. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. ai The Floruits'Review Mabch 13, 1913. movable date, and how the exact date is fixed, they tell us that it is fixed by the "ideal tnoon" adopted many cen- turies ago by the church. There is •.1: not a great deal of difference between -Sf'* the "true moon" and the "ideal "-''^ - inpo4^* in their phases, but sometimes the "true moon" may just miss the "ecclesiastical ; When it comes to fijguring just where the difference lies you touch upon a pretty complicated astronomical subject. It is safe to
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. ai The Floruits'Review Mabch 13, 1913. movable date, and how the exact date is fixed, they tell us that it is fixed by the "ideal tnoon" adopted many cen- turies ago by the church. There is •.1: not a great deal of difference between -Sf'* the "true moon" and the "ideal "-''^ - inpo4^* in their phases, but sometimes the "true moon" may just miss the "ecclesiastical ; When it comes to fijguring just where the difference lies you touch upon a pretty complicated astronomical subject. It is safe to say, however, that Easter comes on the first Sunday- after the first full moon after March 21. Or, to put it another way, Easter is the first Sunday occurring after the first full moon, or more ac- curately, after the first fourteenth day of the moon following the vernal equi- nox. The vernal equinox invariably falls March 21, so that the Easter festival cannot come earlier than March 22 or later than April 25. Not since 1856 has Lent come in sp early as it did this year, and not for ninety-five years more will we have so early a Lent and Easter. Some day we hope it will not be a movable feast. Florists are not the only ones who would like Easter given a fixed date, and there is a strong and growing move- ment toward such a change. BASKET or LILIES. The basket of Easter lilies is-the one indispensable feature of an Easter dec- oration, no matter where or for what. It is an arrangement every florist will be called on to make times without closely together that they show no in- dividuality. The accompanying illus- tration is interesting as showing a well proportioned arrangement of lilies with pussy-willows. It was by E. L. John- son, Palmer, Mass. , . , ^ Why flowees wilt. Flowers wilt because of the collapse of the individual cells of which they are made^ up. So long as these cells are distended the flowers remain fresh. This distention is due to osmotic pres- sure. If the o
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