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weeks makes us forgive its persistence, and thank 

 Endicott for bringing it here. 



" The Broom, 



Full-flowered and visible on every steep, 

 Along the copses runs in veins of gold.'* 



The Broom flower is the emblem of mid-summer, 

 the hottest yellow flower I know it seems to throw 

 out heat. I recall the first time I saw it growing ; I 

 was told that it was " Salem Wood-wax." I had 

 heard of " Roxbury Waxwork," the Bitter-sweet, but 

 this was a new name, as it was a new tint of yellow, 

 and soon I had its history, for I find Salem people 

 rather proud both of the flower and its story. 



Oxeye Daisies (Whiteweed) are also by vague tra- 

 dition the children of Governor Endicott's planting. 

 I think it far more probable that they were planted 

 and cherished by the wives of the colonists, when 

 their beloved English Daisies were found unsuited 

 to New England's climate and soil. We note the 

 Woad-waxen and Whiteweed as crowding usurpers, 

 not only because they are persistent, but because 

 their great expanses of striking bloom will not let 

 us forget them. Many other English plants are 

 just as determined intruders, but their modest dress 

 permits them to slip in comparatively unobserved. 



It has ever been characteristic of the British colo- 

 nist to carry with him to any new home the flowers 

 of old England and Scotland, and characteristic 

 of these British flowers to monopolize the earth. 

 Sweetbrier is called " the missionary-plant," by 

 the Maoris in New Zealand, and is there regarded 



