. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. Book III. HARD-WOODED NON-RESINOUS TREES. 991. when in fruit, and in autumn when its leaves change to a beautiful red and yellow. Its timber is chiefly used by the cabinet-maker and chair- maker. 7113. The tree-laburnum. — Cytisus alpinus, W. en. (Bot. M
. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. Book III. HARD-WOODED NON-RESINOUS TREES. 991. when in fruit, and in autumn when its leaves change to a beautiful red and yellow. Its timber is chiefly used by the cabinet-maker and chair- maker. 7113. The tree-laburnum. — Cytisus alpinus, W. en. (Bot. Mag. 176.) Diaddph. Decan. L. and Leguminosce, J. It is a low tree, a native of Switzerland, cultivated chiefly for ornament, but affording also a valuable timber. For this pur- pose the variety or species (C. alpinus), with broad leaves and long racemes, is decidedly to be pre- ferred, as being much more of a tree than the other. Sang says, it has a full claim to the cha- racters of useful and ornamental; is beautiful when in flower, and may, in a grove, be trained to a fine stem of very considerable size. 7114. Use. The timber (the false ebony of the French) is much prized by cabinet-makers and turners, for its hardness, beauty of grain, and durability. The tree is frequently sown in plantations infested with hares and rabbits, who will touch no other tree as long as a twig of laburnum remains. " Though eaten to the ground in winter," as Boutcher observes, " it will spring again next season, and thus afibrd a con- stant supply for these animals, so as to save the other trees till of a size to resist their attacks. The timber lias been sold for upwards of half a sovereign per ; It becomes most valuable in light loams and sandy soils. 7115. The holly is the Ilex aquifolium, L. (Eng. Bot. 496.) Pent. Monog. L. and Rhamni, J. Houx, Fr. ; Stechbaum, Ger. ; Agrifoglio, Ital. It is an elegant, shining, evergreen tree, rising from twenty to thirty feet high
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