Easter in Buenos Aires, A Feast of Flowers

1915--

Easter in Buenos Aires, the capital of the Argentine Republic, is literally a feast of flowers. Nowhere else in the entire world, perhaps, are they seen in such rich and fragrant profusion as there on that greatest of church feasts. The entire city, it seems, sends gifts of flowers to friends and loved ones on Easter morning -- dainty, sweet-smelling violets, both white and purple, lilies of the purest white and gold, camillas, white roses and pomegranate blossoms.

The houses are decorated with wondrous floral displays and the altars in the churches are fairly loaded down with the beautiful blooms. Everyone wears a flower of some sort on Easter day, the women seeming to prefer white violets and the men a rosebud or a boutonniere of choice blooms. Flowers are indeed appropriate reminders of Easter and its message, and in Buenos Aires they are particularly effective.

--The Edwardsville Intelligencer, Edwardsville, Illinois, April 3, 1915, page 3.