Domestic Floriculture: Window-Gardening and Floral Decorations, Being Practical Directions for the Propagation, Culture, and Arrangement of Plants and Flowers As Domestic Ornaments (Classic Reprint)

Bright gems of earth, by which perchance we see What Eden was what Paradise may be. jjLORAL decorations, in the form of wreaths and garlands, have been popular for ages, and the use of cut blossoms and foliage for religious or personal ornaments is a time-honoured custom of high antiquity among the more refined nations of both hemispheres. The rosygoddess Flora was reverenced by the Phocians andS abines long before the foundation of the Roman capital; and we read that in the time of Romulus an annual festival was instituted in her honour, and as a kind of rejoicing at the appearance of the spring blossoms. But it was not until about 500 years afterwards that the Floral Games, or Floralia, were regularly established. The May-day festivals, so attractive to our ancestors, were doubtless originated in this country by the Romans themselves; and so popular were these vernal rejoicings at one time, that not only the people, but the sovereign and the court, took part in their celebration.
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