IT IS DAFFODIL TIME

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22515, 24 September 1938, Page 4 (Supplement)

IT IS DAFFODIL TIME

• To-morrotv is Daffodil Simday. The golden, dancing daffodils in the Christchurch Botanic Gardens are quite excited. . Late blossoms are hurrying to open their petals in time. “To-morrow is Daffodil Sunday ” they. say. “We must not be late.”

This is the firsf time that “Daffodil Sunday” has, been celebrated in New Zealand. “Daffodil Sunday” is an institution in London, where the people hurry to the Kew Gardens to see the blooms on that particular day. There is “Lilac Sunday," there, too. . The daffodils are a .vision of splendour this year. They are

blooming everywhere in the gardens. You see them showing gold in the grass under the trees.' Acres of them, it seems. And they are in the gardens and in unexpected spots. They will be blooming for you all next week. Next year you might plant daffodils under the trees in your garden

a»d hold a "Daffodil Day" in your own-home.-And—this is what Mr McPherson, the curator at the Botanic Gardens, told Lady Gay. He said: “Girls and boys, nowadays, respect and . love- flowers. Not a single daffodil has-been picked or spoiled,” Lady - Gay feels proud, and you should be proud, too!