Flowering Sunday

Photos of Newport event in 1888

Flowering Sunday in Wales — known in Church circles as Palm Sunday and as Blossom Sunday in England — saw the custom of decorating graves with flowers. An account of the 1888 event in Newport recorded that the display at the New Cemetery was not as great as in former years:

“Neither was the attendance of visitors so numerous, doubtless being attributable to the unfavourable state of the weather. Some had taken the precaution to have the flowers there on Saturday night, and of course, in consequence of the subsequent snowfall, they were…