Furze

Furze (Ulex) - The native Furze is so beautiful and is so well suited for clothing dry banks and the like that it should be included among flowering shrubs. Where the common Furze grows wild the double variety is well worth planting, as it is more effective and lasts longer than the single kind. A dwarf sort, nanus, deserves a place, as it flowers at midsummer, when its commoner relative has done. It also is a native, and where it flourishes it makes a dense prickly bush 2 feet high.

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Ulex Strictus

Ulex Strictus - rish Furze) is an uncommon variety of europaeus. As all the kinds of Furze are difficult to transplant when large, the best plan is to get small plants of the double and of the dwarf kinds and to sow seed of the common single kind. In most nurseries the double Furze is kept in pots, and can be planted at any time. There are few finer sights than a bank of double Furze in full bloom, and this can be enjoyed in every garden. Vigorous pruning when the plants become straggling is all the attention needed. In severe winters all these plants are liable to be cut to the ground, but they start again little the worse.