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TREES AND SHRUBS 



NAME. 



Genista aethnensis 



G. cinerea 

 *G. hispanica 



G. monosperma 

 G. pilosa 



F G. radiata 



G. sagittalis 

 G. tinctoria 



COUNTRY OR 



ORIGIN AND 



NATURAL ORDER. 



Slopes of Mount 

 Etna in Sicily 



South-West 

 Europe 



South-West 

 Europe 



Sicily 

 Europe, England 



Central and 

 Southern Europe 



Europe 

 Britain 



COLOUR 

 AND 



SEASON. 



July and 



August ; 



golden 



yellow 



Yellow ; 



July 

 Yellow ; 



July 



White 



Rich 

 Yellow ; 

 May and 



June 

 Yellow ; 

 Summer 



Yellow ; 

 May and 



June 



Yellow ; 



July and 



September 



GENERAL REMARKS. 



when even inferior flowering 

 shrubs are not plentiful. It 

 has a rather gaunt, yet not 

 inelegant habit, and assumes 

 a somewhat tree-like form 

 when old, being often re- 

 duced to a single stem at the 

 base. It carries, however, 

 a wide head of thin cord- 

 like, arching or pendulous 

 branches, with little or no 

 foliage except when the wood 

 is quite young. The flowers 

 are of a rich golden-yellow, 

 and during the series of hot 

 summers we have experienced 

 in recent years have been es- 

 pecially abundant. It would, 

 indeed, be difficult to find a 

 shrub better adapted for hot, 

 light soils than this, a fact 

 that is amply proved by the 

 way it succeeds at Kew. It 

 is a good plant for associating 

 with medium - sized ever- 

 greens, which hide its bare 

 stems and render it more 

 effective when in flower. It 

 grows 10 feet to 14 feet high, 

 and is thus one of the tallest 

 if not the tallest of the 

 Brooms hardy in Britian. It 

 ripens seed freely, and is 

 best propagated by that 

 means. 



This is a shrubby plant for the 

 rock-garden in sunny places. 



A dwarf and charming shrub, 

 i foot to 2 feet high, and 

 when in bloom covered with 

 flowers. One of the best of 

 its race. 



Not well known but interesting. 

 Sandy soil. 



A prostrate plant for the rock 

 garden. Ordinary soil. 



Very beautiful when in full 

 flower on the rock garden, 

 and will even succeed in a 

 rough wall. 



Another dwarf species for rock 

 garden. 



The double variety flore-pleno 

 and elatior are finer than 

 the species. Elatior makes 

 quite a bush and is very 

 attractive when in full 

 bloom. 



