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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 



Clematis continued. 



C. virglniana (Virginian).* ft. white, fragrant, small, panicled, 

 dicficious. June to August. I. ternate ; leaflets cordate, acute, 

 grossly toothed or lobed. h. 15ft. to 20ft. North America, 1767. 

 Hardy. (W. D. B. 74.) 



C. Vitalba (White Vine).* Old Man's Beard ; Traveller's Joy, Ac. 

 fl. white, with a sweet almond scent ; peduncles forked, shorter 

 than the leaves. July to September. Seed or carpels furnished 

 with a feathery tail. I. pinnate; leaflets ovate-lanceolate, acu- 

 minated, cordate at the base, partly cut. Europe (Britain), 

 Western Asia. Hardy. See Fig. 472. 



C. Viticella.* Vine Bower, fl. blue, purple, or rose-coloured, 

 large, drooping; sepals obovate, spreading; peduncles one- 

 flowered, longer than the leaves. June to September. J. entire 

 or ternately decompound ; lobes or leaflets entire. South Europe 

 and Western Asia, 1569. Hardy. See Fig. 473. (B. M. 565.) 

 There are several varieties of this species, one of which is 

 double. 



In " The Clematis as a Garden Flower," by Thos. Moore, 

 F.L.S., and George Jackman, F.R.H.S., the following key 

 to the various classes is given: 



CLIMBING PLANTS. 



Flowering on the Tear-old Ripened Wood. 

 Flowers medium-sized (winter and spring *> s , montana typ a 

 blossomers) ........................... ) * ' 



Flowers large 

 Spring blossomers .................... 2. patens type. 



Summer blossomers .................. 3. jlorida type. 



Flowering from the Young Growing Summer Wood. 

 Flowers small (late summer blossomers) . 4. graveolens type. 

 Flowers large (summer and autumn 

 blossomers) .......................... 



Flowers successional, dispersed ........ 5. lanuginosa type. 



Flowers successional, massed .......... 6. Viticella type. 



Flowers profusely massed, continuous . . 7. Jackmanni type. 



NON-CLIMBING PLANTS. 

 With sub,hrubby stems ................ { * 



With herbaceous stems .................. 5 9. erecta [recta] type. 



It will be seen from, this key to the classes, that the 

 latter are numerous, and variable in habit and time of 

 flowering. This difference must be borne in mind with 

 each under cultivation, as it affects the manner of pruning 

 considerably. To prune or remove the ripened wood of 

 the three types first named, in winter, would, of course, 

 destroy the flowers of the following year. The next four 

 types make their growth and flower on it annually, con- 

 sequently a little thinning out of the weaker shoots in 

 early spring might prove of advantage by encouraging the 

 stronger ones. Many varieties of these types have their 

 shoots killed in winter by frost, being more tender, as a 

 rule, than the three first-named. The last two types are 

 quite distinct, being, as stated, non-climbing plants. 



Varieties. Of late years, this magnificent genus of plants 

 has been greatly improved by hybridisation. This very 

 successful method of obtaining new kinds is believed 

 (according to the authority already quoted) to have been 

 first practised by Isaac Anderson-Henry, Esq., of Edin- 

 burgh, who was shortly afterwards followed by Mr. George 

 Jackman, of Woking, Surrey. C. Jackmanni was one of 

 the latter gentleman's first seedlings, and it is still one of 

 the best and most useful we have. It flowered about 

 the year 1862. Many other hybridisers, in this country 

 and on the Continent, have since been at work with the 

 different species and the hybrids afterwards obtained, to 

 produce the very large and varied collection we now 

 possess. We select a list, which is being constantly aug- 

 mented, of the most approved varieties at the present time. 

