132 THE BROOM-BUSH 



Scotland, is the ideal habitat of the whin, where 

 Linnaeus on his knees worshipped the magnificence iso 

 of its floral display. But the broom, too, has its 

 annual field of cloth of gold in June or July. 

 Only one The Leguminosae, to which order belong both furze 

 the&room- an( * ^ room > are ^ man 7 species, all the British (num- 

 bush in bering nearly seventy) being without exception papi- 

 BHtam. }i onaceous but of those that attain to the dignity of 

 shrubs there is only one broom in Britain, two species 

 of whin, and three genistas. EDITOR. 



NOTES 



LINE 24. Cowdenknowes. The Knolls of Golden ; a mile south 

 of the village of Earlston, in Berwickshire, on Leader water 

 (a trib. of Tweed). 



27. bush aboon Traquair. Traquair near Innerleithen, on 

 Tweed, Peebles-shire. 



28. Robert Crawford. One of Scotland's many poetical 

 Roberts ; born 1695 (?), died 1733 (?) ; author of the three 

 pastoral lyrics Doun the Bum, Davie, The Broom of the Cow- 

 denknowes, and The Bush aboon Traquair. A verse from the 

 second-named of these goes thus : 



Not Teviot braes so green and gay 

 May with this broom compare, 

 Not Yarrow banks in flowery May, 



Nor the bush aboon Traquair. 



33. the hunted prince. ' Bonnie Piince Charlie,' son of The 

 Chevalier, James 'the Pretender '. He led the rising in Scotland, 

 known as ' The Forty-five '. After his defeat at Culloden, he 

 became a fugitive, with a price of 30,000 on his head. He 

 eluded capture, and got safely off to France. One of the songs 

 that celebrate his adventures, known as Woe's me for Prince 

 Charlie, contains the verse 



Dark night cam on, the tempest howled 



Out-owre the hills and valleys ; 

 And whar was 't that your prince lay down, 

 Wha's hame should been a palace ? 



