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WISTARIA. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



WULFENIA. 



duced and so far the most beautiful. Its 

 single and double white forms are beautiful, 

 although neither of them have the freedom of 

 the true plant. The double blue form is a 

 poor thing, liable to damage in wet weather. 



In the VAR. MACROBOTRYS the flowers are 

 of a paler shade of blue-purple, and the 

 racemes are longer, the flowers being farther 

 apart. A variegated form is not worth a place. 



W. BRACHYBOTRYS. Although nearly 

 seventy years since a Wistaria under this name 



The White Wistaria, Tresserve. 



was brought to Europe from Japan by Siebold, 

 but little can be said of it. Judging by published 

 figures, it appears to be a dwarf variety of W. 

 chineiisis, with racemes of the same blue- 

 purple flowers, only shorter, as the specific 

 name suggests. Var. alba has been spoken 

 highly of in the United States, but I have 

 never seen it. 



W. MULTIJUGA (Japanese Glycine). A 

 very beautiful plant with racemes often 

 between 2 ft. and 3 ft. long, flowering a 



fortnight later than the Chinese Glycine, the 

 blossoms much less closely packed on the 

 spikes. The colour varies in different plants, 

 but it is always a variation of delicate lilac and 

 white. The variety alba has flowers wholly 

 white, and there are two forms of the plant in 

 cultivation, one with shorter racemes. The 

 newest form is one called rosea, with flowers 

 of a delicate shade of rosy-lilac. Variety 

 Russelliana has dark flowers with a pale 

 central blotch. 



W. JAPONICA. The rare climber, some- 

 times met with under this name really belongs 

 to the closely allied genus Millettia. The 

 flowers appear in small racemose clusters in 

 June and July, and are white. 



W. FRUTESCENS. This is the only species 

 found wild in the New World. It is a 

 climber, but not a strong grower, the 

 flowers pale blue-purple, arranged densely in 

 racemes 3 ins. to 8 ins. long in June. There 

 are two varieties in cultivation, one, magnifica, 

 has racemes over I ft. in length ; the second is 

 a white form. W. J. B. 



WOODSIA. These pretty deciduous 

 hardy Ferns are admirably suited for 

 a northern position in the alpine or rock- 

 garden. They are impatient of sunshine, 

 and drainage should receive special 

 attention. They should have a mixture 

 of fibry peat and loam, which has some 

 broken-up sandstone mixed with it. It is 

 a good plan to place Woodsias between 

 little blocks of sandstone which just peep 

 out of the soil. These blocks of stone 

 could be covered with Sedums and other 

 flowering rock plants. The best hardy 

 species are W. ilvensis and W. alpina ; 

 there is also a very beautiful North 

 American kind named W. obtusa. 



WOODWARDIA. Noble ferns, of 

 which a few are hardy. All are hand- 

 some, with broad beautifully arching 

 fronds, which are especially ornamental if 

 seen a little above the level of the eye. 

 Woodwardias thrive under the ordinary 

 conditions of the hardy fernery, and 

 succeed in a shady position if they have a 

 light peaty soil that is moist in summer 

 The principal hardy kinds are W. areolata 

 (an^ustifolia} and W, virginica, both from 

 N. America ; W. japonica and W. orien- 

 talis, from Japan ; and W. radicans from 

 Madeira. IV. radicans is the tenderest, 

 and requires a sheltered position, and 

 perhaps protection in severe cold. 



WULFENIA. W. carinthiaca is a re- 

 markably dwarf, almost stemless evergreen 

 herb, bearing in 'summer showy spikes, 12 

 to 1 8 in. high, of drooping purplish-blue 

 flowers. Found only on one or two moun- 

 tains in Carinthia. It is a pretty plant 

 for rock-gardens or borders, but should 

 have a light moist sandy loam. W. Am- 

 herstiana from the Himalayas, similar but 



