in.sTAlUA. li) 



ex([Uisitely lovely plant wliru in Hower, and as hardy every 

 way as the blue nr jimple form liere hgured. 



Having- gTuwn wistarias in several kinds cf soils, we are 

 bound to say they are not at all partieular. A dee]., rich, 

 warm loam of a liyht charaeler is perliaps the Ijest soil l-,,r 

 the purpose, but they thrive in peat, in peaty sand, and on 

 all kinds of hiams that are warm and well drained; and 

 where the natural soil is a heavy, tenacious clay, a border 

 should lie prepared on a well-drained foundation for the 

 growth of a o-ood wistaria. The plant occasionally produces 

 seed-pods and ripe seeds; Init as these are not common, the 

 nurserymen learned long- since that ])ropagation by layers 

 is at once an easy and an expeditious mode of proceeding. 



Although a foreigner of recent introduction, the wis- 

 taria has ac(|uired in this country a certain degree of dig- 

 nity as an historical tree, and one closely associated with 

 individual lives and memories. Some, perhajjs, among our 

 readers may be reminded of the magnificent specimen that 

 ran far under the shelter of a venerable verandah in the 

 garden of the late Sir Joseph Paxton at Roe.khills, ad- 

 joining the Crystal Palace at Sydenham. The standard 

 wistarw at C(.ithelstone, hgured m the (:lLiriIt'ni'r'.\ Mcii/a- 

 :nie, June 27, fStiS, is as truly a family tree, and as dear 

 ti,) its possessors, as any of the patrician laurels that were 

 subjects of eulogy with Roman poets and orators. There 

 is a most noble tree of the kind in the Royal Gardens, 

 Kew, and it may be easily found, for it is near the Temple 

 of the Sun and the first block of j^lant-houses. This is 

 trained on a great circular cage of poles and bars. The 

 flowers display a fuller tone of colour than those of trees 

 trained to walls, and the artificial training is excused Ijy 

 the fact that it is just in such a way that the tree is 



