Wedding Wreaths Of The World

The wreatli which graces the head of a bride on her wedding day has been stmg by more poets, even the great onos like Schiller, than auy other chaplet of fanie or honor. In the early days the Jews saw in the wreath a sign of what for them was the most beautiful and precious- the promised land - and of the myrtle the bridal crown was woven. Later this myrtle wreath beoame the symbol of womanly purity and as such is worn by every girl bride in Germany. In many parts of Germany the sprigs f rom which the wreath shall be twined mnst be taken at a fixed hour of the night between certain holy days. And in both Denmark and Germany families possess myrtle trees which have for quite a generation or more furnished the bridal wreaths at f amily weddings. In Greece the myrtle and the rose were considered the favorite flowers of Vernis, the twining of the two together signifying the unión of love and virtue. In England, in France and in Poland, as in America, the orange blossom reigns supreme in wedding chaplets. In Italy the white rose has taken the place of the evergreen and fragrant myrtle wreath. In Spain it is the red, red rose that adorna a bride, and Portugalés wedding flower i is the