tly."
| | |
*L. alpinum |Called the |Yellow |This is a well-known tree.
(Cytisus alpinus), |Scotch laburnum | |Some of its varieties are
Scotch laburnum |because a | |very beautiful.
|supposed native | |
|of Scotland, but| |
|this is not | |
|true. Loudon | |
|says: "It was | |
|introduced into | |
|Britain about | |
|the same time as| |
|the other | |
|species, 1596." | |
|The other | |
|species is | |
|Laburnum vulgare| |
| | |
L. Watereri |Hybrid |Yellow |We have given this special
| | |prominence for the reason
| | |it is a hybrid. In Bailey's
| | |"American Cyclopaedia"
| | |occurs this note:
| | |"Watereri, Dipp. (L.
| | |Parksii, Hort, C. alpinus
| | |and vulgaris Wittst.)
| | |Hybrid of garden origin,
| | |but found also wild.... As
| | |hardy as L. alpinum and
| | |sometimes considered to be
| | |a variety of that species."
| | |
L. Adami (Purple |Graft-hybrid |Purple, |This is a remarkable tree,
laburnum) | |yellow, |and is named after M. Adam,
| |and buff |who grafted Cytisus
| | |purpureus on the common
| | |laburnum. Loudon says the
| | |purple laburnum "is a
| | |hybrid between Cytisus