Abstract: A holder for a water saturable block of the kind used for holding the stems of cut flowers, greenery and the like in floral displays. A preferred holder is box-like and watertight, except for a hole in the central portion of its top wall for receiving water and into which a water saturable block is insertable. Lips at the edge of the hole slope toward the bottom wall of the holder and laterally inward toward the center of the hole for fixedly holding a block in the hole, retarding water leakage out of the holder past the block, helping guide insertion of a block into the hole, reinforcing the edge of the hole and helping retain water in the holder upon tilting of the holder with or without a block in the hole. Depending legs at the corners of the holder help support it on, for example, flat table tops or convex casket tops.