CLEMATIS. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. CLETHRA. 



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Viticella rosea, a charming plant, 

 flowers smaller, but of a beautiful 

 shaded rose. Neige et cerise, also 

 a form of Viticella, medium-sized 

 flowers, white in the centre, with a 

 border of bright cherry-red. Duchess 

 of Albany, flowers of a good light pink. 



CRIMSON AND RED. Mme. Edouard 

 Andre, crimson-purple ; Mme. Furtado- 

 Heine, rose-shaded flowers ; Mme. Julia 

 Correvon, dark crimson - red colour ; 

 Oriflamme, bright red, approaching 

 vermilion, covered with minute touches 

 of white ; Jackmanni rubra ; Ville de 

 Lyon, crimson-red. Amongst red forms 

 of C. Viticella are Kermesina, small 

 flowers but very abundant and deep 

 crimson in colour ; Leonidas ; Rubra 

 grandiflora, reddish - crimson ; Flore- 

 pleno purpurea, and atropurpurea, of a 

 deeper purple ; C. coccinea, Countess of 

 Onslow, hybrid of coccinea, crimson 

 shading to purple. 



BLUE. Durandi, intense blue ; 

 Perle d'Azure, large light blue flowers ; 

 Victor Ceresole, a form approaching 

 lanuginosa, with large flowers of a 

 good blue ; Caeligina, a fine shade of 

 ultramarine in colour ; Bifrons, light 

 blue in the centre shaded to dark 

 indigo at the edges, and silvery-white 

 at the back ; this double tinting on 

 the same plant has at times a very 

 peculiar effect. Of purple forms of 

 C. Viticella there are atragenoides, a 

 very free and vigorous plant, with 

 blue flowers, paler in parts and towards 

 the centre ; ccevulea, with myriads of 

 bell-shaped, azure-blue blossoms ; and 

 Monsieur Tisserand, robust and good, 

 with light blue flowers streaked with 

 darker veinings. 



VIOLET AND PURPLE. The purple 

 Clematis are a numerous class, but 

 the best are as follows: C. Flam- 

 mula rubra marginata, flowers small 

 but produced in such quantity as to 

 make the plant one sheet of violet ; 

 Etoile violette, large well - formed 

 flowers upon a vigorous plant, which 

 reaches a great size. Franco-furtensis, 

 dark purple ; Gipsy Queen ; Jack- 

 manni and its variety superba ; 

 Mme. Grange, ruddy violet ; Mod- 

 esta, inclining to mauve ; Neptune, 

 clear blue-violet ; Prince of Wales, 

 rich violet-purple ; Rubella, dark and 

 richly shaded ; Star of India, clear 

 violet, with bright purple markings ; 

 Rubra-violacea, a peculiar brown tint 

 of violet, passing to ruddy violet- 

 crimson. Amongst forms of C. Viti- 

 cella are Iris, rosy violet ; Negresse, a 

 dark velvety purple ; Venosa, pale 



blue, veined with violet purple, passing 

 to darker tones at the edges ; and 

 Venosa violacea, darker in colour ; 

 C. odorata ccerulea, with scented blue 

 flowers. 



This list does not include a number 

 of varieties still on trial in our gardens, 

 which promise ere long to add to the 

 list plants distinct in colour, particu- 

 larly in the newly-developed group of 

 hybrids of coccinea and megalantha, of 

 which the Countess of Onslow, Sir 

 Trevor Lawrence, Duchess of Albany, 

 Duchess of York, and Grace Darling 

 form a part. FRAN^ISQUE MOREL. 



CLERODENDRON. Tropical or 

 sub-tropical trees or shrubs, only two 

 species of which have any claim to 

 hardiness, C. trichotomum, a Japanese 

 plant, and C. fcetidum, a native of 

 China, an old garden plant usually 

 seen in greenhouses, but hardy enough 

 for open-air culture in all southern and 

 warm parts. In southern gardens, 

 especially near the sea, it grows 5 feet 

 high, and is handsome for the several 

 weeks it is in bloom. The other species 

 is less common, and is a free-growing 

 shrub, 6 feet high or more, bearing 

 large loose clusters of flowers, the 

 corollas white, the calyces a deep 

 brownish-red, blooming in September. 



CLETHRA (Sweet Pepper Bush). 



Shrubs and small trees of the Heath 

 order, the hardy species natives of 

 North America. The Alder - leaved 

 Clethra ( C. alnifolia) in the wet copses 

 of Virginia reaches a height of 10 feet 

 or more. With us it grows from 3 

 to 5 feet, makes a dense bush, bear- 

 ing in summer white, sweet-scented 

 flowers in feathery spikes. C. acu- 

 minata has more pointed leaves, and 

 it also has spikes of white scented 

 flowers ; it is quite a small tree in 

 the woods of the Alleghanies. Both 

 are valuable shrubs for moist peaty 

 places. 



C. ARBOREA is the handsome Lily-of- 

 the- Valley tree. It bears panicles of white, 

 bell-shaped flowers in the summer at 

 which time it is quite a feature at Tresco. 

 It thrives out of doors in the south, and 

 may be worth trying in the warmer parts 

 of S. Ireland, but usually in our country 

 is a shrub for the greenhouse. Madeira. 



C. CANESCENS. An erect deciduous 

 bush, 4 feet or so high, native of China and 

 Japan, whence it was introduced about 

 1870. The leaves are greyish, the white 

 fragrant flowers borne in terminal inflores- 

 cences in August. It is somewhat tender 

 when young, but stands better after the 

 first few years. 



