Goddess of Flowers and Fairy Soap
The Rites of Spring, the rebirth of natures cycle of life, are celebrated at the end of April and the beginning of May with Floraila festivals of dancing and drinking and in many countries children dancing around the Maypole.
The Roman figurehead was the Goddess Flora always bedecked with flowers her name in modern English is representative of plants and flowers. Here she is pictured in the 1898 Floral Calendar of Fairbanks the original manufacturers of Fairy Soap