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AND HORTICULTURlbT. 



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flowered climbers ; flowers singly, from the ripen- 

 ed wood of the previous year's growth ; mostly 

 light colored flowers ; May and June out of doors. 



The Florida Group. — Large flowers from the 

 ripened wood of the previous year's growth; but 

 making a longer growth than the Patens before 

 flowering, and consequently flowering later; June 

 and July. As grown now, mostly double flowers 

 and often sweet scented. 



Graveolens Group. — Mostly rampant climbers, 

 small flowers, often in large panicles; July to 

 September. 



Lanuginosa Group. — Large flowers, six to eight 

 sepals ; 6 to ()]{ inches diameter ; climbing ; 

 blooming successionally summer and autumn. 

 Flowers on short lateral summer shoots, dispersed 

 and continuous. This group is divided into early 

 and late bloomers ; June to October. 



Viticella Group. — Mostly large-flowered climb- 

 ers ; blooming in continuous masses on long sum- 

 mer shoots ; July to October. 



The Jackmanni Group — are large-flowered 

 climbers ; blooming successionally in summer and 

 autumn, in continuous masses. This group make 

 a long and strong summer growth before flower- 

 ing, hence a little later in coming into bloom. 

 They are divided into early and late bloomers. 

 They begin flowering about the first of July and 

 continue till the frosts kill their foliage and flowers 

 in October or November. A slight frost does not 

 hurt them. They will bear about as much frost 

 as a grapevine. 



Ccerulea odorata G^r(7«/.— Non-climbing ; sub- 

 shrubby ; flowering on summer shoots ; July to 

 September. 



Erecta Group. — Non-climbing; herbaceous; 

 flowering, June to September. 



These two latter groups are not very fashiona- 

 ble in this country, so far as I have seen, though 

 a few have been grown for many years. 



I will endeavor to name a few kinds from two 

 or three of the principal groups; but, of course, a 

 full description cannot be given for want of space. 



Patens Group. — Albert Victor, deep lavender ; 

 Fair Rosamond, bluish-white ; Lord Gifford, rosy 

 lilac ; Lady Londesborough, silver-gray ; Miss 

 Bateman, pure white ; Mrs. Quilter, white. 



Florida Group. — Aurora, semi-double, pinkish- 

 lilac ; Countess of Lovelace, double, bluish-lilac ; 

 Duchess of Edinburgh, double, pure white ; John 

 Gould Veitch, double, lavender-blue ; Lucie 

 Lemoine, double, white ; Venus Victrix, double, 

 pale-mauve. 



Lanuginosa Group. — Alba Magna, finest white ; 

 Angelina, pale bluish-mauve ; Blue Gem, pale 

 coerulean-blue ; William Kennett, bluish-lavender; 

 Duchess of Teck, white ; Fairy Queen, pale flesh 

 color ; Henryi, beautiful creamy-white ; Lawson- 

 iana, rosy-purple. 



Viticella Group. — Lady Bovill, soft grayish- 

 blue ; Madam Grange, maroon crimson ; Mrs. 

 James Bateman, reddish-lilac ; Viticella rubra 



grandiflora, claret-crimson ; Viticella venosa, red- 

 dish-purple. 



Jackmanni Group. — Prince of Wales, deep 

 puce-purple ; Alexandra, reddish-violet ; Gipsy 

 Queen, dark velvety purple ; Guiding Star, claret- 

 crimson ; Jackmanni, intense violet-purple ; Ru- 

 bella, deep velvety claret-purple. 



Rochester, N. Y. 



[A chapter on the diseases of the Clematis 

 would be a welcome supplement to this excellent 

 communication. — Ed. G. M.] 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



New Styles of Chrv3.a.nthemums. — One 

 would have thought that after the immense variety 

 florists have produced, there was room for no 

 more new styles among Chrysanthemums. But 

 the French have produced a race that has the ray 

 petals hang down closely around the flower stem 

 like silk, while the " anemone " formed crown 

 represents the button of a tassel. In one of 

 these recently raised, the silken threads as we may 

 call them, extend down 5 inches, while the 

 crown represents a perfect hemisphere 4 inches 

 across. This variety is called Fabias de Mad- 

 ernaz. 



Platycodon gr.\ndiflorum. — Herbaceous 

 plants have — many of them — strange habits of 

 dying unaccountably, and leaving their places in 

 the flower border without our knowledge. But 

 there are some very beautiful things that have the 

 faculty of holding on in spite of all vicissitudes, 

 and one of the bell-flowers, Campanula grandi- 

 flora, or Platycodon grandiflora, as botanists 

 prefer to call it, is one of these. There is a white 

 and a blue variety. 



Fringed Petunias. — These are coming into 

 popularity. The edges of the corolla are fringed 

 like soma pinks, and being double they have a 

 unique appearance. 



HVACINTHUS CANDICANS. — In reference to this 

 plant, noted specially by Mr. Krelaage in his 

 interesting paper on bulb collections in our last, 

 Mr. Baines says in the Gardeners' Magazine : 



"The Galtonia, generally known as Hyacinthus 

 candicans, is invaluable for the cool-house. For 

 late summer flowering, few plants look better in a 

 house of this kind ; its tall spikes of large white 

 bells are particularly effective when stood in front 

 of dark green-leaved plants such as camellias, 

 and other things of a like character, and which 

 play a principal part amongst the permanent oc- 

 cupants. The plants should be placed singly in 

 eight or nine-inch pots, in good loam, with a little 



