The Washington times., 1922-08-11
AMERICAN
.KNOWSHOW TO
!. SEND DFL0WERS
SubtIeties Of Fragrant Gifts
Closed Book to Europeans.
Says Girl Expert.
BY wINIFRED VAN DUZER.
Universal Service.

Universal Service.
NEW YORK, Aug. 1i.-It is only
the American who knows how 70
SAY II with flowerB.~
The Frenchman sends his sweet
heart many a gorgeous bouquet. But
II is Just that--a bouquet--with no
subtleties OF expression; no particu.
lar implication for one lady that II
might not hold for many another.
. The Australian picks out what ne
likes and ships that along. on the
theory that the recipient VIII Ike
II as well.
The Englishman runs to quantity
and no bouquets are so massive as
those he sends round when all the
time there is more meaning In a
single little bloom OF the right sort
than in a whole garden OF hlt-and-
miss flowers.
These are some Of the ideas OF
little Lady who holds the most unique,
up-to-date and Perhaps essential job
in this city.
She is Miss Irene Hayes. dictator
Of fashions In flowers!
Flower Education.
Miss Hayes is planning cam.
paign OF flower education. But re-
Gently returned from a trip abroad
which she took for the purpose OF
adding to her own ideas, what the
florists abroad already had dis
covered In the science OF flower CIV
ing. d.
But alas for the European touch
In America! Our own knowledge Of
the flower language 10 30 much
more intimate. our Flower sense
30 much more delicate. that little
Miss Hayes has decided to lead In
making New York the worlds flow.
er center, just as Brussels II first
in laces, and Paris In styles and so
on. .
Remembering the old-fashioned
flower garden up In Connecticut
where she played as a little girl
with her copper colored hair In curfs
down her back, Miss Hayes insists
THAT there Is more In flower psychol.
ogy than most OF US dream. She
explained:
"The right flowers are like god.
mothers: they always are working
good for somebody. But the others
are mischievous.
you see history would have been
written differently II some flower
psychologist had been about to see
that the right blossoms were In the
proper place at the proper time.
Supposing, for example, that Nero
had been surrounded with the gen.
tie influence Of lilacs and acacin---
do you think he'd have burned
Royae7 a.
And Antony. Why II larkspur
and asters and few sweet peas had
grown in Egypt. he'd have remem.
bered his wife so vlvidly as never,
never TO have fallen victim TO the
wiles OF the siren, whose personality
no doubt was like one of the vicious
green and gold orchids that feed on
poisonsr' ... ..
Colors Indexed.
Miss Hayes has certain colors and
flowers indexed to III certain occa.
sions. Bright colored blossoms for
table decorations insure a sprightly
dinner. But the delicate shadiDgs,
the mist blue OF mignonette or for
get-me-not, or the subdued gold OF
pansies makes direct emotional ap.
peal II you would seem cryptic and
remote surround yourself with these.
or course; most Of us are familiar
with the 'I.love-you' rose. the gor.
geous American Beauty, queen Of the
garden, and what II stands for. But
not all of us know that one rose
carries more significance than a box
full!
Yellow daisies. she continued. are
reason enough for a lovers quarrel.
For the sending OF them IL direct ad.
mission that the sender is flirting.
But violets are peace makers; he
sure to send them II you're some
body's beau and have had n quarrel
and wish to let her know that you
were wrong-as, of course. you were!