Cytisus falcatus. Yellow broom . "We received this rare plant about the year 1815 from our friend Mr. Schott of Vienna. It is a native of Hungary, a country of which the botanical riches have been by no means fully explored. With us it grows to a large shrub, with long spreading branches, flowering regularly in April and May.". Engraved by G. Cooke. Conrad Loddiges and Sons published an illustrated catalogue of the nursery's plants entitled the Botanical Cabinet. The monthly magazine featured 10 hand-coloured illustrations and ran from 1817 to 1833 to total 2,000 plates. The publication introduced many exquisite camellias from China, exotic orchids and lilies from the New World, and about 100 varieties of heaths from South Africa, which were currently in vogue. (The Victorian era saw a series of manias for flowers - from roses and camellias to heaths, ferns and orchids.). Most of the plates were drawn by the author George Loddiges and local engraver George Cooke (1781~1834). The others