Sentence:  Upjohn wrote this slim volume, which, if you recall, was about preparatory schools, and in it, so Kipper tells me, said that the time spent in these establishments was the happiest of our lives. Ye Ed passed it on to Kipper for comment, and he, remembering the dark days at Malvern House, Bramley-on-Sea, when he and I were plucking the <WSD>gowans</WSD> fine there, slated it with no uncertain hand. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The (common daisy).