CLEMATIS VIRGINIANA (VIRGIN'S BOWER.) 



=\^EW of our readers, even among those who belong to our affiliated 



=<^ Horticultural 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 received 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. (Fig. 1002.) 



Fig. 1002.— Porch Covered with Virgin's Bower. 



The flowers are white and small, compared with many foreign varieties, but 

 are so numerous as almost to cover the vine, and grows in panicles as shown in 

 Fig. 1003. These come on the new wood in June and July, and in August the 



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