344 FLORA DOMESTICA. 



Summer's gay blooms, and Autumn's yellow race, 

 I shall thy pale inodorous bells lament. 



" So journeying onward in life's varying track. 



Even while warm youth its bright illusion lends. 

 Fond memory often with regret looks back 

 To childhood's pleasures, and to infant friends." 



Mrs. C. Smith. 



SOUTHEKNWOOD. 



ARTEMISIA ABROTANUM. 



CORYMBIFERiE. SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPEKFLUA. 



From Artemisia, the wife of Mausolus, King of Caria ; called also 

 Old Man. — French, Y auronc-des-jardins; la citronelle ; la garde- 

 robe, from its use in preventing moths from getting into wardrobes 

 and clothes-presses. — Italian, Abrotano, abruotino, abruotina. 



Southernwood is well known as an aromatic shrub, 

 growing three or four feet high. It is a native of many 

 parts of Europe and Asia, where it produces an abun- 

 dance of small yellow flowers ; but the flowers seldom 

 open in this counti'y. 



It may be increased by slips planted in April, and well 

 watered : they must remain in the shade till rooted. This 

 plant is often esteemed by old persons for its aromatic 

 scent; but is not now a very Jhshionable plant. It was 

 formerly a common garden plant in London, as it will 

 live even in the densest parts. It is used in medicine, 

 and its branches will dye wool yellow. 



The Artemisia is included among the flowers of poetical 

 origin in Mr. Smith's Poem of Amarynthus : 



" That with the yellow crown named from the queen 

 Who built the Mausoleum." 



