430 CYSTOPTERIS. THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. CYTISUS. 



as a shrub of about 5 feet high, of 

 slender growth, with fine glossy green 

 foliage, which is nearly evergreen in 

 warm places, and in a mild season. 

 The flowers come as narrow, slender 

 white spikes of graceful effect from 

 June to August, and the leaves take 

 glowing tints of orange and crimson in 

 the autumn. Seed. 



CYSTOPTERIS (Bladder Fern). 

 The cultivated kinds of this native 

 group are small elegant Ferns of 

 delicate fragile texture. They grow 

 on rocks and walls, chiefly in moun- 

 tainous districts. The best - known 

 are : C. fragilis, which has finely-cut 

 fronds about 6 inches high. It is of 

 easy culture, succeeding in an ordinary 

 border, though seen to best advantage 

 on shady parts of the rock garden in a 

 well-drained soil. There are two or 

 three varieties, Dickieana being the 

 best. C. alpina is much smaller, and 

 when once established not difficult to 

 cultivate or increase, but more affected 

 by excessive moisture than C. fragilis. 

 A sheltered situation in a well-drained 

 part of the rock garden suits it. C. 

 montana is another elegant plant 

 requiring the same treatment as C. 

 fragilis. 



CYTISUS ( Broom) . Beautiful 

 shrubs, mostly from the warmer and 

 arid hills of S. and W. Europe, some 

 hardy in our country. They are easily 

 raised from seed, and profuse in effec- 

 tive bloom. Many kinds come freely 

 from seed scattered here and there, if 

 care be taken to give the young plants 

 some little protection from accident 

 in their earliest stages ; it may also 

 be taken as an axiom that no kind 

 should be grafted that can possibly be 

 obtained on its own roots. 



CYTISUS ALDUS (White Spanish Broom) . 

 A graceful shrub, reaching a height of 

 5 or 6 feet in three or four years from 

 seed, while old plants sometimes reach 

 15 feet. When thickly covered with its 

 white blossoms, borne in long racemes, 

 there are few finer flowering shrubs. The 

 plant ripens seed in abundance, from which 

 young plants are easily raised. Two or 

 three varieties of this kind are grown 

 incarnatus, bearing flowers tinged, especi- 

 ally when in bud and newly opened, with 

 pink or red-purple ; multiflorus, a free- 

 flowered garden variety with flowers of 

 creamy white ; and grandiflorus, with 

 blossoms that are larger and of a fine pure 

 white. 



C. ARDOINII (Dwarf Alpine Cytisus). A 

 low- trailing shrub, 4 to 6 inches high, and 

 a gem for the rock garden. It is covered 



during April and May with deep yellow 

 flowers, thriving in dry and sunny spots, 

 its silky trifoliate leaves carried upon fine 

 rod-like stems. Maritime Alps. Cuttings 

 or seed. 



C. ARGENTEUS (Silver-leaved Cytisus). 

 A silvery-leaved plant found in the 

 Maritime Alps, its leaves and stems 

 densely clothed in thick down white, and 

 growing in the sunniest and most arid 

 spots. 



C. AUSTRIACUS (Austrian Cytisus). A 

 hardy kind from the east of Europe, grow- 

 ing as a compact leafy bush of 2 to 4 feet, 

 bearing terminal clusters of yellow flowers 

 during early summer and again in autumn. 



C. BEANII (Bean's Cytisus). A cross 

 between Ardoinii and biflorus, which 

 originated in the Royal Gardens, Kew. 

 It is a dwarf, prostrate shrub, with the 

 habit of Ardoinii, useful in masses for the 

 rock garden, its yellow flowers coming 

 early in May. 



C. BIFLORUS (Twin-flowered Cytisus). 

 The earliest of the Brooms, it is neat in 

 habit, growing very freely and about 

 4 feet high. The bright yellow flowers 

 appear in the axils of the leaves throughout 

 the long shoots. 



C. CAPITATUS (Cluster-flowered Cytisus). 

 A low, semi-evergreen shrub growing in 

 the outskirts and clearings of sunny woods 

 throughout C. and S. Europe, bearing 

 clusters of pale yellow flowers at times 

 shaded with bronze, at the tips of the 

 long erect shoots. Though less showy 

 than some kinds, its habit is neat and 

 compact, and it flowers from the middle of 

 July into autumn, when few sorts are in 

 beauty. Seed. 



C. DECUMBENS (Trailing Cytisus). A 

 dwarf, prostrate shrub from E. Europe, 

 with large pale yellow flowers in long erect 

 spikes coming from June till August, and 

 pretty in the rock garden. 



C. GLABRESCENS (Italian Cytisus). A 

 hardy plant from the mountains of N. 

 Italy, and almost untried in gardens, 

 though pretty as a rock plant. It forms 

 a small bush with the pendulous habit of 

 C. purpureus, but with golden flowers 

 crowded in the axils of the leaves ; these 

 are deciduous, smooth above, and covered 

 with soft hairs beneath. 



C. HIRSUTUS (Hairy Cytisus). A dwarf 

 shrub i to 2 feet high, with trailing stems 

 and yellow flowers in June and July, and 

 useful in the rock garden or the front line 

 of the shrubbery. The hairiness is only 

 in the young growths, the adult leaves 

 being smooth. S.E. Europe. 



C. KEWENSIS (Kew Cytisus). A beau- 

 tiful prostrate plant raised in Kew Gardens 

 as a cross between Ardoinii and the White 

 Broom, but distinct in habit from both 

 parents. It spreads by long trailing 

 shoots, rising only about 3 inches, but in 

 old plants covering a wide surface. Its 

 creamy white or pale yellow flowers 



