CYT'ISUS PURPU'REUS. 
PURPLE CYTISUS. 
Class. 
MON A DELPHI A. 
Natural Order. 
LEGUMINOSjE, 
Order. 
DECANDRIA. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers 
Habit. 
Introduced 
Austria. 
3 feet. 
May to Aug. 
Shrub. 
in 1792. 
No. 1246. 
From the name Cynthus, see No. 1078. 
The habit of a plant has much influence in mak- 
ing it a favourite or otherwise in our gardens ; in- 
deed, a plant of handsome growth is an object of 
beauty independently of flowers. This may not be 
pleasurably felt by “the million,” amongst whom the 
cultivation of taste has not, in our own country, arri- 
ved at the desired standard. Beauty of this class 
is, however, recognized where the arts have educated 
the mind, and generated those susceptibilities, on 
which refined pleasures are so greatly dependent. 
The Cytisus purpureus has much beauty to re- 
commend it to the florist, but its branches are weak, 
and, growing on their own roots, not readily trained 
or disposed of in any way that can render them con- 
venient ornaments, either in the borders or shrub- 
bery. Here, then, art steps in, and elevates them 
on a standard, from two feet to six feet high, as taste 
and circumstances require ; and upon the same prin- 
ciple as standard Roses, now so greatly admired, a 
desirable ornament is obtained. 
Seedling stocks of Laburnum are the most suit- 
able for receiving grafts of any species of Cytisus. 
