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Show An Easter egg by any other name would taste just as delicious, but the world over the people are creatures of habit, so at Easier and around Easter only we have the chocolate and jelly eggs. The association of fiaster and eggs goes back to heathen times, says one authority. "It seems as If the eg&- was thus decorated dec-orated for an Easter trophy, after the days of rftortilication and abstinence were over and festivity had taken their place, and as an emblem of the resurrection resur-rection of life, as certified to us by the resurrection from the regions of death and the grave. Not only do we find this- record of the use of eggs among the practices of the Egyptians, the ancient an-cient Israelites and the early Christians, Chris-tians, but De Gobelin informs us that the custom of using eggs' at Easter may be traced up not only to the theology the-ology of the people of Egypt, but to the theology and philosophy of the Persians, Per-sians, the Gauls, the Greeks and the Romans, all of whom regarde.d the egg as an emblem of the universe and the work of the Supreme Divinity." The Christians have used eggs on Easter day as containing the elements of future life, symbolic of the resurrection. resur-rection. Painted or ornamented eggs have become in many lands an Easter institution. As for the bunny, the chicken and the kewpie,. they all play their part in modern Easter gifts. The bunny or hare owes its popularity to the belief be-lief of the German children that it Is the hare who lays the eggs on Easter day. Easter always brings a profusion of flowers, with the lily the most popular of all. "In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was horn" has an additional meaning when one sees lilies on every side. The fact that a Philadelphian introduced the Bermuda lily to this country adds more interest to this ever-Interesting subject. In 1880, so the story runs, a young man from the Bermudas was visiting in that city, and upon seeing a lily, exclaimed: "Oh, there is our lily." However, upon elope examination he found that It was not a Bermuda lily. This incident inci-dent led to a Philadelphia florist visit-ine visit-ine Bermuda in 1881 and bringing the bulbs to this country. We all know its popularity. No wonder, for if is superior to both the Chinese and Egyptian (or calla) : It is a surer bloomer and more profuse; It also has a greater fragrance. Now the lily industry in the United States is thriving. Millions upon millions mil-lions are grown from Florida to California. Cali-fornia. In these climes they are grown under glass, in fact a veritable lily king plants a half a million bulbs this way. But in enthusiasm for the lily, the rhododendron, the azalea, the spirea, tulip, hyacinth, daffodil, narcissus, ferns and the many others must not be forgot nor their charms overlooked. |