furze-patches

Updated: May 18, 2025

Its farms wasted by the improvidence of the ancien régime, its park and château destroyed by desperate peasantry during the frenzy of '93, there remains nothing now but pine-barrens and furze-patches, with a pile of blackened ruins as a monument of former glory and folly.

Various - Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877