CY'TISUS ARGENTEUS. 
SILVER-LEAVED CYTISUS. 
Class. Order. 
monadelphia. decandria. 
Natural Orcfy. 
LEGUMINOSiE.0 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration . 
Introduced 
France. 
3 feet. 
July. 
Perennial. 
in 1739. 
No. 452. 
Cytisus is derived from Cythnus, an island now 
called Thermia, where, according to Pliny, it was 
indigenous. Argenteus, from the Latin argenteum, 
silver; which alludes to the silvery effect produced 
on the plant by a close white hairiness. 
The Cytisus argenteus, in its natural state, is a 
low spreading, and rather inconvenient shrub for 
display; but like some others of the same genus, 
when assisted by art, becomes a conspicuous orna- 
mentof the garden. Its slender decumbent branches, 
clothed, as the poet would say, with golden flowers 
and silver leaves, when lifted from their lowly birth- 
place, to the eminence their beauty deserves, are 
peculiarly attractive. Grafted on single stems of 
the Laburnum, from four to six feet high, standards 
are formed with gracefully drooping branches. 
These, interspersed with standard roses, judiciously 
disposed over the garden or pleasure grounds, give 
character, and a picturesque appearance, not at- 
tainable by the use of naturally grown shrubs. 
This species of Cytisus, as well as the Cytisus 
laburnum, for standard stocks, may be raised from 
spring-sown seeds. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 4, 322. 
