DAFFODIL TIME.
The link between the daffodil and Wales is supposed to date from the time of Henry V.—Harry Tudor, who was essentially a Welsh monarch. He was a native of Monmouth, and many Welsh soldiers followed him to France and Agincourt, where they may well have adopted the “Lent Lily,” one of the many emblems of the French “Fleur-delis,” as a sign of their French victories. The daffodil is a flower of lovely names—what can be more charming than the Old Country ones, “Daffodil,” “Daffvdowndilly,” the names Spenser, Milton and so many others used? It is one of the flowers of the sun, dedicated by the ancient Greeks to Apollo, and its name, in the language of flowers, means “joyfulness.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18659, 30 August 1930, Page 11
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121DAFFODIL TIME. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18659, 30 August 1930, Page 11
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