YELLOW AND ORANGE WILD FLOWERS 
immortalized by the Christians during the Middle 
Ages, who dedicated this flower to Mary, the Mother 
of Jesus. The name was originally Mary’s Gold, 
and Shakespeare refers to it in Cymbeline, where 
the musicians sing: 
“Hearke, hearke, the Lark at Heaven’s gate sings, and 
Pheebus gins arise, 
His steeds to water at those Springs on chalic’d Flowers that lyes: 
And winking Mary-buds begin to ope their golden eyes: 
With everything that pretty is, my Lady sweet, arise. 
Arise, arise.” 
It is just as well to know, however, that the names 
Marigold and Cowslip are more commonly and truth- 
fully applied to altogether different species. Mari- 
golds, as almost everyone knows, are the favourite, 
old-fashioned, coarse-smelling, rough-and-ready gar- 
den flowers which delighted our grandmothers, while 
the Cowslips are, in reality, a species of Primrose. 
Do you wonder what’s in a name? The scientific 
name, Caltha, means cup, and falus, a marsh — 
hence Marsh Cup, a name which has some real signi- 
ficance, and is aptly applied. The Marsh Marigolds 
flourish along the wet borders of streams and marshes, 
where the roots are more or less in the water and the” 
ground is springy and wet. Early in April the beau- 
tiful, bright yellow cups of the flowers reflect the glory 
of the sun from amid a thrifty, bushy c_ump of crisp, 
glossy green leaves. They blossom in great pro- 
fusion, and their attractive flowers are gathered in the 
spring, tied in bunches, and sold along the streets of 
our larger cities as Cowslips. The entire plant, root, 
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