floral decoration

Art of arranging living or dried plant material for adornment of the body or home, for public and religious ceremonies, or for festivals. Line, form, colour, texture, balance, porportion, and scale are important aspects of floral arrangement, as is the container. The earliest pictorial example is a 2nd-century Roman mosaic from the villa of Hadrian at Tivoli depicting a basket of cut flowers. Dutch and French still-life paintings of the 17th–18th centuries show the popularity of floral arrangements. Their long history in China and Japan is often associated with religious and philosophical beliefs; Japanese forms have become influential in the West. Seealso ikebana.

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Floral is famous for two things: a grain elevator, built in 1927, that stands to this day, but mostly as the birthplace of one of the greatest hockey players of all time--Gordie "Mr. Hockey" Howe. Howe was born March 31, 1928 in Floral and attended King George School in Saskatoon, playing on their ice hockey team in the 1940's as a goalie.

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Historical education

Area statistics

• Lat (DMS) 52° 04' 00" N
• Long (DMS) 106° 28' 00" W
• Dominion Land Survey Tsp. 36 Rge. 4 W3
• Time zone (est) UTC-6

External links

• Floral profile at ePodunk.com
• Article on Howe that mentions Floral
• Saskatchewan Gen Web - One Room School Project
• Post Offices and Postmasters - ArchiviaNet - Library and Archives Canada
• Saskatoon Gen Web Region
• Saskatchewan, Canada, Rand McNally 1924 Indexed Pocket Map Tourists' and Shippers' Guide
• GeoNames Query
• Canadian Maps: January 1925 Waghorn's Guide. Post Offices in Man. Sask. Alta. and West Ontario.
• Riversdale and Beyond