| | |only. Also well known as
| | |Genista praecox.
| | |
C. purgans |South and |Yellow |Chiefly of note because it
|Central Europe | |is one of the parents of C.
| | |praecox, but is of little
| | |account for the English
| | |garden. It is necessary in
| | |a collection, but nowhere
| | |else.
| | |
*C. purpureus |Found in Eastern|Purple |A delightful shrub when
|Europe in | |properly placed. Loudon's
|exposed | |advice to graft it "on the
|situations | |laburnum standard high" is
| | |bad, and has been followed
| | |in many gardens. This way
| | |of treating the shrub is
| | |utterly foreign to its
| | |nature; it is a _trailing_
| | |Broom, and therefore should
| | |be planted on the rough
| | |garden or some bank where
| | |it can spread in its own
| | |way. We have seen it
| | |falling over a boulder and
| | |making a trail of purple
| | |colouring in May. Rare
| | |varieties are albus, white,
| | |and one with flowers of
| | |rose tint. The famous
| | |Cytisus Adami is the
| | |outcome of grafting this
| | |species on the Scotch
| | |laburnum (L. a