Robinia 
Viscosa 
Wistaria 
hinensis 
10 ARBORETUM NOTES. 
LEGUMIN@sSz:. 
trees and shrubs), has been later than jam 
ordinary years; so that it was not in full beauty 
until very near the end of July. 
WisTarIA CHINENSIS. D.C.—Loudon, v. 2, 648. 
The oldest Wistaria here is one against the 
garden wall near the greenhouse, planted, I 
believe, in 1825, but I can find no note of it in 
my father’s papers. The height of the wall is 
not great, but the branches spread along it to 
a great length, and on the other side along the 
roofs of the range of greenhouses ; and the growth 
is most luxuriant and beautiful. One branch has 
been trained into the greenhouse through a small 
opening, and it is striking to see that this branch 
always comes into flower and leaf some weeks 
earlier than the rest of the plant to which it 
belongs. 
This statement is no longer correct, since the 
construction of our new greenhouses and the 
demolition of the old (1875). 
This plant suffered very much in the earlier 
part of 1875; not so much I think from actual 
frost, as from the long-continued drought of the 
previous summer, followed up by the dry, cold 
of the winter and early spring. 
Two very fine Wistarias are in the arboretum ; 
