| b also occasionally used in France for fibre Vect 
"in this respect is small compared with that cf. the Spanish 
In regard to the latter, Loudon discusses its economie uses 
taly and the south of France a very Sie cloth i is ‘manufactured | 
gin gine of this plant, Pine junceu h 
of UE 
because it is an excellent “fodder 
ficiency of forage at that seas 
1 or forming baskets, ind for tying up vines an 
The bees are said to be very fond of the flowers, and the - 
are eaten with great mus by poultry, partridges, &c. Medi- 
e flowers a nd lea eaves, in infusion, act as an emetie, Lf ina 
H d 
aperie 
aper Makis rs Monthly — 1883, p. 414, it is ‘state 
ta fibre “is stronger than : 
; made 
t g paper.” An inventor in the- United 
States (quoted aboye) recommends ibe basim | treatment. for. 
ing genista fibre :— 
he plants are, preferably in snail bunches, placed ir s a tank or 
filled with water, which is raised to a boiling heat. ` To this 
nided, either before or ns ng the boiling, lye in opoka 
l 800 | the plants. The lye may be 
prepared, or Pee alkaline earths 
employed, es 
qu hri of lime. 
40 pounds of lim eani 4 
of plants, are preferably employe he 
about. five or six h 
the sam ont 
l, dried, broken, and comber 
mployed for ‘pinning, Ngee ae cor ge, 


