258 Landscape Gardening 



Virgin's-bower (Clematic mrginiana).A beautiful native 

 climbing shrub, with large clusters of white flowers in July 

 followed in September by the beautiful tasselled fruit. Not 

 much planted in cultivated grounds, but is worthy of cul- 

 tivation in even the most pretentious places, and would be 



FIG. 148. Japanese Clematis (Clematis paniculate?) . 



much more largely used were it not so common along the 

 roadsides and fences. 



Jackman's Clematis (C. Jackmanii), Fig. 149. A 

 beautiful climbing vine, but, like all of the species of the 

 clematis, the canes are very weak and easily injured or 

 broken. The flowers are intense violet-purple, large, and 

 much out of proportion to the weak vine. When planted 

 in a sheltered place with wire netting to protect it from 

 being broken, it often grows well. 



