Flower Sermons are annual discourses founded on some subject connected with flowers. They were first instituted by the rector of the church of St Catharine Cree, London, in 1853. Generally the churches are decked with flowers, which are afterwards sent to hospitals.
Flower Sermons
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 694
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