furze

• “This scrub Ashmead-Bartlett calls furze in his articles, but I have never seen furze in Gallipoli.”

  The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"

• “The furze is a member of the family _Leguminosæ_, which includes so many useful plants, such as, for example, the pea, the bean, and the clovers.”

  The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock

• “Cork -- the most zealous and successful advocate for the cultivation of this plant -- informed me that he had obtained so much as 14 tons per acre; a fact which proves that the furze is a plant which is well deserving of the attention of the farmer.”

  The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock

• “They are popularly supposed to come from the furze, which is also believed to shelter adders.”

  Nature Near London

• “The brake fern is dead and withered; the tip of each frond curled over downwards by the frost, but it forms a brown background to the dull green furze which is alight here and there with scattered blossom, by contrast so brilliantly yellow as to seem like flame.”

  Hodge and His Masters

• “They are lined with a soft silky cotton fibre; and composed, externally, of a woolly kind of furze, bound together with which appears also to be spider's web.”

  The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America

• “M. Naudin states, that a certain kind of furze or thistle, of which cattle are very fond, may be made to grow without thorns -- an important consideration, seeing that at present, before it can be used as food, it has to undergo a laborious beating, to crush and break the prickles with which it is covered.”

  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 448 Volume 18, New Series, July 31, 1852

• “To protect themselves from predation they like rough land such as heathland, and coastal terrain with good cover, such as that provided by furze (gorse) and other dense shrubbery.”

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• “Yet here among the ancient family heirlooms and Douglas legends, thick as furze, the sense of patient waiting seemed almost tangible.”

  Simon & Schuster: Earl of Durkness

• “And because it lives in a furze bush a few hundred metres away, and it seems quite content there.”

  Blue Screen of Death and the Spiders of Mayhem

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