DESORIPTIVE LIST OF FLOWERING SHRUBS. 479 
WISTARIA. 
UNamed by Nuttall, in honor of Dr. Caspar Wistar.] 
W. Sinénsis.—The Chinese Wistaria.—This, which is 
sometimes called Glycine, is one of the most’ magnificent 
climbing shrubby plants in cultivation. It was formerly 
treated, at the North, as a tender plant, and might be 
seen trained to the rafters of the green house, in full flow- 
er, in March, with its thousands of rich clusters, or pendu- 
lous racemes of delicate pale-purple blossoms, so numerous 
that the whole space it occupied seemed to be covered 
with them. Each raceme is from ten to twelve inches 
long, and densely filled with its delicate and richly per- 
fumed flowers. It is easily raised from cuttings or layers. 
Tn the open ground, we have known it to make a growth 
of thirty feet in one season; and, with us, has not failed, 
excepting one year in the last twelve, to produce an abun- 
dant bloom, and that without the least protection. The 
December previous to the year in which it did not bloom, 
was a very warm one. The buds prematurely started, 
and were winter killed; it however, flowered in August, 
but not so perfectly as it would have done in the spring. 
In another locality, in low ground, which is not well 
drained, the flower buds are frequently killed. The foliage 
is abundant, and its color a lively, pleasant hue of green. 
The flowers make their appearance before the foliage 
starts, the last of May, in the open ground. The plants 
for the first few years are somewhat tender, at the North, 
and should be laid down before the winter sets in, and 
covered with earth, or coarse manure, It grows freely in 
almost any soil; but to have strong plants, it is important 
to have a rich, deep loam. It will not flower till the plant 
gets strong. 
A new variety with white flowers, has been introduced 
from China into England, by Mr. Fortune, and can, at the 
present time, be obtained at many of our nurseries, 
