CHAPTER X. 
Sivce!-ped — Tendrils — Morning after a Summer Storm — ■ 
Native Countries of Sweet - pea — Everlasting Pea — ■ 
Wild Yellow Vetchling — Beauty of Streams in the 
Country — Chickling Vetch — Tuberous -rooted Tea — Use 
of its Tubers in Holland — Leguminous Tlants — Bloom 
Laburnum — Field Bean — Melilot -Trefoils — Coral Tree 
— Decanne Bean — Mimosa — Judas Tree — Moving 
Saint Join — Value of Leguminous Plants — Verses on 
Wild Floivers. 
Few seif-supported flowers endure the wind 
Unim'ured, but expect the upholding aid 
Of the smooth-shaven prop, and neatly tied. 
Are wedded thus, like beauty to old age 
For interest sake, the living to the dead. 
Some clothe the soil that feeds them, far diffused 
And lowly creeping, modest and yet fair. 
Like virtue, thriving most where little seen : 
Some more aspiring catch the neighbour shrub 
With clasping tendrils, and invest his branch. 
Else unadorned, with many a gay festoon 
And fragrant chaplet, recompensing well 
The strength they borrow wdth the grace they lend.” 
— Coivper. 
Every one is disposed to ackno^vledge that circular or 
spiral lines are more pleasing to the eye than straight or 
angular ones. Philosophers may not coincide as to the 
degree of influence exerted over our tastes by associa- 
tions already formed in our minds respecting them, but 
the fact is indisputable. The tendril upon plants, that 
graceful spiral shoot, by which the weak cling to the 
strong, affords a pleasing illustration of Hogarth’s line 
