The flowers lay bundled with greenery, forming 21 loose bouquets spread apart on the tables.
Then, simultaneously, 21 pairs of hands seized scissors and knives and began trimming and pruning, then stabbing the stems into pieces of foam in the small baskets in front of them.
"You don't have to use every single flower that's given to you," called out Susan Krabill, superintendent of the Delaware State Fair's flower department. "Whatever you feel comfortable with."
Lined up at the tables in a room off the exhibit hall early Saturday morning were eight boys and 13 girls, ages 8 to 15, vying for bragging rights to be Delaware's top floral artist in the fair's annual flower arranging competition.
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This should give us all hope that the next generation will carry on.
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