Flowers?

[H.P. Houtzagers]

> I would like to know whether the odd-number flower custom is
Central- and
>  Eastern-European, or maybe even general European. Certainly in Germany it
 would
>  be a grave faux pas to offer someone an even number of flowers.

The custom is not restricted to Eastern or even Central Europe: we
also know it in Holland. My mother taught me never to give someone an
odd number of flowers under ten.

Peter Houtzagers




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Dr. H. Peter Houtzagers, Slavic Department, Groningen University,
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