Varieties of looks charming growing just as it does in the Tyrol, wreathing 

 Clematis the stumps of old trees with its delicate soft blue flowers, 

 never more than a few feet high. In a mild climate, 

 like that of Cornwall, Clematis indivisa is hardy, and in 

 April is quite lovely with its branches of starry white flowers 

 and plum-coloured stamens ; here, unfortunately, it needs 

 glass. Later in the year come C. Montana^ C. florida with 

 white flowers three or four inches across and purple stamens, 

 and its double forms, such as the Duchess of Edinburgh and 

 C. patens, with its many beautiful garden hybrids, Miss 

 Bateman, and Sir Garnet Wolseley being among the best. All 

 these three types of Clematis bear flowers on the old wood, and 

 should only be pruned if their growth becomes too extravagant. 

 To August and the Autumn months belong the varieties of 

 Lanuginosa, viticella, coerulea, coccinca, Jackmanni, flammula, 

 and paniculata. All these flower on Summer shoots, and are the 

 better for the thinning out of weak wood in the Spring. Strong 

 growing kinds like Jackmanni may be cut right back in the 

 Autumn, and made to form new shoots from the crown, but this 

 method should not be tried with other varieties unless the size 

 of the plant is to be reduced. A Clematis called Perle d'azure, 

 the colour of Neapolitan Violets, is a charming one for growing 

 on stakes about five feet high among Rose bushes. This 

 sketch was done in Mr Robinson's garden at Gravetye, 

 where two or three plants form a beautiful cluster over the 

 scattered blooms of Caroline Testout. A white form of 

 C. viticella was out at the same time bearing a multitude of 

 small white flowers, and hanging in a delicious tangle from the 

 lower branches of two small trees. Jackmanni bears its magni- 

 ficent violet-purple flowers for many weeks, beginning as a rule 

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