Carnations For Princess
One of the appealing sidelights of the Royal wedding, and one to strike a kindred note with New Zealand flower-lovers, was the preliminary part played by the British Carnation Society. + It was a privilege of this group to provide the floral decorations for the wedding reception. Everyone of the 1400 members wanted to claim his share, so the massed and fragrant mountain of carnations began to rise. From Welsh coalfields they came, from hothouses of rich city members, and from under sheltering pots in suburban gardens. Some were even grown in the warm atmosphere of kitchens. A special lot arrived from the gardens of the Princess Royal, while one keen member attached to the R.A.F. controlled the growing of his blooms by wireless. Able to note the change of temperature while he was flying, he used to flash advice to his station to turn th eheat on or off in his glasshouse.
Most of the carnations sent in were pink as a tribute to the Princess’s favourite colour, while the enw/ est and rarest is to bear her name.
It fell to the lot of the secretary of the society to assemble the blooms on arrival in London and to present them at Buckingham Palace.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 12, 13 January 1948, Page 6
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208Carnations For Princess Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 12, 13 January 1948, Page 6
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