140 ON THE TREATMENT OF THE CLEMATIS SIEBOLDII. 



Pierrot, feathered byblomen. La Belle Nanette, extra fine ditto. 



Andromeda, bizarre. Catafalque, very fine. 



Magna Mater Florum, bizarre. Clio, flamed rose. 



In this list there are some old faces, hut, as they were fine, I was 

 tempted to purchase, although I possessed a stock of them. 



In London I visited several fine collections, particularly Mr. 

 Groom's. Amongst his breeders was broke a fine feathered by Wo- 

 men, superior to any other flower in his collection, and a Polyphemus, 

 extra fine feathered, and one flamed. Prince Albert is a very pale 

 yellow ground coloured flower, neither white nor yellow, possessing 

 very fine properties, but not to be compared to his byblomen. 



There were some fine Pompes Funebres (or, as I think it will 

 turn out, Catafalque flamed,) as well as many others, the names of 

 which I did not take down at the time, as I purposed to have gone 

 down the day following had the weather been favourable. 



England, after all, may challenge any country for good and new 

 varieties of Tulips. She has left them all behind, and will maintain 

 her superiority. 



ARTICLE II. 



ON THE TREATMENT OF THE CLEMATIS SIEBOLDII. 



BY T. B. P., AN UNDER GARDENER,' ROEIIVMFT0N, SURREY. 



On the perusal of the Miscellaneous Intelligence in the April num- 

 ber of the Cabinet, I observed one of your numerous correspondents 

 soliciting the favour of some one who could inform him of the 

 best mode of cultivating that justly-admired plant, the Clematis 

 Sicboldii, on which I beg leave to offer these few remarks, not pre- 

 suming to lay them down as which no gardener should deviate from, 

 but which, if followed, I am certain will give the greatest satisfaction. 

 As soon as the plant has done flowering, I gradually withdraw its 

 supply of water, so as only to give it sufficient to keep it alive, 

 keeping it thus until I wish to start it growing again. I start it 

 about the month of October, with a gentle heat of sixty degrees, at 

 which heat I allow it to stay for about a month. I then shake it 

 out of the pot, and divest it of a portion of its roots. I then repot it 

 in the same-sized pot; by so doing I find it causes it- to make a 



