CLEMATIS. 95 



in general, be watered about three times in a week, but in 

 very hot and dry weather every evening. 



There are some few species of the Clematis which re- 

 quire artificial heat, but they are by far the least handsome. 

 The two last mentioned kinds may be increased by parting 

 the roots, which should be done either in October or Fe- 

 bruary. The roots may be cut through their crowns with 

 a sharp knife, taking care to preserve some good buds to 

 every ofF-set. 



The Clematis is as great a rambler as the Honeysuckle 

 itself: — 



" o'errun 

 By vines, and boundless clematis, (between 

 Whose wilderness of leaves, white roses peep'd) 

 And honeysuckle, which, with trailing boughs, 

 Dropp'd o'er a sward, grateful as ever sprung 

 By sprinkling fountains." 



Barry Cornwall. 



Mr. Keats makes mention of the Clematis in a passage, 

 of which, as it relates entirely to flowers, it may, perhaps, 

 be allowable to quote the whole. He describes a youth 

 sleeping in a bower walled with myrtle : 



*' Above his head 

 Four lily-stalks did their white honours wed. 

 To make a coronal, and round him grew 

 All tendrils green, of every bloom and hue. 

 Together intertwined, and trammel'd fresh : 

 The vine of glossy sprout ; the ivy-mesh. 

 Shading its Ethiop berries ; and woodbine 

 Of velvet leaves, and bugle blooms divine ; 

 Convolvulus in streaked vases flush ; 

 The creeper, mellowing for an autumn blush ; 

 And virgin's bower, trailing airily. 

 With others of the sisterhood." 



Endymion, p. 72. 



