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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 cc 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 cc the missionary-plant,” by 
the Maoris in New Zealand, and is there regarded 
