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jointed rods (leaving a few for future blooming), and keep 

 as much of the short, twiggy growth as you can, for that 

 alone the next summer will bear flowers." 



CHAPTER IX 

 CLEMATIS 



THE history of the Clematis as a garden flower up to 1872 

 was well told by the late Thomas Moore, and the fullest 

 cultural instructions, based on long experience, given by 

 the late George Jackman in a book published by John 

 Murray in the year named. We are there told of the 

 increasing popularity of the Clematis as a hardy, free- 

 flowering climber, and of the great improvement effected 

 by breeders in the size, form, and colours of the flowers. 

 The breeders of new varieties appear to have included 

 continental as well as English workers, but it is doubtful 

 if any one of them did anything like as much to make 

 the Clematis beautiful, easy to grow, and popular, as 

 Mr. Jackman did in his nursery at Woking, and his 

 sons are still engaged in the task. The book referred to 

 is probably out of print now ; perhaps the proprietors 

 could be induced to bring out a new edition of it, for 

 beyond the fact that more crosses have been made and 

 a number of species added to those grown forty years 

 ago, there isn't much to be said that has not already been 

 well said by Messrs. Moore and Jackman in their book, 

 The Clematis. 



The first hybrid Clematis recorded was raised in 1835 

 in Henderson's Pine-apple Nursery, St. John's Wood. 



