BUTTERCUPS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAIt. Sib,— Oh !My dear Mr Barton, I would not have believed it of you (especially as you possess two bonnie boys), and must strongly protest against your advocacy in this evening's Star for grubbing up this plant, the flowers of which have been of such infinite delight to generations of English children as well as of adults, and with which you will not find an English meadow that is not carpeted with its yellow and golden blossoms during the spring and summer months. Although I resided in the midst of English country meadows for close upon 60 years before coming to this colony, I never heard the slightest complaint of the buttercup injuring the pastures. The buttercup (ranunculus acris) is certainly of an acrid nature, and will produce blisters on the mouths of cattlo if they partake of it, which, however, they rarely do, although it is said that skeep and goats will eat it. When it is made into hay its noxious qualities disappear. It was a great deprivation to me on arriving in the colony to miss the daisies and buttercups of England? What do you say to this, Mr Barton ? Your answer may probably be, " You had better have stopped at Home," and perhaps you would be right. I am, etc.,
Saul. Goodbehere Feilding, Ist December, 1893.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 131, 2 December 1893, Page 2
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