280 THE NEW GARDENING 



Aquifolium (syn. Mahonia aquifolia) is evergreen and has 

 several varieties. Thunbergi, with golden pendulous 

 blossoms, and Japonica, a good evergreen with upright 

 yellow flowers, may also be mentioned. The former is 

 deciduous, and so is the common vulgaris. 



The Brooms, species and hybrids of Genista and 

 Cytisus, are beautiful evergreen shrubs that thrive in 

 light soil. Of the Cytisuses, the varieties of scoparius 

 (common European Broom) called Andreanus and 

 sulphureus, the former white with red petals, the latter 

 pale yellow, are the most important. Andreanus is the 

 most beautiful of all the Brooms, and looks charming in 

 a bed. Several of the Brooms are used by rock gardeners. 

 A. Ardoinii, with yellow flowers ; C. decumbens, a yellow 

 carpet er ; C. Kewensis, a hybrid with cream flowers ; 

 and C. purpureus, with purple flowers, and its modern 

 forms, such as incarnatus and pendulus, are cases in 

 point. 



Cytisus praecox, an early blooming hybrid with cream 

 flowers, and C. Dallimorei, a mauve hybrid between 

 albus and Andreanus, are interesting Brooms. The Mount 

 Etna Broom is Genista ^Ethnensis, a charming shrub of 

 slender, twiggy growth, which loads its slender branches 

 with yellow flowers in spring. 



The Yellow Spanish Broom (not the common yellow 

 Spanish Gorse, Genista Hispanica) is Spartium junceum, 

 a good plant for late summer and autumn blooming, 

 with rush-like shoots and yellow, very sweet flowers. 



The Buddleias are beautiful shrubs, and variabilis 

 Veitchiana is a splendid form of a good Chinese plant. 

 Variabilis itself is well worth growing, for it bears its 

 lilac flowers in long racemes ; but Veitchiana is still 

 longer and better and is of a bright sky-blue. The newer 

 variabilis magnifica is as large as Veitchiana and rosy 



