emale flowers
| | |are borne on separate
| | |plants, the male being,
| | |owing to its catkins, by
| | |far the most ornamental.
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[Illustration: _GENISTA (Ulex) HISPANICA. SPANISH FURZE._]

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| COUNTRY OR | COLOUR |
NAME | ORIGIN AND | AND | GENERAL REMARKS.
| NATURAL ORDER. | SEASON. |
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| | |
Genista |Leguminosae |...... |A popular group of shrubs,
| | |allied to the Cytisus, and
| | |delighting in dry sandy
| | |soils. A group of the finer
| | |species is very rich in
| | |colour when in flower.
| | |
*G. aethnensis |Slopes of Mount |Golden |This Broom is perfectly
|Etna, in Sicily |yellow; |hardy near London. It is
| |July and |one of the rarest of shrubs
| |August |in gardens in spite of its
| | |beauty, and it flowers in
| | |July and August, a season
| | |when even inferior
| | |flowering shrubs are not
| | |plentiful. It has a rather
| | |gaunt, yet not inelegant
| | |habit, and assumes a
| | |somewhat tree-like form
| | |when old, being often
| | |reduced to a single stem at
| | |the base. It carries,
| | |however, a wide head of