. A family flight around home. lly speak-ing, a flower nearly allied to the buttercup. In fact, it is a stoutbuxom buttercup, with thick stems, broad leaves and good, honest,bright yellow flowers, rather coarse to examine, but with plenty ofsunshine in them. The proper popular name for it is marshmarigold, but as it is no more like a garden marigold, than itis like an English cowslip, it may as well .keep the prettiername. The English cowslip is a primrose, and is much like the pinkprimroses easily raised here in pots, but where it grows wild itseeks the open pasture, while primroses hide them
. A family flight around home. lly speak-ing, a flower nearly allied to the buttercup. In fact, it is a stoutbuxom buttercup, with thick stems, broad leaves and good, honest,bright yellow flowers, rather coarse to examine, but with plenty ofsunshine in them. The proper popular name for it is marshmarigold, but as it is no more like a garden marigold, than itis like an English cowslip, it may as well .keep the prettiername. The English cowslip is a primrose, and is much like the pinkprimroses easily raised here in pots, but where it grows wild itseeks the open pasture, while primroses hide themselves in hedges,or in the shade and shelter of the woods. Cowslips, as well asprimroses, are favorites of the poets. Milton calls them Cowslips wan that hang the pensive head; a description full of truth, for the English cowslip is essentially a jOO A FAMILY FLIGHT AROUND HOME. pale hanging flower, unlike our sturdy marigold, which keeps well up to the sun. Hubert was a Httle persistent in defence of his own cowslip,. THE WILLOW ROAD. while these, he said, were nothins but at home,.where they grew in plenty. Mr. Bruce came to the rescue when the quarrel was grown^g dangerous. , . Shakespeares name for the marsh marigold is the prettiest. DcAibtlcss he means your mare-blob in the lines — Winking mary-buds beginTo ope their golden eyes ! Con,p,o,„ises are never agreeable, but the diseussiou was }t ln„k ulaee in the middle of a wet meadow, where and
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