Creepers ant) Dines* 



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is an excellent garden-form belonging to this type. Flow- 

 ers large, violet-purple, with four almost orbicular, acute 

 sepals. Leaves ternate with long petioles. A continuous 

 summer bloomer, very free-flowering. There is also a white 

 variety. 



Large-flowered Clematis, Clematis coerulea. This is 

 the finest of all the forms, with flowers six inches or more 

 in diameter, consisting of more than six sepals of a blue or 



FIG. 116. LARGE-FLOWERED CLEMATIS (CLEMATIS CCERULEA PATENS). 



purplish color, pure white in the beautiful variety known 

 as patens. Leaves pinnate with three simple cordate leaf- 

 lets. This is a slender climber, flowering in spring, with 

 many varieties. C. florida is a more tender species valuable 

 as a greenhouse plant. 



Clematis of the Jackmanni and coerulea types may be 

 used with advantage as bedding plants, the branches being 

 tied down to cover the ground. They are among the best 



