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graceful habit has charmed and cheered generations of gardeners. 
Japan and China, Siberia and North America produce the genus, 
and the hybridizer is still busy with them. I possess a few scattered 
about the garden, and best I like W. argentea variegata, a beautiful 
shrub with white and green foliage and pale rose-pink flowers. 
The Canadian, W. trifida, has yellow blossoms, but I know not if 
it is cultivated. The honey-yellow W. sessilifolia, from Eastern 
United States, is also a handsome plant. 
Westringia is an extra-tropical Australian, but W. rosmarini- 
formis, the Victorian Rosemary, will succeed in a sunny, well- 
drained corner with winter care. It is not a very showy shrub, but 
has a neat, crisp habit, and the little, labiate, white flowers are freely 
produced. 
Whipplea modesta is a tiny shrub—a high alpine from California. 
I have it in half shade in a moraine looking very unwell. 
Wistaria, named after Professor Caspar Wistar of Pennsylvania 
University, is a small genus, of which W. chinensis is the splendid 
and familiar climber. 'The Japanese variety is white, while W. multi- 
juga, also from Japan, has lavender racemes, much longer and 
thinner than the Chinese plant. An adult and prosperous W. multi- 
juga will give you tresses of two feet in length. There is no lovelier 
thing than this on a standard, or grown espalier fashion. A pink 
variety is now in cultivation. Of W. frutescens, the shrubby North 
American species, there are some fair hybrids, and I should dearly 
like to learn where Wistaria f. magnifica may be secured. 
Xanthoceras sorbifolia is an excellent monotypic species from 
China. Its delicate mountain-ash-like foliage is deciduous, and the 
flowers are white touched with crimson at the base and borne in 
simple racemes during April. This good and beautiful shrub will 
