ARMISTICE DAY WREATHS
BRITISH FLORIST’S REVELATION. The British Legjon’s poppy factory, which, uses magnolia leaves from Italy, is now beginning to preserve its own leaves for Armistice Day wreaths. However, thousands of wreaths sold in England, according to Air. S. Allen, a wholesale Smithfield florist, aro made from magnolia leaves bought in France and Italy, by Germans, who dye and export them to England, adversely affecting the British laurel-growers. When one woman discovered that the leaves camo from Germany she cancelled an order for a wreath for her son’s grave in favour of an all-British one
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 December 1930, Page 3
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96ARMISTICE DAY WREATHS Taranaki Daily News, 3 December 1930, Page 3
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