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The butterfly, all green and gold, 
To me hath often flown, 
Here in my blossoms to behold 
Wings lovely as his own. 
Burns introduces the yellow broom in his 
Caledonia. 
Their groves of sweet myrtle let foreign lands 
reckon, 
Where bright-beaming summers exalt the per- 
fume ; 
Far dearer to me yon lone glen o’ green breckan, 
Wi’? the burn stealing under the lang yellow 
broom. 
It is said that when Linneus came to 
England, in 1736, he was so much delighted 
with the golden bloom of the furze, which he 
saw for the first time on the commons near 
London, that he fell on his knees enraptured 
at the sight. 
The Spanish broom is cultivated with us for 
the beauty and perfume of its flowers. It 
approaches nearer to the size of a tree than a 
shrub, and continuing in blossom from July to 
October, it is a great enlivener of our gardens, 
which, at the latter season, are but scantily pro- 
vided with gay flowers. 
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