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2. Decoration Day (tradition) - Wikipedia

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   Grave decorations have historically incorporated flowers as well as crafts and mementos. Scholar Barbara Graham connects Cemetery Sunday traditions to the Decoration Day traditions of Appalachia and Liberia as many Irish and Scotch-Irish refugees and other immigrants from Ireland settled in Central and Southern Appalachia.

3. Flowering Sunday - Wikipedia

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   According to historical documentation gathered by Early Tourists in Wales, there are two distinct but related Welsh cemetery decoration traditions relating to the placing of flowers and other plants. The first cemetery decoration tradition involves decorating the grave immediately after burial and then at intervals afterwards, meaning that ...

4. Cemetery Sunday - Wikipedia

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   Cemetery decoration often features cut flowers. Homemade crepe paper flowers were also common in early St. James cemetery decoration. [6] Today, artificial flowers are often used. Flowers can be placed on graves in any number of ways, including in patterns. [2]

5. Immortelle (cemetery) - Wikipedia

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   Ceramic Immortelle, Mt Beppo Apostolic Cemetery, 2005. An immortelle is a long-lasting flower arrangement placed on graves in cemeteries.. They were originally made from natural dried flowers (which lasted longer than fresh flowers) or could be made from artificial materials such as china and painted plaster of paris or beads strung on wire arrangements.

6. Cemetery - Wikipedia

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   Cemeteries usually dispose of these flowers after a few weeks in order to keep the space maintained. Some companies offer perpetual flower services, to ensure a grave is always decorated with fresh flowers. [45] Flowers may often be planted on the grave as well, usually immediately in front of the gravestone. For this purpose roses are highly ...

7. Confederate Memorial (Arlington National Cemetery) - Wikipedia

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   The federal government did not permit the decoration of Confederate graves at the cemetery, however. As Quartermaster General, Meigs had charge of the Arlington cemetery (he did not retire until February 6, 1882), [6] and he refused to give families of Confederates buried there permission to lay flowers on their loved ones' graves. [5]