84 CLIMBING PLANTS. [April. 



them single, and it is said that there is likewise a 

 double red. 



Clematis coeriilea, C. cn>rulea grandiflora, and C. azurca 

 grandiflora. This beautiful and entirely new 

 climber is already distinguished by three distinct 

 names, and has been several times figured, each 

 time with more or less flattery. I must confess the 

 first representation I saw of it truly enchanted me ; 

 the brilliancy of its blue surpassing every flower I 

 had ever beheld ; and named C. azurca grandiflora. 

 The flowers are frequently four or five inches in 

 diameter, of a fine, bluish violet colour, blooming 

 freely and perfectly hardy, the most magnificent of 

 the family. 



Clematis Sieb6ldii,OT bicolor. This is another of Dr. Van 

 Siebold's Japan additions, and is nearly related to 

 C. florida. The leaves and branches, however, 

 are rather more downy, and the petals suffused 

 with violet spots ; the anthers are also of a violet 

 colour, which has given it the name of bicolor; it 

 is of graceful habit, and the size and beauty of its 

 blossoms render it an attractive inhabitant of the 

 flower garden. 



C. faimmttla, sweet-scented virgin's bower, is of very rapid 

 growth. Established plants will grow from twenty 

 to forty feet in one season, producing at the axils 

 of the young shoots, large panicles of small white 

 flowers of exquisite fragrance ; the leaves are com- 

 pound pinnate ; in bloom from July to November, 

 but in August, September and October, the flowers 

 are in great profusion, perfuming the whole gar- 

 den. This is one of the best climbing hardy 

 plants, and ought to have a situation in every 

 garden. 



C. Virginiana is of rapid growth, and well adapted for 

 arbours ; flowers small white in axillary panicles, 

 dioecious, leaves ternate, segments cordate, acute, 

 coarsely toothed and lobed, in bloom from June to 

 August. A native, and a little fragrant. 



C. crispa, or Bell Clematis, is a native plant of free growth 

 flowers of a pink colour, in clusters, bell-shaped, 

 the points of the petals folding backwards a little 



