I think everyone who had a Peony bush in their yards were always worrying about the blooms for Memorial Day, especially before WW11 when those of us who lived close to St. Marys didn't have much money to spend on flowers for the graves. MK

Memories; remember the Dennison Crepe paper books on making flowers and costumes? How I would love to have copies now. We spent weeks before Memorial Day making individual flowers(before the days of the Plastic ones , now the"silk" ones) in case the frost or other events ruined the real one. Mowers respected the tributes , too. If I remember correctly few florist had refrigeration. Iris and Peony, Occasionally Forsythia or Spiriea. My great Grandparent Grave site still has a huge live deep red Peony bush,covers their site and two grandsons. They are incorrectly identified as sons, German is hard to read by some. Bud. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 1:53 PM Subject: Re: [KansasCity] Mount St. Mary's Cemetery - Memories of Memorial Day > I think everyone who had a Peony bush in their yards were always worrying > about the blooms for Memorial Day, especially before WW11 when those of us who > lived close to St. Marys didn't have much money to spend on flowers for the > graves. MK > > > ==== KansasCity Mailing List ==== > [email protected] > List Administrator > John O'Brien > [email protected] > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >