648 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART iIt. 
in 3 or 4 years, if planted in good soil, and in a favourable exposure it will 
attain the height of 20 ft. or 30 ft. It is readily propagated by cuttings of 
the root and by layers. Plants, in the London nurseries, are 1s. 6d. each ; 
at Bollwyller, 1 franc 15 cents; and at New York 373 cents. 
2 2. W. cutne’nsis Dec. The Chinese Wistaria. 
Identification. Dec. Prod., 2. p. 390. ; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 348. 
Synonymes. Gl¥cine chinénsis Sims Bot. Mag., t. 2083.; G. sinénsis Ker Bot. Reg., t. 650. ; Wistaria 
Consequina Loudon Gard. Mag., vol. ii. p. 422., vol. xi. p. 111., and in Hort. Brit. 
Engravings. Swt. Brit. Fl.-Gard., t,211.; Bot. Mag., t. 2083,; Bot. Reg., t. 650. ; Lodd. Bot. Cab., 
t.773.; Gard. Mag., vol. ii. p. 422.; and our fig. 360. ’ 
Spec. Char., Sc. _ Wings of the corolla each 
with one auricle. Ovary villose. Flowers 
larger. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 390.) A vigorous- 
growing deciduous twiner ; a native of China, 
introduced in 1816; flowering in British gar- 
dens in May and June, and sometimes pro- 
ducing a second crop of flowers in August. 
The flowers are larger than those of W. fru- 
téscens: they are disposed in longer and 
looser racemes, and are somewhat paler in 
colour. On established plants they are pro- 
duced in great abundance ; but they have not 
yet been succeeded by seeds in England. 
This plant may truly be considered the most 
magnificent of all our hardy deciduous climb- 
ers. It will grow wherever the common 360 
laburnum will flourish ; but, as its flowers are somewhat more tender than 
those of that tree, they are more liable to be injured by frosts in very 
late springs. It was first brought to England by Capt. Robert Wel- 
banke, in May, 1816; and in the same month, but a few days later, 
another plant was introduced by Capt. Richard Rawes. Both were ob- 
tained from the garden of Consequa, a generous, but unfortunate, mer- 
chant of Canton, of whom a biography will be found in the Gard. Mag., 
vol. xi. p. 111. One of the imported plants is ina pit in the garden of 
Rook’s Nest, near Godstone in Surrey; but it is small when compared 
with one raised from it, which every one, who has ever entered the garden 
of the London Horticultural Society in May or June, for some years past, 
must have been struck with seeing against the wall. That plant has now 
(March, 1835) a stem the height of the wall (11 ft.), from which branches 
proceed on one side to the distance of 90 ft., and on the other to the 
distance of 70 ft. So vigorous is this plant, that there is no reason to 
suppose it will not, if allowed, extend to double or treble that’ distance. 
There can be no doubt but it is the most vigorous-growing, and abundant- 
flowering climber in British gardens. Plants, which were originally sold at 
six guineas, now cost, in the London nurseries, from 1s. 6d. to 2s. 6d. each ; 
at Bollwyller, they are 3 francs; and at New York, 3 dollars. 
App. i. Other Species of Wistaria. 

W. floribinda Dec. Prod., 2. p.390,; Délichos polystachyus Thun. Jap., 281. ; Houtt. Pf. Syst., 8. 
p. 563. t. 64. fig. 2.; Glycine floribtinda Willd. ; Dolichos japonicus Spreng. ; Fidsi Kempf. ; has the 
stems and leaves glabrous, the racemes of flowers very long, and the corolla purple and white mixed. 
This species has not been introduced, though it was conjectured by Mr. Sweet that the shoots from 
the roots of an imported plant in the Fulham Nursery might be of this species, because the leaves 
were quite different from those of the upper part of the plant, being hairy, while the others were 
smooth. Mr. Sweet thought it likely that one species had been grafted on another; but it has since 
been observed, that all the root-shoots-from vigorous plants have hairy leaves. On these grounds it 
was that W. floribinda was recorded into our Hortus Britannicus as having been introduced in 
1820, and described there as a trailer, with shoots 10 ft. in length. On similarly slight foundations, 
we have no doubt, many species have been recorded both at home and abroad. In the year 1829, we 
brought over some plants, and a packet of seeds, from Carlsruhe, the produce of a plant growing there 
against the end of a hot-house, flowering freely, and producing seeds every yeay This plant had 
been received by M. Hartweg, the director of the garden, as the Gl¥cine chinensis of Bot. Mag., 
t. 2083.; and, as when we saw itin November, 1828, it was without leaves, it appeared to us uncertain 
whether it was correctly named or not. Some of the plants raised from the seeds which we brought 
over, and gave to the Clapton Nursery, have'since flowered and ripened seeds in the garden of F, Ber- 
nasconi, Esq., near Pinner (See Gard. Mag., vol. xii. p.75. and p, 215.) : but we received this in- 
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