53 TREES 



A tree which should be in all Botanic Gardens is the 

 graft-hybrid, Cytisus Laburnum adami, originally produced 

 in 1826 at Vitry by inserting a bud of Cytisus purpureus on 

 the stock of the Common Laburnum. We had a good tree 

 in 1864, but for the moment, the Garden has to rely upon the 

 tree belonging to the Professor of Botany. There is another in 

 the Banbury Road. Its peculiarity consists in its producing 

 the yellow flowers of the Common Laburnum indiscriminately 

 intermingled with the purple flowers of C. purpureus on its 

 branches. The inflorescences are either pure, like one or 

 other of the parents, or may take their colour partly from one 

 and partly from the other. 



Having thus completed the tour of the Garden, the visitor 

 may either leave by the wicket-gate into Rose Lane by 

 Christ Church Meadow, or walk back by the Western Green- 

 houses, or return by the door in the South Wall to the 

 Herbaceous beds. 



What should I tell you more of it? 



There was so many trees yet, 



That I should all encombred bee 



Ere I had reckoned every tree. CHAUCER. 



