RANUNCULACEAE 49 
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Manunculaceae, Papaberaceae, Cruciferae 
I am tired, I declare, of waiting for my herbaceous 
Clematises to bloom. I had integrifolia and Fremonti 
from seed, under promise of splendours to come; yet 
though I have nursed them for years I have never seen a 
bloom. recta, though, and the larger heracleaefola 
are fine, handsome herbaceous plants, leafy and large, 
with abundance of flower-clusters, like masses of wee 
blue Hyacinths. As for the large climbing species of 
this notable race, they have no place in the rock-garden, 
unless you have a vast space to cover, and trees for them 
to make a jungle of. ‘This is just where both my gardens 
fall short, so that I have never, except in the ordinary 
garden, been able to use beautiful things like Clematis 
grata, Henryr, tangutica, Viticella, Jackmanni, and 
lanuginosa, all of which should make a foaming back- 
ground of white and gold and violet to the huge block- 
built rockery that slopes up to a brow of coppice or 
wood. However, if I lack Clematis, I have Atragene ; 
and Atragene is to all practical purposes indistinguish- 
able from Clematis. My plants of the American Atra- 
gene verticillata are yet but young ; the European Alpina, 
however, gives me more and more delight every year. It 
is a slight trailer, and I have found it, in seed, meandering 
among the bushes in the Maritime Alps, just below the 
level of the Primulas. In early summer it produces 
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