Title: The language of flowers: or, Floral emblems of thoughts, feelings, and sentiments ..
Identifier: cu31924067844120 (find matches)
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Tyas, Robert, 1811-1879
Subjects: Flower language
Publisher: London, New York, G. Routledge and sons
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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A BROKEN STRA W. and perfume when in bloom. It is grown for feeding sheep in France, and in Spain is much used for cordage. Scott notices the toughness of the fibrous roots, which would make them useful for such a purpose :— " And now, to issue from the glen. No pathway meets the wanderer's ken. Unless he climb, with footing nice, A far projecting precipice. The Broom's, tough roots his ladder made ; The hazel's saplings lent their aid; And thus an airy point he won." An indigenous species (5. scoparium) is very beautiful in its native wilds, where the Broom bears her blossoms, " Yellow and bright as bullion unalloyed," in the pleasant months of April, May, and June, of which Wordsworth was thinking when he wrote,— " 'Twas that delightful season, when the Broom, Full-flowered, and visible on every steep, Along the copses runs in veins of gold." In bushy places, thickets, and on sandy hills, it displays its beauties most charmingly; and Burns admired it so greatly that it inspired him with the following exulting lines,— " Their groves o' 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. 40
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