in the middle of July and going on till late September. We August, 

 have it growing up posts in the Rose bed with the climbing Varieties of 

 Dorothy Perkins, the two making a fine bit of colour together. Clematis 

 With us it is much the strongest of any of the large flowered 

 sorts, and grows magnificently over a six-foot fence exposed to 

 the north-east, with white Aimee Vibert Rose as a neighbour. 



The lanuginosa type we find much more difficult to grow, 

 though our soil, loam on chalk, is what a Clematis is supposed 

 to enjoy above all things. In spite of carrying out all the best 

 advice, mulching in Summer and dosing with manure water, 

 they have an unkind way of suddenly failing when in full 

 flower. Once they get established they do well, lasting many 

 years, and are so lovely that they are worth a lot of trouble. 

 My favourites are Henryi, cream-white ; Lady Caroline Neville 

 and lanuginosa, a lovely grey ; Beauty of Worcester, Princess of 

 Wales, and Sensation, mauve ; William Kennett and Louis Van 

 Houtte, violet. There are now a number of varieties of red or 

 plum-coloured Clematis, most of them small-flowered, which 

 are not to me nearly so attractive as the old-fashioned kinds. 

 C. coccinea has small flowers of a really bright salmon-red, but 

 is quite unlike the Jackmanni type ; the coloured sepals are all 

 closed together till near their tips and form a tube. For the 

 Autumn C. paniculata and flammula should be planted ; they 

 are both very free growing, resembling strongly the Travellers' 

 Joy of our hedges, but bearing larger sprays of white flower 

 with a very sweet scent. 



The sketch shows a fine effect of Clematis Jackmanni^ 

 Yuccas and Pampas, at Chilham Castle, near Canterbury. 

 The Yuccas, the first week in August, were a wonderful 

 sight. Every plant in this border under the wall had its spike 



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