LONDON:

Printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode,

New-Street-Square.

THE

Shrubbery

HISTORICALLY AND BOTANICALLY TREATED;

WITH

OBSERVATIONS ON THE FORMATION OF

ORNAMENTAL PLANTATIONS,

AND

PICTURESQUE SCENERY.

BY HENRY PHILLIPS, F.H.S.

AUTHOR OF POMARIUM BRITANNICUM,

AND HISTORY OF CULTIVATED VEGETABLES.

Sylva nemus non alta facit: tegit arbutus herbam:

Rosmaris et lauri, nigraque myrtus olent.

Nec densæ foliis buxi, fragilesque myricæ,
Nec tenues cytisi, cultaque pinus abest.

OVID. Ars Am.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1823.

V. 2

UNIV. OF CALIFORNIA.

SYLVA FLORIFERA.

LABURNUM.-LABURNUM: CYTISUS.

Natural order, Papilionacea, or Leguminosa. genus of the Diadelphia Decandria class.

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Nor might she fear in beauty to excel,
From whose fair head such golden tresses fell."

THIS beautiful alpine tree was known to the Greeks under the name of 'Aváyupis, and its emetic qualities gave rise to their proverb, Anagrin commovere, "to work one's own woe. It is observed that the bees avoid the flowers of this tree, whose leaves are so agreeable to the goat. Theocritus, the poet, who flourished