pbs Digest, Vol 41, Issue 21 bulbs and bouquets indoors
Adam Fikso (Sat, 17 Jun 2006 09:37:21 PDT)

Well, My first thought about bouquets coming indoors was that it was likely
during Neanderthal times just the way it is today when your two year-old
sees dandelions for the first time, a whole field of them, picks them with
great concentration and glee and brings the limp dangling handful to Mom as
the golden gift of the Spring season, who then, finds a way to put them in
water--perhaps a turtle shell or an empty ram's horn serving as a vessel.
Behold-- the beginnings of floriculture.