DAFFODILS
GOVERNOR-GENERAL’S COMMENT
WELLINGTON, Sep. 21
The possibility of a New Zealand tlower being brought by cultivation to the magnificence and popularity of tbe daffodil was referred to bp the Gov-ernor-General (Lord Bledisloe) jn opening the Hutt Valley Horticultural Society’s spring show to-day.
“As I look down on this exhibition of daffodils,” his Excellency, “ I cannot help wondering at the wealth ana perfection in size and colour to which what was once a simple bloom in English meadows lias now been raised. Time was when the daffodil was regardad was hardly worth a place n the garden, and there may b* a humble yet beautiful flower native to your country which is to be found on the hillsides or iir the bush, and which, by similar breeding and selection may be advanced to a standard equal to the magnificence and popularity of the daffodil. I would suggest to enterprising nurserymen that there may be New Zealand plants worthy of greater scientific .development than they have yet received, and the day may come when we shall find not only in New Zealand gardens, but also in English gardens, a large number of your own native plants.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1933, Page 4
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