"A Bed of Roses"—Not Bulrushes
Dear Aunt Daisy, I read your Page in The Listener every week, and noticed a week or so ago someone who had written to say she stuffs her pillows with bulrushes. I wonder if she would give a few more particulars about it, as I would like to try it? What time of the year do they have to be gathered, and do they have to be put through any process such as drying, etc.? I would be very grateful for more information and will watch for a reply in The
Listener as we cannot get the ZB Stations here in daylight. -"Golliwog" (Cromwell). It was rose petals, not bulrushes, which the lady used to stuff her pillow with — just dried rose petals. It took her all one summer to collect enough for one, and to get them thoroughly dry-so it would take a good while to make the proverbial Bed of Roses! I do not know anything about using the fluffy tops of bulrushes, but I should think that if it is possible at all we shall be sure to find out all about it from some Link in our well-in-formed Daisy Chain. Here is another note about a rose petal cushion:
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 87, 21 February 1941, Page 46
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