ARBORETUM NOTES. 11 
LEGUMINOS4#, 
the one against the wall at the east end, planted 
mo20, fas the largest stem of all’ here; a trunk 
quite tree-like in thickness and robustness, and 
rugeedness and dividing into branches which are 
so curiously flattened and fluted and contorted, 
as to remind one of the woody climbers of the 
tropical American forests. The other, near this, 
but against the wall facing south, is, I believe, 
some years younger, and has not so large a stem, 
but it is of very vigorous growth; some of its 
branches spreading over the top of the wall, have 
laid hald of a spruce fir tree growing on the other 
Side of it, and have climbed up this to its top; 
so that the leaves, and in favourable seasons the 
blossoms, of the Wistaria are seen high up among 
the branches of the fir, producing a singular and 
pretty effect. A younger Wistaria, in another 
part of the arboretum, has fastened in like manner 
on a Scotch pine. 
The winter of 1860 affected these Wistarias so 
much, that they hardly flowered at all the next 
year, and their foliage was comparatively scanty ; 
but they soon recovered completely. Almost 
always, they flower twice in the year; most pro- 
fusely in April (or May, in late seasons) ; again, 
sometimes pretty copiously, in July, when the 
blossoms have a still more beautiful effect than in 
the spring, from being relieved against the fine 
Wistaria 
Chinensis 
