Flowers?

[B.M. SHUTTLEWORTH]

I've no definite experience of this in Russia, but when I was in
Poland in 1984-5 it was made clear to me that to give anyone an even
number of flowers was the height of bad form.  The only exception to
this was if you gave twelve flowers, in which case any breach of
etiquette was presumably more than adequately compensated for by the
sheer generosity of the offering.

Mark Shuttleworth
Department of Modern Slavonic Studies
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
UK
rusms at leeds.ac.uk