June 20, 1894.] 



Garden and Forest. 



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18 1 8. It grows to a height of six feet. It is emphatically 

 a plant for every garden, flowering in Way and June. 



Wistaria multijuga attracted considerable attention at 

 the Temple show last week, where a box of its long slen- 

 der flower-clusters was shown from the garden of the Hon. 

 W. F. D. Smith, Henley-on-Thames. It differs from W. 

 Sinensis in having smaller flowers, with shorter pedicels, a 

 looser arrangement, and in the length of the racemes, which 

 in some cases were nearly three feet long. It has long 

 been in cultivation at Kevv, but is scarcely known in gar- 

 dens. Although not so grand a climber as W. Sinensis, 

 which, by the way, has easily earned for itself this year the 

 right to be called the most beautiful Climber in cultivation 

 here, yet it has merit, and is worth a place on a wall or against 

 a tree in every good garden. It is, of course, Japanese, 

 and was first introduced into Europe in 1874, nearly sixty 

 years after VV. Sinensis came to us from China. 



flowers scarcely an inch in diameter, with small, globose, 

 reddish fruit, and that it is a very common and character- 

 istic shrub, forming with Amygdalus eburnea the greater 

 part of the scrub on the stony ridges of the Hariab district. 

 At Kew it is grown in the rock-garden, where its branches 

 are long and arched over ; crimson when young, and 

 clothed with broad-based spines, the leaves an inch long, 

 composed of about nine leaflets. The flowers are about as 

 large as those of the common field Buttercup, R. acris, with 

 five petals, a large cluster of stamens, the color being bright 

 buttercup-yellow. The branches are never erect, but hang 

 over, and they are now clothed with numerous flowers, the 

 effect being that of drooping slender racemes of yellow 

 flowers. It is a pretty little rose. 



Primula imperialis, the great yellow-tiered Primrose from 

 the Java mountains, is again in flower at Kew, where, it 

 will be remembered, it flowered for the first time in cultiva- 



Fig. 41. — The Monterey Cypresses (Cupressus macrocarpa), at Cypress Point, California. — See page 241 



[Wistaria multijuga is probably not a Japanese plant, 

 although it is the most commonly cultivated species in 

 Japanese gardens, but a native of China or Corea. The 

 common Wistaria of Japan is W. Sinensis, a native of all 

 mountain forests in the three southern islands, below ele- 

 vations of 5,000 feet. Wistaria multijuga flowers in this 

 country, where it is perfectly hardy as far north as eastern 

 Massachusetts, twelve or fifteen days later than W. Sinensis. 

 This makes it particularly valuable by prolonging the 

 flowering season of these plants. The flowers exhale a 

 delightful perfume, while those of W. Sinensis are nearly 

 scentless. — Ed.] 



Rosa xanthina was introduced to Kew about twelve years 

 ago by Dr. Aitchison from Afghanistan, and described as a 

 new species in the Journal of the Liimcean Society, where it 

 is called R. Eca3. Aitchison says it is a small stiff shrub 

 with numerous prickly stems, small leaves, and yellow 



tion four years ago. It is too tender to be grown in the 

 open air, nor can it endure bright sunlight, the happiest 

 position for it being on the shad}' side in a cool moist 

 greenhouse. A rich open soil, a liberal allowance of pot- 

 room and daily supplies of water are essential to its healthy 

 growth. Under this treatment the plants at Kew have 

 made large healthy foliage and pushed up scapes as thick 

 as a man's little finger, which will probably grow a yard 

 high. The flowers, which are rich yellow, are arranged in 

 whorls in tiers, as in P. Japonica. We have never suc- 

 ceeded in crossing P. imperialis with any other species. 

 Its nearest ally is P. prolifera, from the Himalayas, a 

 smaller and much less interesting plant. 



A traveling greenhouse is the latest English labor-saving 

 invention, and a company, the Horticultural Traveling 

 Structures Co., have taken out a patent for this, and air 

 taking considerable pains to bring it well into public 



