504 CLEMATIS. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



CLERODKNDRON. 



YELLOW. C. tangutica, the most 

 beautiful of its colour. Flowers of a fine 

 yellow in spring. Stems woody and short, 

 throwing out numerous flowering shoots 

 each season. C. orientalis, light yellow 

 in colour, flowering in summer and 

 autumn ; is best grown trained against a 

 house or wall, when it sometimes attains 

 a large size. C. Wilfordi resembles it ; a 

 plant for the rock-garden, where it forms 

 ow tufts covered with flowers, its shoots 

 taking root wherever they touch the soil. 



WHITE. C. apiifolia, somewhat like 

 Vitalba, flowering in autumn. C. balea- 

 rica, scented blossoms during autumn and 

 winter. C. cirrhosa, a vigorous plant, 

 flowering from October to December. C. 

 ftammula; ;a variety robusta is larger, and 

 flowers a little later. C. lanuginosa Can- 

 dida, large flowers, coming mainly in 

 spring, but again at intervals during sum- 

 mer and autumn. There are in existence 

 a great number of its forms, hybrid and 

 otherwise, with beautiful white flowers, 

 but none are so robust or lasting as the 

 old form which has flourished for many 

 years in our garden. C. montana; its 

 variety grandiflora is larger in flower, but 

 they are not fragrant. C. Viticella alba, 

 a good plant with flowers of exquisite 

 purity and grace ; its form Luxurians is 

 more robust, attaining a large size, and 

 sometimes, as a result of its great vigour, 

 the first flowers are somewhat greenish in 

 colour. The varieties Arabella and Madame 

 Moser are also forms of Viticella alba. 



ROSE. Comtesse de Bouchaud, large 

 and beautiful flowers of a fine rose colour, 

 and very free. Madame Baron Veillard, 

 large flowers appearing rather late, to- 

 wards the end of summer, and autumn. 

 Vagabonde , flowers of four sepals set 

 crosswise, pale rose in the centre, deepen- 

 ing towards the edges ; a plant of great 

 vigour. C. Viticella rosea, a charming 

 plant, flowers smaller, but of a beautiful 

 shaded rose. Neige et cerise, also a form 

 of Viticella, medium-sized flowers, white 

 in the centre, with a border of bright 

 cherry-red. Duchess of Albany, flowers 

 of a good light pink. 



CRIMSON AND RED. Madame Edou- 

 ard Andre, crimson-purple ; Madame 

 Furtado-Heine, rose-shaded flowers ; 

 Madame Julia Correvon, dark crimson- 

 red colour ; Oriflamme, bright red, ap- 

 proaching vermilion, covered wiih minute 

 touches of white ; J ackmanni rubra; Ville 

 de Lyon, crimson-red. Amongst red 

 forms of C. Viticella are Kennesina, sma ] 

 flowers but very abundant and deep 

 crimson in colour ; Leonidas ; Rubra 



; Flore-pleno 



purpurea, and atropttrptirea, of a deeper 

 purple ; C. coccinea, Countess of Onslow, 

 hybrid of coccinea, crimson shading to 

 purple. 



BLUE. Durandi, intense blue ; Perle 

 d' Azure, large light blue flowers ; Victor 

 Ceresole, a form approaching lanuginosa, 

 with large flowers of a good blue ; Cceli- 

 gina, a fine shade of ultramarine in 

 colour ; Bifrons, light blue in the centre 

 shaded to dark indigo at the edges, and 

 silvery-white at the back ; this double 

 tinting on the same plant has at times a 

 very peculiar effect. Of purple forms of 

 C. Viticella there are atragenoides, a very 

 free and vigorous plant, with blue flowers, 

 paler in parts and towards the centre ; 

 ccerulea, with myriads of bell-shaped, 

 azure-blue blossoms ; and Monsieur Tis- 

 serand, robust and good, with light blue 

 flowers streaked with darker veinings. 



VIOLET AND PURPLE FLOWERS. The 

 purple Clematis are a numerous class, but 

 the best are as follows : C. Flammula 

 rubra_jriarginata, flowers small but pro- 

 duced in such quantity as to make the 

 plant one sheet of violet ; Etoile violette, 

 large well-formed flowers upon a vigorous 

 plant, which reaches a great size. Franco- 

 furtensis, dark purple ; Gipsy Queen ; 

 Jackmanni and its variety superba ; Ma- 

 dame Grange, ruddy violet ; Modesta 

 inclining to mauve ; Neptune, clear blue- 

 violet ; Prince of Wales, rich violet- 

 purple ; Rubella, dark and richly shaded; 

 Star of India, clear violet, with bright 

 purple markings ; Rubro-violacea, a 

 peculiar brown tint of violet, passing to 

 ruddy violet-crimson. Amongst forms of 

 C. Viticella are Iris,rosy violet ; Negresse, 

 a dark velvety purple ; Venosa, pale blue, 

 veined with violet purple, passing to 

 darker tones at the edges ; and Venosa 

 violacea, darker in colour ; C. odorata 

 camlea, with scented blue flowers. 



This list does not include a number of 

 varieties still on trial in our gardens, 

 which promise ere long to add to the list 

 plants distinct in colour, particularly in 

 the newly-developed group of hybrids of 

 coccinea and megalantha, of which the 

 Countess of Onslow, Sir Trevor Law- 

 rence, Duchess of Albany, Duchess of 

 York, and Grace Darling form a part. 

 FRANCISQUE MOREL. 



CLEKODENDRON. Tropical or sub- 

 tropical trees or shrubs, only two species 

 of which have any claim to hardiness, 

 C. trichotomum, a Japanese plant, and C. 

 fcetidum, a native of China, an old garden 

 plant usually seen in greenhouses, but 

 hardy enough for open-air culture in all 

 southern and warm parts. In southern 



