The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-03-29
EAsTER,s eEAuTY eLooM.
FavOrite Flowers of the Queen Fes-
tiva1 of Christendom.


ers. Nothing is so beautiful as the
great spring miracle, the budding of
life and bloom out Of the bare, brown
branches that seemed like so many
dead things during winter. Every
bright spring day now the crowds of
promenaders. men and women, big
and little, show a responsiveness to the
reawakening of the earth, and florists
windows and sidewalks give promise
of the abundance of flowers soon to be-
Preparations for Easter, the crown of
the flower season, says the Philadel
phia Times, are begun by the florists
many weeks before the day actually
arrives, and the smartest shops in
town are all receiving their orders
now.
! What flowers are the peoples favor
ties? First and foremost the lily, Eas-
:ers symbolic flower. Thousands of
people who buy and enjoy the Bermu
la lilies have little idea what an ex
tensive business the propagation of
these lovely spring flowers has become.
The bulbs are shipped from Bermuda
in great quantities during the autumn
and winter and placed in greenhouses
to be developed into the lovely plant
which has become symbolic of Easter.
AS to the number Of these bulbs now
produced in Bermuda and shipped to
the United States for Easter purposes
1t is said that between 100000 and
100000 bulbs were sent last year.
The enormous quantities of Easter
lilies produced happily place a plant
within the reach of the most modest
purse. This Easter plants can proba-
bly, be secured at all prices varying
from 90 cents upward, so that hun
dreds Of these jewel-like flowers will
shed their purity and beauty in the
humblest of homes.
Easter lilies. however, are not the
only flowers of Eastertide. Perhaps
the most popular flower after the lily
is the aZalea, which is already being
sold in the shops and along the streets.
the prices ranging all the way from So
to wei! on up to $50. The azaleas come
in the double and single varieties and
in colors that deepen from snowy white
through the most delicate pinks to a
vivid rose and deep crimson.
Roses will be depended upon largely
this Easter, while lilacs, the very ex-
pensive product Of the greenhouse and
lilies Of the valley. hyacinths. margue
rites and very effective yellow daisy
which appears early in the spring will
all be very popular Easter favorites.
Easter being the queen festival oil
Christianity. flowers are a chosen me
dunn for the expression of philanthrop
ic incinations at this season. You have
the reputation Of being a good natured
well meaning man, or you are kline
hearted woman. Then remember thu
children in the hospitals, who canno
share in the sunshine and spring skie
of Easter day, and the grownup sicl
also, for you never saw a man or wo
man who was too old to appreciate
flower, and the dear people in the oil
folks home, who have few Casters ye
to come, and in remembering them
At last a heavenly hand
Give thee. give thee.
Lilies of eternal peace.
r It is pity that the flowers will nc
comply with the needs of the Easte
festival and bloom two months earle
than usual, but happily for the luxur
GUS Christians of the modern worl
our florists know how to create an al
: titicial spring to match the imaginar
moon, and they also know how to in
port from tropical islands the flower
that bloom in their spring a thousan
miles away.
= All through this snowy and frost
y winter fields Of lilies have been grow
ing for us in Bermuda and are now ez
haling their fragrance in city greer
houses The early Easter, therefor,
= will not lack it's tlowery offerings, nc
!, would it lack them If it should com
in the middle of January.
- The flowers that salute the mornin
- of this beautiful festival connect U
g with the remotest recorded antiquit,
- The oldest Egyptian tombs bear test
II mony, both in their pictures and
a their inscriptions, that 1000 years az
II human beings made the same use {
= flowers in the religious festival of til
+. spring that we do in 1902.
n Before Pharaoh reigned the easter
n people placed flowers upon such altar
IN as they had in token of gratitude an
v. gladness. Wreaths and garlands {
v. flowers were hung in the temple
20 Bouquets and mounds and pyramids {
Of flowers were employed precisely g
they are with us.
st At private feasts a bouquet was o
tn fered to each guest on his arrival, an
in we perceive that it was a polite OIL
1T servance for guests to exchange flov
50 ers selected from their bouquets.
o. would be difficult to think of any us
10 of flowers made by us, whether in Or
id yate entertainments or in public Ger
or monials, which was not perfectly Fl
ne miliar to civilized peoples before IL
an pyramids were built.
lie If in some of our conspicuous churcl
ne es there is ostentation or excess in Il