THE FLORISTS MANUAL. 



We spread out the roots and lay them 

 in trenches in the eoldframe during win 

 ter and in severe weather cover with 

 glass, removing it before they get any 

 way forced by the suns of March. We 

 believe they are more satisfactory to our 

 customers planted this way than potted 

 and given any time in the greenhouse. 

 The potted plants look well when sold, 

 but are more liable to suffer from neg 

 lect after planting. In very strong 

 plants there is such a mass of roots that 

 it is impossible to spread them sufficient 

 ly for all to get some earth around them, 

 so we cut out about half the roots, which 

 enables us to get some soil among them. 

 You dare not guarantee the clematis. 

 If you do you will have to make good 

 your losses on some other article. But 

 you can plant them with care and give 

 good advice as to the attention they 

 need. They are nearly always planted 

 against a veranda, whose overhanging 

 roof often keeps the rain away, or they 

 may be on the side of the house or an 

 aspect from which the prevailing rains 

 are infrequent. They should during 

 summer receive copious waterings. When 

 planting out each clematis should receive 

 a barrow-load of good, rich soil and not 

 be put into a small hole and have clay 

 or brickbats to feed on, which is often 

 the result of the grading and sodding 

 that is done around a pretty house. 



In milder countries the gorgeous Jack 

 manii and its kindred varieties may re 

 tain their stems through the winter- 

 with us they do not, but when well 

 established the roots have such vigor 

 that the young shoots spring from the 

 ground in a very few weeks, and by end 

 of June are a gorgeous mass of bloom 

 seven, eight and nine feet high, and five 

 or six feet across. All these flower from 

 the growth of the same year. 



Plants of Jackmanii, Henryii or any 

 of that type make splendid decorative 

 plants grown on a balloon or flat trellis 

 an large pots. For this purpose they 

 should not be cut down, as the frost 

 does our outside ones, but wintered in 

 some cool house and merely thinnned out 

 and tied in spring before starting into 

 heat. 



There are a great number of species 

 and some of them are very distinct. A 

 few of them are natives of North Amer 

 ica and make splendid plants for cover 

 ing fences, railings, etc. 



C. paniculata is very hardy and is 

 covered from July on with its white, 

 finely divided flowers, resembling almost 

 balls of cotton. 



C. coccinea is a very distinct species 

 with yellow and vermilion flowers of 

 an odd shape; fine for verandas. 



C. flammula has white flowers, is very 

 hardy and one of the strongest growers. 



O. ortunei, small, white fragrant; 

 fine hardy climber. 



C. Virginiana, a very strong growing 

 climber with small white fragrant 

 flowers. 



The five species last mentioned do not 

 require any special care, and when once 

 established live for years. It is what 

 is known as the Jackmanii type, one of 

 the first hybrids of which has immortal 

 ized the name of the raiser, Mr. Jack- 



Clematis Paniculata. 



man, of Surrey, England, that need the 

 best of attention in planting, etc., and 

 which are to many people the only 

 clematis. An old species from China 

 with pale lavender flowers five or six 

 inches in diameter must be one of the 

 parents of Jackmanii. Of this beautiful 

 type there are a number of varieties, and 

 among the best are: 



Jackmanii, still one of the very best 

 color; a rich purple. 



Jackmanii superba, violet purple. 



Star of India, reddish plum color. 



Sieboldii, lavender. 



Henryii, the best white; very large. 



Mme. Edouard Andre, a very distinct 

 variety, approaching a bright red. 



Miss Bateman, an attractive variety; 

 white flowers with dark anthers; medium 



flower, dense grower and free bloomer, 

 but not continuous. 



COBAEA. 



The species best known and most 

 useful is C. scandens and plants are 

 annually raised in large quantities to 

 be used as outdoor climbers. It is a 

 perennial, but it is much better for us 

 to treat it as an annual. As a quick 

 growing plant of fine appearance to 

 cover verandas, summer houses and 

 stumps of trees it has scarcely an equal. 

 It flowers profusely^ in August and Sep 

 tember, but the large, bell-shaped flower 

 is not conspicuous as, in color, it is of 

 little contrast to the leaves. Where 

 people want permanent vines, such as 

 honeysuckles, bignonias, etc., and are im- 



