FLOWERS, in antiquity. We find flowers in great request at the entertainments of the ancients, being provided by the master of the feast, and brought in before the second course; or, as some are of opinion, at the beginning of the entertainment. They not only adorned their heads, necks, and breasts, with flowers, but often bestrewed the beds whereon they lay, and all parts of the room with them. But the head was chiefly regarded. See GARLAND.
Flowers were likewise used in the bedecking of tombs. See BURIAL.
Eternal FLOWER. See XERANTHEMUM.
Everlasting FLOWER. See GNAPHALIUM.