THE WISTARIA SINENSIS. 
which has been had of it in the open ground fully proves. By efficient pruning, 
it will acquire, when at the height of ten or twelve feet, such a number of lateral 
branches about a foot long, that, after it has reached this state, it will bear nothing 
but blooming spurs ; or, if it occasionally send out a few of its long slender shoots, 
these will only serve to increase its beauty during the summer, and may be easily 
pruned away in winter. 
Treated as a dwarf shrub, and cultivated in a pot, it is, moreover, an extremely 
managable plant, and makes a very agreeable thing for a show-house, as well on 
account of its actual interest, as because the fragrance of its blossoms can thus be 
better enjoyed. "What can be accomplished with it in this manner is yet, to many, 
a pure speculation ; but the specimens which have here and there appeared at 
public exhibitions show that the most satisfactory results have been obtained. As 
in the cases before spoken of, pruning is the means by which it can be brought 
into this dwarf condition, and since it grows in the commonest soil, the compost 
supplied to it in a pot should be of the simplest nature, such as ordinary garden 
earth, while the pot itself should not be too capacious. 
In alluding to the Wistaria as a pot plant, we would not, however, pass by its 
capabilities for forcing, under such circumstances. Most cultivators have seen how 
nicely this plant develops itself under the stimulus of a slight heat, when trained 
over the roof of a Camellia-house or warm conservatory, where a little artificial 
warmth is used. Fully as free would, therefore, most likely be its developments 
as a forced plant in a pot. And when its attractions for such an object are 
considered, it will, we think, ere long be frequently subjected to the experiment. 
We have long looked upon this species as likely to prove one of the most 
valuable accessions to our present rather limited stock of forcing plants, and we 
should rejoice if any hint of ours brought it more under notice in this respect. 
Its recommendations are freedom in the production of flowers, great showiness, 
and an exquisite fragrance. It is also a plant which would, doubtless, soon 
become so habituated to forcing, that the same specimens would answer year after 
year, and even become improvingly fit for the process. 
Another end to which it might be applied in greenhouses or conservatories, 
is, trailing over rockeries or rustic work. To give it its due efi*ect in these positions, 
the shoots should occasionally be plunged under one or more of the stones, or other 
material, and issue again in the next patch of soil as a fresh plant. Such a pro- 
ceeding, beyond securing the plant more firmly, and hiding the naked portion of 
its branches, and harmonizing its general aspect more thoroughly with the character 
of the rockery, and helping to throw out the bolder forms and outlines of the latter, 
would further conduce to the shrubbiness and fertility of the specimen. And as no 
rain occurs in a plant-house, as it does in the open air, to dash up the earth around 
its beautiful flowers and mar their appearance, the fact of their lying, in some 
instances, so near to the earth, would be in no degree objectionable. 
To precisely the same purposes which we have noted in connexion with 
