THE GREEN-HOUSE GENISTAS. 
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of growth, neat evergreen foliage, earliness 
and profusion of flowering, bright colour 
(clear golden yellow), sweet scent, and facility 
of cultivation. 
This group of Genista has been, by some 
botanists, separated under the name of Teline. 
The most remarkable of the species which 
exist in our gardens are the following : — 
Genista canadensis, G. rhodopnceo, G. Atlee- 
ana, G. bracteolata (or raeemosa), and G. 
Spaehiana. 
Genista canariensis (Canary Island) forms 
a dense shrub, attaining, in age, to a consider- 
able height, but flowering freely when of the 
small stature of a foot or two in height and 
diameter. It has small trifoliolate leaves, the 
leaflets of which are nearly oval ; and bears its 
butterfly-shaped bright yellow flowers in short 
racemose spikes, terminating the short branch- 
lets with which the larger branches are very 
numerously furnished. It thus forms a dense, 
compact, bushy plant ; and through the earliest 
months of spring and summer — from February 
till the end of May, or even much later — may 
be had forming a mass of flower. It is a 
native of the Canary Islands, and was intro- 
duced so long ago as 1659. It is also called 
Spartium albicans ; and is believed to be the 
same as Cytisus paniculatus, and C. ramo- 
sissimus. 
Genista Atleeana (Atlee's) is a hybrid raised 
by Mr. R. Atlee, a few years since, from seeds 
of G. canadensis, and is probably a cross 
between it and G. rhodopnceo. Like the latter 
it has a very dense and compact habit ; the 
leaves are trifoliolate, very small, with the leaf- 
lets quite rounded. The flowers are bright 
yellow, and are very densely produced in 
lengthened racemes at the extremities of the 
short lateral shoots. In general appearance 
it accords very well with its congeners. 
Genista rhodopnceo (rose-scented) is a plant 
of very close and compact habit, but withal some- 
wliat lumpish. It has small trifoliolate leaves, 
the leaflets of which are of a more obovate figure 
than those of G. canariensis ; and, as compared 
with that species, has longer racemes of larger 
and deeper yellow flowers, equally profusely 
borne, and very delightfully fragrant. They 
are produced nearly two months earlier than 
those of G. canariensis, and continue in suc- 
cession through the spring months. This 
Species is also a native of the Canaries, and 
was first introduced' by P. 15. Webb, Esq., who 
sent seeds to the Milford Nursery, where it 
was raised eight or ten years ago. 
GenUta bracteolata (racemose-flowered) is 
altogether a larger plant ; less adapted for pot 
culture, perhaps, on account of its size, but a 
magnificent plant for a conservatory, and also 
for a large specimen plant in a pot. The 
leaves are stalked, composed of three ovate- 
lanceolate leaflets, and having a silky appear- 
ance from being covered with short close hairs. 
The racemes of flowers are terminal, six inches 
long, the flowers being large, and a clear bright 
yellow. It blooms in the spring and summer 
months. It was sent from TenerifFe, its native 
place, by P. B. Webb, Esq., and appears to 
have been first raised by Messrs. Young, of 
Epsom. A plant under this name is reputed 
to be hardy, but it cannot be the present one. 
In the Floricultural Magazine it is figured 
as Cytisus racemosus : it has also borne the 
name of C. chrysobotrys. 
Genista. Spaehiana (Spach's) is a shrub of 
similar habit to G. canariensis, with trifoliate 
stalked leaves, the leaflets of which are elliptic 
lanceolate ; the flowers are clear yellow, in 
ovate spikes at the terminations of the branches 
and branchlets, and they are sweet-scented, 
and profusely produced in the spring months. 
It is indigenous to the north-west mountains 
of Teneriffe, and was raised from seeds sent 
by P. B. Webb, Esq., to the Milford Nursery 
some years ago, but has only recently flowered. 
It is very nearly hardy, and stood for several 
years unprotected in the Jardin du Roi, at 
Paris, and was only killed down by the winter 
of 1844-5. 
There is another species called G. discolor, 
which has been grown and flowered at the 
Milford Nursery ; this was also received from 
the same source as the last, and, probably, 
resembles the others in general characters, but 
we have no information respecting it. 
These plants are of the easiest culture. 
They propagate freely, either by cuttings or 
seeds ; the latter make the strongest plants, 
in the same space of time, but there is 
a chance of the plants being of an inferior 
variety, though there is at the same time, 
of course, an equal chance of obtaining a 
superior kind. Seedling plants vary much 
in their qualities and habits, especially as 
regards the size, colouring, and profusion of 
their flowers ; and to this source may be 
attributed some of the want of success in 
growing strikingly beautiful plants, which is 
usually entirely attributed to bad or indif- 
ferent management. If seeds are employed, 
they should be sown in the green-house, in the 
spring, in pots of sandy loamy soil ; and if 
the mode by cuttings is chosen, they simply 
require to be planted in sandy soil, and placed 
in a moderately close frame, where there is a 
little warmth. In cither case, get the young 
plants potted singly, into small pots as soon 
as it can be done, and let them be grown in 
the green-house, or in a pit, until the time 
when green-house plants are placed out of 
doors for the summer, when they may take 
their place among them ; though, in the case 
of all small pots, a somewhat shady position 
