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The daffodil is the national flower of Wales, where it is traditional to wear a daffodil or a leek on Saint David's Day ( March 1 ).
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Gloucester County is nicknamed the " Daffodil Capital of the World ", and holds an annual daffodil festival, parade, and flower show.
The history of the daffodil in Gloucester County, Virginia, is almost as old as the county itself.
It is from this abundance of natural beauty that grew the extensive daffodil industry which earned the county the title " Daffodil Capital of America " in the 1930s and 40s.
Narcissus () ( commonly called daffodil ) is a genus of mainly hardy, mostly spring-flowering, herbaceous perennials in the Amaryllis family, subfamily Amaryllidoideae.
The German for daffodil is Osterglocke, that is " Easter bell.
The leek is one of the national emblems of Wales, worn along with the daffodil ( in Welsh, the daffodil is known as " Peter's leek ," Cenhinen Bedr ) on St. David ’ s Day.
Wales is primarily represented by the symbol of the red Welsh Dragon, but other national emblems include the leek and daffodil.
Many Welsh people wear one or both of the national emblems of Wales on their lapel to celebrate St. David: the daffodil ( a generic Welsh symbol which is in season during March ) or the leek ( Saint David's personal symbol ) on this day.
The association between leeks and daffodils is strengthened by the fact that they have similar names in Welsh, Cenhinen ( leek ) and Cenhinen Pedr ( daffodil, literally " Peter's leek ").
The national flower in Scotland is the thistle, Northern Ireland the shamrock, and in Wales the daffodil and leek.
::: The springtime sun is as yellow as a daffodil floating in a sea of blue.
" As the movie ends, Ellen is explaining to her father how to plant the daffodil bulbs and he is helping, foreshadowing, it seems, their reconciliation based on mutual long overdue appreciation of Kate.
The daffodil is also the emblem of leading cancer charities in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the Republic of Ireland.
The modern full dress includes a dark blue kepi, yellow fringed epaulettes ( official colour name is daffodil ) and a navy blue cravat ( scarf worn around the neck ).
* Vol de Nuit ( 1933 ): Composed as a tribute to flight, celebrating the novel of the same name by pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Air France, this is a green, semi-oriental chypre with notes of iris, galbanum, daffodil, and oakmoss.
The logo for the Canadian Cancer Society is the daffodil.
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He also added ornate Baroque-style central ceiling mouldings and corner mouldings of the four national flowers of the United Kingdom: rose ( England ), thistle ( Scotland ), daffodil ( Wales ) and shamrock ( Northern Ireland ).
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A daffodil closeup showing the various parts of the flower in detail
As the first flower of spring, the daffodil became a symbol of hope in the fight against cancer and daffodil days fundraising events spread throughout the rest of Canada and amongst cancer organizations around the world, including the American Cancer Society, the Irish Cancer Society and The Cancer Council Australia.
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* The daffodil and the leek are also symbols of Wales.
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It features a 6-mile drive along Ferguson Road, which leads to the Long Tom Grange, where visitors can purchase daffodil bulbs and other goods.
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Though the traditional daffodil of folklore, poetry, and field may have a yellow to golden-yellow color all over, both in the wild species and due to breeding, the perianth and corona may be variously colored.
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The origins of the leek can be traced to the 16th century, while the daffodil became popular in the 19th century, encouraged by David Lloyd-George.
This may be due to confusion of the Welsh for leek, cenhinen, and that for daffodil, cenhinen Bedr or St. Peter's leek.
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The town describes itself as New Zealand's daffodil capital, holding a Daffodil Festival each year on the second Sunday in September.
Either on Palm Sunday or the Holy Saturday, children dress up as witches ( noita ) and go from door to door, giving away daffodil adorned branches of willow in exchange for sweets.
Every spring, on the last weekend in May, participants construct massive floral sculptures made from daffodil blossoms, and parade them through town on large floats, accompanied by regional folk music.
This led to the first daffodil days in the spring of 1957, when Society volunteers in Toronto raised over $ 1, 200 on sales of daffodils.
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On 1 May 2009 a number of schoolchildren fell ill at Gorseland Primary School in Martlesham Heath, Suffolk, England, after a daffodil bulb was added to soup during a cookery class.
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One of the most common dermatitis problems for florists, " daffodil itch " involves dryness, fissures, scaling, and erythema in the hands, often accompanied by subungual hyperkeratosis ( thickening of the skin beneath the nails ).
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-- liberal considers that the need for a national economy with controls that will assure his conception of social justice is so great that individual and local liberties as well as democratic processes may have to yield before it.
Internal national responsibility is a societal response to the impact of the Industrial Revolution.
Already accidental war is a silent guest at the discussions within the Kennedy Administration about the urgency of disarmament and nearly all other questions of national security.
It is well then that in this hour both of `` national peril '' and of `` national opportunity '' we can take counsel with the men who made the nation.
that is, about one-half of one per cent, which looks pretty `` tokenish '' to me, especially in an institution which professes to be `` national ''.
Each is still glorified as a national hero.
This is, however, symptomatic of our national malaise.
Hence government must establish greater controls upon corporations so that their activities promote what is deemed essential to the national interest.
At the national and international level, then, what is the highest kind of morality for the private citizen represents an instance of political immorality.
In this domain the simple fact of coexistence in the same local, national, and world community is enough to guarantee that we cannot refrain from having some effect, large or small, upon Gentile-Jewish relations.
If Jews are identified as a religious body in a controversy that comes before a national or international tribunal, it is obviously compatible with the goal of human dignity to protect freedom of worship.
This, it is urged, would relieve the national committee from the necessity of appealing to the trust magnates.
The alternative to this is that if a conservative candidate is nominated the national committee will have to appeal to the trusts for their campaign funds, and in doing this will incur obligations which would make a Democratic victory absolutely fruitless.
The national average is more than $4 and that figure is considered by experts in the mental health field to be too low.
This is the key fact emerging from Sunday's national election.
Engaged as it is in a battle for world trade as a condition of national survival, this country can have little patience with labor's family feuds.
The concept of labor as a special class is outmoded, and in the task confronting America as bastion of the free world, labor must learn to put the national interest first if it is itself to survive.
But competent observers believe he is making progress, particularly toward what Sen. Jackson lists as the primary need -- `` a clearer understanding of where our vital national interests lie and what we must do to promote them ''.
The move for establishment of a national seashore park on 30,000 acres of Cape Cod, from Provincetown to Chatham, is strengthened by President Kennedy's interest in that area.
Carbondale is in the Herrin-Murphysboro-West Frankfort labor market, where unemployment has been substantially higher than the national average.
In other words, the Secretary General is to be a nonpartisan, international servant, not a political, national one.
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