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wistaria. It flowers about the middle of 
June and should be pruned in early spring. 
Remove all very weak, thin shoots; otherwise 
the culture should be the same as for the spring- 
flowering wistaria. 
On places where there is but a small strip of 
lawn between the house and highway, it is not 
infrequently a hard matter to find something to 
break up the monotony of the stretch of plain, 
green grass. It is too small a space for a flower 
bed, and just the place where a specimen shrub 
or tree looks stiff. ‘The plant for such a location 
is the short-clustered wistaria (W. brachybotrys). 
This is very dwarf, six feet being the limit, but, 
grown in a good, sunny location, as a headed-in 
standard, it cannot be beaten. The flowers 
are light purple and are freely borne about the 
middle of July. There is also a white type 
(var. alba), and a beautiful red one (var. rubra). 
The climbing hydrangea (H. petiolaris) is a 
slow vine to establish itself, but, once worked up 
to the flowering stage, there are few vines to 
approach it. Its masses of small, white flowers 
cause it slightly to resemble the clematis, but 
it is the better of the two for some purposes, as 
jt is a natural rootlet climber and can be used 
for stone or brick buildings. It will not cling 
