Fig. 2763. Clematis Virginiana (Virgin's Bower). 



ISOME GOOD CLIMBERS FOR THE PORCH— I. 



FEW of our readers, even among those 

 who belong to our affiliated horticul- 

 tural societies, are aware that we have in 

 Ontario a native variety of Clematis which 

 is sufficiently hardy to be grown even in our 

 northern sections. Some years ago we re- 

 ceived some plants of it from Mr. J.. P. 

 Cockburn, of Gravenhurst, and these have 

 thrived wonderfully well, covering a portion 

 of the front porch as seen in our engraving. 

 The flowers are white and small, com- 

 pared with many foreign varieties, but are 

 so numerous as almost to cover the vine, and 

 grows in panicles as shown in Fig. 2763. 

 These come on the new wood in June and 

 July, and in August the flowers are suc- 

 ceeded by numerous carpels, with long tails, 

 as shown in Fig. 2764 and which are also 

 ornamental. The leaves of the Virgin's 

 Bower are alternate, and each leaflet is acute 

 heart-shaped, and coarsely toothed, and 



often cut in deep lobes. The vine grows 

 stronger each year, and will reach up fifteen 

 or twenty feet. 



Fig. 2764.' [Bunch of Carpels. 



