. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. '214 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. Spec. Char., Sfc. Branches terete, twiggy. Leaves simple, and trifoliolate, sessile. Leaflets linear-oblong, and silky. Flowers in fascicles, disposed in long racemes. Legume 2-seeded, very villous. {Don's Mill.) An upright shrub ; evergreen, fro
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. '214 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. Spec. Char., Sfc. Branches terete, twiggy. Leaves simple, and trifoliolate, sessile. Leaflets linear-oblong, and silky. Flowers in fascicles, disposed in long racemes. Legume 2-seeded, very villous. {Don's Mill.) An upright shrub ; evergreen, from the colour of its numerous straight parallel young shoots. Portugal and the Levant. Height 5 ft. to 7 ft. Introduced in 1752. Flowers white; May and June. Legume brown ; ripe in August. A very handsome shrub, more especially when covered with its white flowers in May, and when surrounded by hundreds of bees, busily occupied in extracting the honey. In good soil, it is of very rapid growth, attaining the height of 5 or 6 feet in 3 or 4 years ;• and, in 6 or 8 years, growing as high as 15 or even 20 feet, if in a sheltered situation. Placed by itself on a lawn, it forms a singularly ornamental plant, even when not in flower, by the varied disposition and tufting of its twiggy thread-like branches. When in flower, it is one of the finest ornaments of the garden. Trained to a single stem, its effect is increased ; and, grafted on the laburnum, a common practice about Paris, it forms a very remarkable combination of beauty and singularity. Plants are easily raised from seeds. Vanety. St C. a. 2 incarnatus has flesh-coloured flowers, or flowers very slightly tinged with reddish purple. This variety was introduced in 1818; and reproduces itself from seeds, but it varies much in the quantity of colour in the Z^9- C^siis Ubus. $ ii. l^abumum Dec. Derivation. A name applied by Pliny to some species of Cftisus. Sect. Char. Calyx campanulate. Pod many-seeded, not dilated at t
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