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PLANT-LORE OF SHAKESPEARE 
Buttercups and Orchises, carpets of yellow, purple, azure 
blue, and fiery crimson, which the tropics can rarely exhibit. 
We have smaller masses of colour in our Hawthorns and 
Crab trees, our Holly and Mountain Ash, our Broom, Fox¬ 
gloves, Primroses, and purple Vetches, which clothe with 
gay colours the length and breadth of our land ” (“ Malayan 
Archipelago,” ii. 296). 
As a garden shrub the Furze may be grown either as a single 
lawn shrub or in the hedge or shrubbery. Everywhere it will 
be handsome both in its single and double varieties, and as it 
bears the knife well, it can be kept within limits. The upright 
Irish form also makes an elegant shrub, but does not flower so 
freely as the typical plant. 
