The Year Book’s naturalist’s calendar for 26 April noted that the day was called cowslip day, when the cowslip, or paigle, was flowering in abundance. On it the village girls went out to gather the flowers for garlands. Hone’s Every-Day Book printed a poem recalling how, on May morning, every village maiden’s cap was decked with ribbons and every rustic hat with a cowslip garland.
Cowslip Day
26 April
No longer kept
This is called cowslip day; and village girls gather the flowers for garlands.
From Hone's Year Book, col. 507; Hone's Every-Day Book, vol. 2, cols. 511-512. Read the original
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