WISTA RIA FRUTESCENS. 
FRUTESCENT WISTARIA. 
Order. 
DECANDRIA- 
Natural Order. 
LEG OMINOSiE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
N. America. 
10 feet. 
June, Aug. 
Perennial. 
in 1724. 
No. 386. 
This plant was named in honour of Caspar 
Wistar, a scientific professor at Pennsylvania. 
Frutescens, from the Latin, signifying shrubby. 
It is a beautiful climber, which, like its conge- 
ner, Wistaria Consequana, formerly Glycine Sinen- 
sis, spreads more slowly through English gardens, 
than in these days of botanical vigilance would be 
imagined. Their having been known as green- 
house plants, seems to have formed a bar to the 
extension of their acquaintance as hardy climbing 
shrubs. The Wistaria frutescens is, however, per- 
fectly so, and from its great beauty should have a 
place in every garden, where a wall with a good 
aspect can be allotted to its growth. It is more 
hardy than Wistaria Consequana, and its flowers 
being produced later in the season, they are less 
liable to injury from spring frosts. 
Planted in loam and peat, against a southerly 
wall, it will grow more freely, and the cultivator may 
expect to be highly gratified by its rich display of 
beautiful flowers. It is usually propagated by cut- 
tings of the young wood, planted in sand, or very 
sandy compost, on a hotbed, under a hand-glass. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 4, 298, 
Class. 
DIADELPHIA. 
