. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. CYTISUS, OR LEAF\: BEOOM. (JilHsiis raecmosiis. VERY one knows tliis old green- honse favourite. We have ilescribed it as the "leafy broom/' Leeaiise some of the brooms are without leaves. True Genistas should hav^e spines; true SjiartiumSj rush- like^ leafless stems ; and true Cytisus should have leaves and no spines. There is no more useful plant in cul- tivation than this for deeora- tive ])urposes. It is so nearly hardy^ that on a dry sandy soil it can bear an average winter even near London, near relative, ([/jfim
. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. CYTISUS, OR LEAF\: BEOOM. (JilHsiis raecmosiis. VERY one knows tliis old green- honse favourite. We have ilescribed it as the "leafy broom/' Leeaiise some of the brooms are without leaves. True Genistas should hav^e spines; true SjiartiumSj rush- like^ leafless stems ; and true Cytisus should have leaves and no spines. There is no more useful plant in cul- tivation than this for deeora- tive ])urposes. It is so nearly hardy^ that on a dry sandy soil it can bear an average winter even near London, near relative, ([/jfimiK itltda, IS so hardy at Kew, that manjr specimens^ eight to ten feet high, may be found by the pagoda in the lioyal Gardens. As a pot-plant for the amateur's greenhouse it is one of the easiest to manage ; any light loamy soil suffices for it, with as much heat as will insure safety against Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hibberd, Shirley, 1825-1890; Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909. London : Cassell
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