No. 133.] - 471* 



WISTARIA, 



AccordiDg to Lindley, in the vegetable kingdom belongs to the 

 Fabacea or Bean Bearers. The botanist Nuttall called this vine 

 Wistaria, in honor of Caspar Wistar, professor of anatomy in the 

 University of Pennsylvania. They are natives of China and North 

 America. They flourish in Great Britain. They are deciduous 

 (leaves fall off) twining plants, and form, when in flower, the 

 handsomest flower of the garden. 



Wistaria Frutescens, or fruit bearing Wistaria : an elegant 

 climbing plant. Flowers odoriferous ; opening from July to Sep- 

 tember. Is a native of Virginia, the Carolinas and Illinois. The 

 standard has a greenish yellow spot at its base. 



Wistaria Chinensis or Chinese Wistaria, is a native of China. It 

 was carried to England in 1816, where it flowers in May and 

 June, and then again in August. From the first one imported, a 

 cutting was placed in the garden of the horticultural society of 

 Chiswick, where it is trained on a wall eleven feet high, and its 

 branches extend on each side to the distance of one hundred feet, 

 nearly. It is very hardy and will soon become a universal favo- 

 rite. It was originally Glycene Chinensis — a name which it still 

 bears in some places. 



Wiitaria Floribunda : an elegant plant; native of Japan, not 

 yet introduced here, or in Europe. It is the Dolichos Polysta- 

 chos of Thunberg. Wistaria is easy to cultivate by layers, or by 

 cuttings. Flourishes most in light soils, and is best when trained 

 on south walls. 



Noble specimens of Wistaria have been cultivated by John J. 

 Palmer, president of the Merchants' bank, and by Augustin 

 Averill. The vine of the latter is, we believe, of an hundred 

 feet in height — the vine being for the most part of a size, as uni- 

 form as a rope. The large bunches of lilac-colured flowers ap- 

 pear to cover it by thousands. 



The Secretary read the following translation made by him from 

 Revue Scientijique, Paris, on chemical classification of organic 

 substances, by professor Gerhadt, of Montpelier. 



