Won't do it any good.....but maybe that's a good use for it? I have an old silver plated bowl....of the sort meant to hold a glass liner. Bought it for $1 or less at an auction. I use it to nestle small potted plants in, as a center piece. Someone said to me a few years badk ..."you're going to ruin that lovely dish!"...I decided I was never going to serve mashed potatoes in it and it might as well be a flower bowl....and so it is! But the inside is decidely cruddy! However with your pitcher....a mayo jar or a tall glass would serve to keep the flower stems wet and the inside of the pitcher in good enough condition to use for water again sometime. "knowlegable Linda C!!" Wow! You made my day!!....polishing my nails on my lapel!

Been there.....done that.....never really got the stain out....now I monitor lilies very carefully and remove the anthers ( where the pollen is) as soon as the flower starts to open. No clorox on antique linen.....but I would put it in a basin or tub or something with a good stiff solution of an oxygen bleach.....and an enzyme cleaner....like biz....for the oxy bleach oxy clean, snowy or any of the others that don't contain anything but an oxygen bleach.... Then let it soak for days and days if necessary....keep the stained part on top so you can see it without having to lift the whole thing out of the water..... When it's as gone as it's going to get, lift the cloth out carefully, supporting from the bottom and rinse in a sink with running water. Handle it gently....it's been soaking a long time and the fibers are wet and weak. let the water run and press on it with your hands.....when it's rinsed, squeeze ( don't wring!) and press excess water out in a towel or 2 or 3....carefully lay flat to dry. If that doesn't do it try stretching the stain ( with the cloth dry) over a bowl, sprinkling with fresh lemon juice, sprinkle salt over that and pour boiling water from a height through the cloth. Don't get your hopes up.....pollen is about the worst! I got some in my fancy German car, lily tipped and stained the carpet! 9 years later, when I sold it, the buyer asked about it....lily pollen I said! LOL! he didn't believe me! Good luck....after the soak, your cloth won't be as "ecru" as it was....but at least it will be all the same....but for the stain. Let us know the outcome. Linda C

In deference to my lovely hostess and chauffeur, I posted the picture which made me appear to be in pain rather than the one in which Cathy looked like an old wicked witch and me look like a sweet happy young girl!..... ( now I am really in trouble! She's close enough that she could come and GET me!!!!)

Glad you're ok Linda! Cathy, you are a sweetheart to think of me! We definitely had some torrential rains last night - it poured and thundered, waking me up around 4 am. We've had some really heavy rains in the Houston area over the last two weeks and lots of flooding. In my immediate vicinity, there was lots of high water on the roads, especially on the freeway feeders. The bayou near my house was about 5-6 feet from cresting as I passed by it on the way to work at 7 am. And my side of town is not the worst of it. West of us the flooding is even worse. Fortunately I only drove through one spot of probably 6" of water on the way to work this morning. There was lots of traffic as high water blocked many routes but aside from that my drive to work was without incident. My biggest concerns are driving IN the rain when it's coming down in sheets as it was in the wee hours, and driving through high water, which I will never (again!) do. Luckily neither of these things happened today. We're supposed to get more rain this afternoon. I'm hoping that by that time much of the water will have receeded. I'm due to get a pedicure right after work and I need groceries... so I hope I don't have to swim to those two errands!! LOL