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DICTIONARY OF THE 
Neatness, Broom. 
The broom is found wild in Europe. It is a fragrant, papil¬ 
ionaceous, yellow flower. Burns says in his Caledonia,— 
“ Their groves of sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, 
Where bright beaming summers exalt the perfume; 
Far dearer to me yon lone glen o’ green breckan, 
Wi’ the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom.” 
And Shakspeare mentions 
“broom groves, 
Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves, 
Being lass-lorn.” 
Novelty, Dahlia. See p. 55. 
Obstacle, Rest-harrow. See p. 27. 
Occupation, Foxglove. 
Ithind says, “ The beauty of this plant has recommended 
it to the notice of the florist, and it is accordingly often found 
in the garden parterre. It also forms an ornamental and 
conspicuous object in many’ woodland and mountain scenes 
in Scotland and Wales. Among the country people it has 
