12 THE GARDENER'S COMPANION 



is a delightful sight in early June, and should be 

 planted where it has an evergreen background. 

 The cream-coloured Genista scoparia florealbo, is 

 low growing and spreading, flowering late in June. 

 Cytisus nigricans is of delicate and graceful beauty 

 in July and August. The common yellow Broom, 

 Cytisus scoparias, and its red variety C. andreana 

 are good for massing in places which are seen 

 from a little distance. 



If it is a new garden you are laying out, you 

 must be careful to consider what is likely to grow 

 well and easily in your particular soil and climate, 

 and to ascertain this, it is well to look around you 

 and see what kind of things flourish on your 

 neighbour's land. 



Our British evergreens of Box, Yew and Holly, 

 are safe to do well in almost any soil, and always 

 make a good background for flower beds, provided 

 they are not overdone. Guelder-rose, Elder (cut 

 leaved and golden), Colutea, the common Berberis, 

 and Crataegus of various sorts, all start easily on 

 the poorest of soils ; while on a clay soil or moist 

 loam you may plant Weigela, Eubus in every 

 variety, Pyrus, Deutzia, Cornus, and many of the 

 Spiraeas. 



