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Neville, delicate bluish white with mauve bars; La France, deep violet 

 purple; Lord Neville, deep plum colour, crimped; Marie Van Houtte, 

 white, suffused with mauve; Imperatrice Eugenie, pure white; Mrs. Bush, 

 pale lavender; Princess of Wales, bluish mauve; Queen Alexandra, pale 

 lavender to white; William Kennett, deep lavender, &c. 



3. PATENS GROUP. The typical C. patens is a native of Japan, with 

 three to five leaflets, and flowers from May to July, the blooms being 

 5-6 in. across and with six to eight delicate mauve sepals. Amongst the 

 best garden forms are Albert Victor, deep lavender, pale bar; Duke of 

 Edinburgh, violet purple; President, purple claret; Edouard Defosse, deep 

 mauve; Fair Rosamund, blush white barred with red; Lady Londes- 

 borough, bluish lilac with pale purple bar; Miss Bateman, white; Marcel 

 Moser, French white with pink bar; Mrs. George Jackman, white with 

 creamy bar; Sir Garnet Wolseley, pale blue barred with plum red; The 

 Queen, violet. 



4. FLORIDA GROUP. C. florida is also a Japanese plant and has 

 creamy white flowers with six to eight sepals, borne from April to 

 September on the wood of the previous season. Garden forms are Belle 

 of Woking, silver grey, double; Countess of Lovelace, bright bluish lilac; 

 Duchess of Edinburgh, pure white; Fortunei, white, double; John Gould 

 Veitch, pale blue or lavender; Lucie Lemoine, white, double; Venus 

 Victory, pale lavender, double. 



5. VITICELLA GROUP. C. Viticella is a native of southern Europe and 

 western Asia, and has drooping blue, purple, or rosy flowers about 2 in. 

 across, borne on the current year's shoots from July to October. The 

 plants require to be pruned severely in the same way as the Jackmanni 

 section. Garden forms are Lody Bovill, greyish blue, cup shaped; 

 Madame Grange, crimson violet, shaded red in the centre; Mrs. James 

 Bateman, pale lavender; rubra grandiflora, bright claret red; Thomas 

 Moore, bright magenta; Kermesina, bright red; Ascotensis, azure blue; 

 Ville de Lyon, bright carmine red. 



Other Clematises grown are C. coccinea, an American species with 

 tubular or top-shaped scarlet or crimson flowers reflexed at the tips. It 

 has been crossed with other varieties, and some of the best forms at 

 present are Countess of Onslow, violet purple, banded with red; Duchess 

 of Albany, bright pink and lilac; Duchess of York, bluish pink. 



All the above grow freely in the open air, and are extensively used 

 for covering arches, trellises, poles, pergolas, &c. There are several other 

 hardy Clematises, natural species, to be met with chiefly in botanical 

 collections, and of no great commercial value or beauty. Amongst them 

 are alpina (also known as Atragene), with ten to twelve blue or white 

 segments, in May and June; coerulea, violet, June and July; flammula, 

 creamy white; heradecefolia, purplish blue Hyacinth-like flowers, which 

 in the variety Davidiana are a bright lavender blue, and in the variety 

 Hookeri lilac; montana, a well-known climber with very long stems, and 

 pure-white cross-shaped flowers in April and May; the variety rubens has 



