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up in my report, and probably when that is read the discussion might be brought forward 

 "with regard to the Clematis. 



The President. — If you are ready, I would suggest that we have your report. 



Mr. Wellington. — It is not ready yet, but will be in a few minutes. 



Mr. Willard, being called on, said : I do not know of anything new in regard to 

 Clematis. I do not know that I can say much to the edification of the gentlemen present, 

 except that I yet think there has nothing been brought out in the shape of a coloured 

 Clematis that is superior to the Jackmanii. There may be others being brought out in 

 England that will supercede it, There are white ones that are desirable, but I do not 

 think any of them have met the views of the people so well as the Jackmanii. 



Mr. Beadle. — I think Mr. Wellington has probably told us correctly that his report 

 last winter has covered the ground very fully, and I only wish to emphasize one point with 

 regard to it. As far as my experience goes it is this — that I think our Canadian people 

 will be more likely to succeed well with those vai-ieties that bloom upon the new wood. 

 There are two classes of these Clematis. One variety blooms upon the new wood, and the 

 other upon the old wood. In the family that bloom upon the new wood, even though 

 they should get somewhat injured by the Avinter, or by any other cause, the young wood will 

 throw out its shoots — from the I'oot even — and bloom freely throughout the summer ; and 

 if well fed, so as to be kept vigorously growing, they will keep on blooming all through 

 the season, with very little intermission. I fear that if our buyers and planters should get 

 on to the varieties that bloom from the old wood they might be disappointed ; perhaps 

 the plants might get winter killed in some severe winters. 



Mr. Saunders. — I admire the Clematis very much as a class of plants, and have 

 found them very satisfactory indeed as far as the culture of them has gone with me. I 

 have not had many varieties. I have had the Jackmanii for a long time, and that is one 

 of the most satisfactory of all. I have had Tunbridgensis, and it is another one that I 

 have found very good indeed. I have also had two white ones, which I cannot recollect 

 the names of just at the present moment. There is another variety of Clematis that is 

 extremely hardy and very ornamental when in fruit. I have forgotten the name of it for 

 the moment. The flower is yellow, and when in fruit it becomes a mass of those delicate 

 feathery fruit heads, which are of a very brilliant silvery cast. When the sun shines on 

 them they pi'esent a very beautiful appearance. We have it in our Mount Pleasant 

 Cemetery in London, and it is one of the things which attract the most attention, I think, 

 of any growing on the ground while it is in seed. The flower is inconspicuous — a 

 dull yellow — and while it is in flower it does not attract much attention. Our native 

 Clematis, the Virginana, blooms profusely, and has quite a pretty flower. It is very useful 

 as a covering for unsightly objects. Then there is a bluish purple one that is native to 

 this country, that grows from Maine to Wisconsin, called the Bordicillerous, which we 

 have cultivated to some extent. But there is none of them that is so handsome or so 

 wonderfully covered with blossoms as the Jackmanii. I h^ve found no trouble in growing 

 them, they grow without protection. They shoot up from the base every year, they 

 usually die down to the ground, and send up new shoots which blossom on the wood, 

 commencing, I think, about the beginning of July, and continuing blooming for about two 

 months, during which the plants are perfect pictures of beauty. 



Mr. Wellington here read the report of the Committee on Climbers. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CLIMBERS. 



Nothing in the floral world has added more to its beauties or is more varied in their 

 uses than the long list of climbing plants of various kinds, and yet no class of plants are 

 more neglected than many of our most valuable climbers — whether it be the " Ivy Green " 

 of the old song, the magnificient and brilliant beauty of the gay Clematis, the graceful 

 Wistaria, the modest Honeysuckle with its wealth of intoxicating fragrance, or the odd, 



