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me group now mciuaea uoi Estes, Jean McNear, Quita Parrish, Mrs. Williamson, Mrs. Snead, Mrs. Pillar and Mrs. Davis. “We started holding symposiums to teach new arrangers,” she said. “Some of those who had dried the flowers didn’t want the beginners tearing their work up. If you don’t dry, you don’t realize the time and effort it takes.” The delicate flowers that add a touch of elegance to dried arrangements ~ peonies, roses, larkspur, delphinium — “require much more effort,” she explained. “They’re a real challenge.” And all flowers, both hard and easy dryers, are affected by climatic conditions. “One season, they’ll dry beautifully, and another season, they won’t dry at all,” Mrs. Davis noted. “Sometimes, it’s disastrous,” she said. The flowers come out of the drying medium - sand, borax or commeal - and fall to pieces, rotted or eaten by bugs.
In the early 1960’s, the arrangers t began enlisting help from children, * 10 to 15 year-olds who could turn out a $3.50 arrangement in an hour, Mrs. Davis related. “Then, when they went away to school, we got their mothers. That’s how we got Christine (Johnston), the champion maker of all time!”
Matilda Walker, Louise Eastham and Julia Settle joined. “Through the years, we’ve had a lot of people who helped us,” Mrs. Davis recalled,
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