Flowers

(1980 memoirs)
[Chores for the Clapps] might include getting flowers from the greenhouse to the church Saturdays.  By providing flowers every Sunday, they always got their names in the weekly leaflet of the Congregational Church, tho of course it was splendid of them to do it; and tho it advertised, was also costly and I am sure often a lot of work.  The kind of flower and what was ready blooming was often a topic of discussion at dinners.