 ALBERT VICTOR, deep lavender, the centre of each petal banded 



with brown, changing to white (May and June) ; ALEXANDRA, 



flowers pale reddish-violet ; AMALIA, white, straw-coloured in 



centre, stamens reddish-purple (May and June) ; COUNTESS OF 

 rge double-flowered variety, of rich purplish colour, 

 the best double known; DEVONIENSIS, flowers the brightest 



variety, of rich purplish colour, 

 NIENSIS, flowers the brighte 

 and most delicate azure, large and well-formed, robust, hard 



an mos ecae azure, arge an well-formed, robust, hardy, 

 and a free blossomer ; DUCHESS OF EDINBURGH, fine double 

 white, very large; DUKE OF EDINBURGH, rich violet-purple, 

 very large; EARL OF BEACONSFIELD, royal purple, a magni- 

 ficent variety; ENCHANTRESS, white, very double, the exterior 

 petals flushed with rose ; FAIR ROSAMOND, bluish-white, with 

 a somewhat indistinct wine-red bar up the centre of each sepal, 

 the stamens very prominent and distinct, exceedingly fragrant ; 

 FAIRY QUEEN, pale flesh, with a red bar in the centre of each 



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petal ; GEM, deep lavender-blue, very fine ; GIPSY QUEEN, dark 

 velvety-purple, very floriferous ; GRAND DUCHESS, blush-white, 

 very lar?e and free ; GUIDING STAR, purple, shaded crimson, a 

 maroon band down each petal ; HELENE, white, straw-coloured 

 centre (May and June) ; HENRYI, large, of fine form, creamy-white, 

 very free; HYBRIDA SPLENDIDA, rich violet, stems green (July to 

 October) ; JACKMANNI, flowers large, deep violet-purple, rugose and 

 veiny in centre, stamens green (July to October) ; JOHN GOULD 

 VEITCH, flowers large and double, light blue (summer flowering) ; 

 LADY BOVILL, flowers large, cupped, greyish-blue, suffused with 

 mauve ; LADY CAROLINE NEVILLE, bluish-white, with a broad bar 

 in the centre of each petal ; LADY LONDESBOROUGH, delicate 

 silvery-grey, white stripe down each petal, stamens stained 

 with pink (May and June); LILACINA FLORIBUNDA, pale lilac, 

 very free ; LORD LONDESBOROUGH, rich mauve, striped maroon, 

 very large ; LOUISA, mauve, shaded with pink (May and June) ; 

 LOUIS VAN HOUTTE, rich blue-purple, very large and distinct ; 

 LUCIE LEMOINE, the largest and best double white ; MADAME 

 GRANGE, purplish-violet, red bar ; MADAME VAN HOUTTE, pure 

 white, fine shape and substance ; MARIE LEFEBVRE, very fragrant ; 

 Miss BATEMAN, pure white, creamy band down each petal ; MRS. 

 JAMES BATEMAN, pale lavender, very handsome (May and June) ; 

 OTHELLO, dark velvety-purple, fine form ; OTTO FROEBEL, white, 

 shaded with azure-blue, large ; PRINCE OF WALES, deep violet- 



Eurple, petals barred with red (July to October); BEGIN x, flowers 

 irge, rich deep mauve in colour ; SENSATION, rich satiny-mauve, 

 large and very fragrant; SIEBOLDH, pale straw, centre puce, 

 shaded with green (July to October); SOPHIE, mauve petals, pale 

 straw in the centre, stamens chocolate (May and June) ; SOPHIE 

 FLORE-PLENO, flowers double, mauve, outer petals pale yellowish- 

 white (May and June) ; STANDISHII, flowers large, violet-blue (May 

 and June) ; STAR OF INDIA, reddish-purple, with purple bands ; 

 STELLA, flowers light violet or deep mauve, with a distinct bar 

 of deep reddish-brown or plum-colour in the centre of each 

 sepal, delicately scented; SYLPH, white, shaded with light 

 pinkish-mauve ; SYMEIANA, pale mauve, flowers large ; THOMAS 

 MOORE, rich soft violet, stamens white ; TUNBRIDGENSIS, dark 

 blue, shaded with purple; VENUS VICTRIX, delicate lavender, 

 an excellent form ; VESTA, fine white, early flowering. 



CLEMATITIS. See Aristolochia Clematitil. 



FIG. 474. FLOWERING BRANCH OF CLEOME PUNGENS. 



CLEOME (name adopted by Linnaeus from Theodo- 

 sins). Spider Flower. Including Peritoma and Polanisia. 

 OBD. Capparidece, A large genus, comprising about 

 seventy species, mostly annual herbs a few are shrubby. 

 Flowers white, yellow, or purple, showy, solitary or race- 

 mose. Leaves simple, or digitately three to seven-foliate. 



