Gardening in California 



WISTARIA. 



This beautiful Spring-flowering climber is so 

 well known as hardly to require any description. 

 The genus contains about five species. Wistaria 

 speciosa is a native of North America and blooms 

 a month later than Wistaria Sinensis, a native of 

 China, which is the species most grown. Wistaria 

 Japonica and Wistaria mutijuga, (the former 

 bearing white flowers and the latter lilac flowers 

 with purple wings) are natives of Japan. These 

 again have varieties which bear double flowers. 

 The Wistaria delights in a light and rich soil, 

 and, if given this, will produce branches sometimes 

 a hundred feet in length on each side of the main 

 stem, giving gorgeous masses of bloom in the 

 early Spring. 



The Wistaria forms great bundles of small growths which 

 often become matted under the eaves of buildings or about the 

 stems of old trees. Where they grow freely, these matted 

 growths should, in Winter, or before growth commences in early 

 Spring, be carefully disentangled and all of the weaker growths 

 should be pruned back to a strong spur or bud, the remaining 

 branches being laid in and fastened by ties to the wall or other 

 support, not closer together, however, than twelve inches. 



Propagation of the Wistaria is effected most easily by seeds 

 sown during early Spring, one-half of an inch deep, in a warm 

 frame or greenhouse, or by layering in June. 



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