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country ; and which, in a suitable soil, and carefully attended 

 to, produces a large return of a nutritious and palatable 

 food, green and succulent throughout the winter as well as 



ULEX EUROP^SUS Common Gorse. 



other periods of the year, and much liked by all kinds of 

 stock. It is a very hardy plant, and may be grown suc- 

 cessfully in this country at an elevation considerably above 

 the limits of cereal cultivation. The only drawback to its 

 use is the necessity that exists for bruising or crushing it, 

 in order to reduce the spines or prickles with which it 

 is covered, and which materially affect its use for forage 



