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it is a great enlivener of our gardens, which, at the latter season, 
are but scantily provided with gay flowers. 
Cowper has, with many other fine plants, also noticed the 
broom: — 
Hypericum, all bloom, so thick a swarm 
Of flowers, like flies, clothing her slender rods, 
That scarce a leaf appears; mezereon too, 
Though leafless, well attired, and thick beset 
With blushing wreaths, investing every spray ; 
Althea, with the purple eye; the broom, 
Yellow and bright, as bullion unalloyed, 
Her blossoms. 
Sweet blooms genista in the myrtle shade. 
Darwin. 
Joy, like the zephyr, 
That flies o’er the flower, 
Rippling it into 
Fresh fairness each hour — 
Joy has waved o’er thee 
His sun-woven wing, 
And dimpled thy cheek, 
Like the roses of spring. 
f. s. o. 
ORNAMENT. 
HORNBEAM. 
The French have made this plant the emblem of ornament, 
from the splendid effect produced by its judicious training in the 
