BUTTERCUPS AND COWSLIPS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 135, 7 December 1893, Page 2

BUTTERCUPS AND COWSLIPS.

TO THE EDITOR OF TDK STAR. Sib,— l wonder whether Mr H. H. Knowles has ever tasted good, home-made sparkling cowslip wine. If not, I pity him. He evidently has no knowledge whatever of the " buttercup," which belongs to ranunctilus oricrowfoot order of plants, whereas the " cowslip " belongs to the primulacex or primrose order. If Mr Barton looked upon my first letter as ridicule, although I should think it must only have amused him, I have in my second letter fully made the amende honorable, and if by this I am offending Mr Knowles' amour pwpre I hereby apologise in advance. lam quite ready to admit that the plant, which 1 expect is that which was referred to by Mr barton and that which Mr Knowles calls a " cow* slip," is capable of doing all the damage those gentlemen complain of, but I will not listen patiently to a word said against the true buttercup, or the cowslip either. If Mr Knowles was ever taught it when a child, has he forgotton the following nursery rhyme ? : — I thank you pretty cow that gave, Pleasant milk to soak my bread ; . Do not choose the Hemlook rank, Growing on the weedy bank ; But the yellow cowslip eat, That will make it nice and sweet. Not that I ever .heard that cows are fond of cowslips. I am, etc., — Sash,. Goodbehere, Feilding, December 6th.