WISTARIA 



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(fh/i'ifie Shici 



HE nanip here given is tliat 

 under wliieh tlie ])lant was 

 first described l)y Dr. Jolm 

 Sims, in the Bofniiinil Mui/ii- 

 :n,,', ]S10 (t. ■■l,m\\). Tt has 

 been \arionsl3' described as 

 // ixfar'ni Siiienmix and IJia- 

 liiriii voiiHCij^iiaiid ; bnt the 

 rightful name is the CUiinese 

 glyeiiu' {(rli/cine SUii'uh'ih) . 



Tliis glcirions, hardy elim- 

 l)er was Ijronght from China 

 by Captain Welliauk, in the 

 year 181 (1, and was first 

 grown and flowered in the 

 garden of Charles Hampden 

 Turner, Esq. ,K,ook^s-nest Park, 

 near ftodstone, in Surrey, 

 and it was through Alexan- 

 a der ^McLeA'v, Esq., that Dr. 



Sims obtained a spray of the flowers for his drawing. The 

 story of the flrst attemjit in growing the plant is paralleled 

 by many instances. It was first kept in the peaeh-liouse, 

 in a tenijieraiiire of Sf", where it was very soon all Ijut 



