Flowers or no flowers

[Nigel Bryant]

Hi,
Were there any flowers decorated on the tables of the first-class dining saloon? There must have been something there to dress up the tables, since there were no table lamps.

Regards Nigel

 

[Rolf Vonk]

Hi Nigel,

I think it's almost sure that there were flowers on the tables, though I have no source which can prove that. I believe there were some passengers who declared at the injury or later that there were beautifull flowers on the tables.

I want to add something to your point. Do you have any idea where the flowers were kept aboard, before they reached the tables. I even don't know if there was a greenhouse onboard. Do you have "Titanic, triumph and tragedy"? On the deckplans by the entrance to the Ritz on B deck, you can see a room with the titel "Fruit and flowers". Does that mean that the flowers were in store?

Regards,
Rolf

 

[Steve Arnold]

According to a passage written by Mahala Douglas, which has been quoted in "Last Dinner on the Titanic" and other texts, the tables in the Ritz restaurant were decorated with pink roses and white daisies.

 

[Michael H. Standart]

On "G" Deck, aft, on the port side of the center line is a space marked "Passangers fruit and flowers". It's just accross the passageway from the Milk and Butter storeroom and forward of the Bacon Ham And Cheese storeroom.

Source; Eaton and Haas deckplans in Titanic, Triumph and Tragedy.

Cordially,
Michael H. Standart

 

[Daniel Rosenshine]

As far as I was aware, the tables in the "Ritz" were decorated by pink roses and daisies, or with daffodils (different bouquets at different tables), whilst the tables in the dining saloon were adorned with baskets of fresh fruit. I'm guessing there may also have been flowers on the tables in the dining room on D deck, but which I don't know.

Daniel.

 

[Mike Herbold]

There's a full chapter in "Titanic Voices" entitled: Provisioning -- "A Ship Full of Flowers". Unfortunately the pictures are all black and white, but you can get a feel for the different flowers -- Lady Duff-Gordon remembered a big vase of beautiful daffodils -- and a little bit of information on the Bealing company that provided them to White Star.