1 6 2 May Broom . 



regretted that this tree was not more common in this 

 fully developed form ; ordinarily it is a mere shrub six 

 or eight feet high, to be found in luxuriant hedges. As 

 a tree it shows splendidly in blossom, and the droop- 

 ing racemes of flowers are not .only very graceful, but 

 fill the air with a delicious odor. 



XXXI. 



Broom Flaming Flowers of Broom Fortissimo in Color Pansies 

 Their Variety Heartsease Poetry in the Language of Science 

 Daisy Buttercup Disagreeable Scientific Name Ranunculus 

 Aquatilis Lousevvort The Rose fortunate in her Name Name 

 of the Horse-chestnut Cuckoo-flower Marsh Caltha Names 

 of the Marsh Caltha. 



IT is rarely that I feel myself capable of any thing 

 like hostility towards any plant that grows wild in 

 our country, but there is one of them the broom 

 which tires my patience a little in its flowering season 

 by the very loudness of its self-assertion. At all other 

 times of the year it is welcome enough, and its pleasant 

 green is often most agreeable to the eye when very 

 little green of a cheerful kind is to be found upon any 

 thing else ; but really, when the yellow flowers are all 

 ablaze, I feel that we have too much of a good thing, 

 and are positively incapacitated for the enjoyment of 

 delicate color by this all but intolerable glare. A 

 strong pure color of this kind ought not to be sur- 



