THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 13L 



ful, and bits the truth of nature as nearly as art can do. The flowers 

 are four or five inches in diameter, the colour richest violet purple, 

 with a reddish purple band in the centre of each petal. It is pro- 

 bably the finest clematis yet raised. 



Lady Caroline Nevill produces flowers of great size, often seven 

 inches in diameter. The colour is a most delicate lavender-tinted 

 blush, with broad purplish lilac band in the centre of each petal. 



Tunbridgensis has flowers averaging five inches in diameter ; the 

 form perfect ; the colour dark blue, shaded with purple. The neat 

 growth and abundant flowering of this variety render it a first-rate 

 bedding plant. 



The three foregoing splendid novelties are now being offered for 

 the first time at 21s. per plant by Messrs. Cripps and Son, the Nur- 

 series, Tunbridge Wells. The varieties which follow may be obtained 

 generally in the trade at two or three shillings each, or less. 



Jac/cmani, one of the most interesting, because the type of the 

 new race, and one of the first among mauy splendid varieties obtained 

 by Messrs. Jackman, of Woking. The flowers average six inches 

 across, the colour violet purple. 



Rubro-violacea, brilliant reddish violet, makes a remarkably fine 

 bed. 



Viticella ametliystina, pale violet blue, very distinct. Fine for 

 beds or specimens. 



Magnified, flowers very large, colour soft purple, with reddish 

 bars, which give to the flower a star-like appearance. Fine for con- 

 servatory specimens. 



Prince of Wales, flowers very large and produced in great abun- 

 dance ; colour deep purple, with red bars. 



Rubella, a remarkably fine variety, producing an astonishing 

 profusion of massive flowers of a solemn claret colour. For speci- 

 men culture and for trellises this cannot be surpassed. 



Lanuginosa pallida, clear lilac, with reddish bars, makes a fine 

 bed. 



Lanuginosa Candida, pure white, a good companion to the fore- 

 going. 



Velutina purpurea, flowers very large, colour rich maroon-purple. 



This is the best time in the whole year to purchase and plant 

 clematis. The plants are kept in pots at the nurseries, and are 

 generally of sufficient size to produce a good effecL the first season 

 if they are put out at not more than three feet apart. Those to be 

 grown in pots or tubs should be shifted at once into the pots they 

 are to flower in, and placed in a sheltered, but sunny spot out of 

 doora. It would be well to allow all the growth to remain, and train 

 it in carefully to make the most of the plants the first season. We 

 should allow them to remain in the same pots two seasons, giving 

 them weak liquid manure the second season when growing freely. 

 In the autumn of the second season, it would be well to shake them 

 out and repot in pots one or two sizes larger with fresh light soil, and 

 in the succeeding spring they might be severely pruned to promote 

 a free growth of young shoots for the production of flowers of fine 

 quality. S. H. 



