FOURTH NATIONAL FL0WP:R SHOW 137 
CYTISUS RACEMOSUS 
THE GOLDEN BROOM 
BY ROBERT KIFT 
This wonderfully beautiful flowering plant, with its clouds of yellow blos- 
soms, is most conspicuous in all groups of Easter plants, at which season it is 
seen in all its glory. Being of rapid growth its pliable branches can be trimmed 
to any form. In its natural bush form with every branch full of flowers, it is 
a golden glow; it can be trimmed to a perfect globe in shape and presents the 
appearance of a gilded ball. The illustration shows a standard form. The 
stem of this plant is allowed to grow to the desired height, the lower shoots 
being removed to provide for a straight center stem; when the desired height is 
reached the end of the shoot is "pinched" or removed, which causes it to 
branch out from the next lower buds. These in turn are "pinched" until finally 
there is a heavy head of branches which are trimmed to a round head and which 
produce quantities of their golden tassel-like blossoms. 
Splendid examples of this beautiful plant will be seen at the great National 
Flower Show, to be held in Convention Hall beginning March 28th and open 
every day and evening until April 2nd. Twenty-five thousand dollars in prizes 
is offered, and florists from all the large Eastern cities will send their best 
plants to compete for the large offerings. 
A MOST MERITORIOUS VINE 
BY ADOLPH MtJLLER 
By far the most superior vine now growing and known is the Evergeen 
Bittersweet {Euonymus vegetus). 
This plant keeps its leaves in perfect green color all through the winter and 
spring months and the summer season, and is most conspicuous in the fall and 
winter months, when its rich dark foliage is covered and decorated as it were 
with many clusters of scarlet berries. This red among the green gives the 
whole plant an effect of rare distinction that no other vine possesses. It is 
indeed a rare plant and one that will receive a world-wide popularity once 
the public can see it in use. 
What to the eye of the traveler can be more beautifully entrancing than to 
see a railroad embankment covered with these vines? Any exposure is right 
for them — either the north, south, west or east. Good subjects to plant against 
are garden walls of brick or stone, trellises, fences, terraces, old trees and any- 
thing a vine can grow upon. 
It is perfectly hardy and without question the most Ijcautiful decorative 
vine ever planted. 
