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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
HUMILITY. 
Broom .— Spartium. 
“ Even humble broom and osiers have their use.” 
In the hieroglyphical language of flowers, 
the broom is made the emblem of Humility 
from the following historical anecdote. 
Fulke, earl of Anjou, having been guilty of 
some crime, was enjoined, by way of penance, 
to go to the Holy Land and submit to cas¬ 
tigation. He acquiesced, habited himself in 
lowly attire, and as a mark of his humility, 
wore a sprig of broom in his cap. 
The expiation being happily finished. Fulke 
adopted the name of Plantagenest, from the 
latin of this shrub, planta-genesta. 
