CLEMATIS JACKMANNI. 



Fig. 1510.— Clkmatis J ackuassi, from photo tent by Miss Htnman. 



l^ P^HE Jackman's Clematis shown 

 in the accompanying engraving 

 is about eight years old. It was 

 spring planted in the spot it 

 now occupies, and was only six inches 

 high ; just one shoot and some healthy 

 looking roots. I took great care of it, 

 you may be sure, encouraging it to grow 

 by tying the shoots to supports as soon 

 as they needed it, and every winter cov- 

 enng up the earth surrounding the 

 roots with leaves or straw, and laying 

 boards on top to keep them there. In 

 the spring I took this away and carefully 

 laid on top of the soil, or mixed in with 

 it some well rotted manure and watered 

 all summer the same as I did my flower 



beds. It has amply repaid me for the 

 care, and this year the leaves were 

 scarcely visible for flowers, some years 

 the flowers remain for six weeks and 

 there are a few old ones right into 

 October. At first I took it off the trellis 

 work and laid it down along the veranda 

 covering it up same as roots, this I have 

 learnt by experience is quite unneces- 

 sary. All that needs doing is to cut 

 away with a sharp knife the part that is 

 dead in the spring, but do not be in too 

 great a hurry to do this, wait till you see 

 what sunshine and warmth will do, the 

 runners look dead when they are not. 

 Helen Henman, 

 Sec. Thornhury Hort. So<^y. 



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