i8o The Wild Garden. 



This is an exceedingly neat little shrub, very low 

 and dwarf, but vigorous in the profusion of its 

 bright yellow flowers. It ought to be in every 

 garden, and would be equally at home on the select 

 rockwork, the border, or among very dwarf shrubs. 

 It is rather frequent in England, but rare in Scot- 

 land and Ireland. It can be had from most shrub 

 nurseries. Its two allies, G. pilosa and G. anglica, 

 are also neat and interesting little shrubs, and 

 though not so decidedly ornamental as the Dyer's 

 genista, they are well worth a place in an interest- 

 ing collection of dwarf British shrubs. 



Most people who admire wild flowers must 

 have been struck with the beauty of the common 

 Restharrow, which spreads such a sheet of delicate 

 colour over many a chalk cliff and sandy pasture 

 or roadside. It bears garden culture willingly, and 

 is prettier when in flower than numbers of New 

 Holland plants, which require greenhouse pro- 

 tection and ceaseless expense to keep them alive 

 at all. There is a smoother, taller, and more bushy 

 form of this sometimes admitted as a species, G. 

 antiquorum, which is also a very ornamental plant, 

 and well suited for the mixed border. These 

 plants grow very freely from seed, and are of the 

 easiest culture. 



