TANSY FOR EASTER-PUDDINGS 87 



' Soone at Easter cometh Alleluya, 

 With butter, cheese, and a Tansy. 



So runs an old Easter carol. Another song 

 begins thus : 



' On Easter Sunday be the pudding seen. 

 To which the Tansy lends her sober green.** 



We think the Tansy too much of a vagrant to 

 be allowed a footing in the Herb-garden. He 

 looks far more in place out on the common, where 

 he can display his fine array of bright brass buttons 

 to more advantage. Sir James Sawyer says that 

 the oil of Tansy merits a great deal more attention 

 than is now given to it, and might well enter into 

 the composition of toilet vinegars and perfumed 

 salts. 



