THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 2G9 



compact, is vigorous, and produces a profusion of flowers throughout 

 the season. 



With reference to petunias, heliotropiums, ageratums, and other 

 odd subjects, it does not appear necessary to say much, for they are 

 of secondary importance, and no new kinds, possessing any merit, 

 have been added for some years past. 



A COMBINATION OF CLEMATIS AND ROSES. 



T is not my intention to ■write a treatise on the cultivation 

 of either roses or clematises, for although we have a 

 fair collection of both of these flowers, and usually have 

 a fine display of bloom during the summer season, I do 

 not consider myself competent to instruct others. Our 

 garden is of the old-i'ashioned type, with roses in abuudance every- 

 where, borders of choice herbaceous plants, and a few beds of summer 

 flowers, such as geraniums, verbenas, and similar plants. Our resi- 

 dence is also somewhat old-fashioned, and it would be difficult to 

 say to which architectural era it belongs. This point is a matter of 

 no consequence, and my object in writing to you about it is to say 

 that its walls are clothed with flowering plants, and, amongst other 

 things, roses and clematis have a place. We have some of the most 

 free-growing of the hybrid perpetuals trained over some part of the 

 walls, and we have some of the early summer-flowering clematis also, 

 but it is of neither of these that I wish to write. 



"What I am anxious the readers of the Floral World should 

 know is this. AVe have in front of our house two plants of Oloire de 

 Dijon rose, and the same number of Clematis Jackmanni, and these have 

 been so trained as to entirely cover the wall, which is forty feet long 

 and about twenty feet high. The shoots of the roses and the clematis 

 have been so intermingled, that the large, deliciously-scented cream- 

 coloured roses and the purple clematis are somewhat regularly inter- 

 mixed over the entire surface, and the effect is really magnificent, 

 and the majority of our friends consider it one of the most beautiful 

 combinations they have ever seen. 



I intend covering two large wire arches in the garden with roses 

 and clematis, and sliall, in November next, plant on each side of 

 the arch, a plant of both, and train them in much the same manner 

 as on the front of the house, and I believe that the effect will also 

 be exceedingly good. 



When we planted the roses and clematis against the house 

 some years since, we had a liberal quantity of good farmyard 

 manure dug in, and we have every winter-time applied a good 

 dressing of partly-decayed manure and covered it with soil to pre- 

 vent its being unsiglitly. Neither roses nor clematis will thrive 

 unless the soil is tolerably rich. The clematis requires to be pruned 

 well back avery winter, otherwise the bottom of the plants become 

 quite bare in the course of a few years. They should, in fact, be 

 pruned, so that there is an equal distribution of young growth all 

 over the plant. A Lady Subscribeb. 



September. 



