WALES AND THE DAFFODIL
For some curious reason Lord Tullibardine has been protesting gieat concern at the selection of tho daffodil m place of tho leek a* the emblem of Wrtlcs on tho National Insurance Btatnp On 21st October, in the House of Commons, ho questioned tho Chancellor of the Exchequer on tho Btibject. Before Mr. Lloyd George could reply, Mr, Llewelyn Wilhnms, K.C., an authority oh Welch hWnvy, nsked Inn Right Hon. friend if tho Welsh name for daffodil 'ib nol. "Coninon Pecir" (Peter's leek), and tvnether it i* not. due to a blunder of Shakespeare or Bacon, or porno equnlly ignorant .Saxon —(laughter)— that thn Welsh national emblem was changed from a flagrant flower into a stinking vegetable? (Great latighlei ) The Chancellor Btnilingly declined to enter into tlietiv recondite matten-, ?nd PKitl it, was Ruflicicnt for liini that the t'aftodil was ti«>i!tl as thu Wulf.li nvtional 'tnbleiu oil tho ou-iifioli of the un crtiUue of the l'nncc of AA»lc& at C'aiiwnmi.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 138, 7 December 1912, Page 19
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