490 CLEMATIS. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



CLETHRA. 



very vigorous in habit, growing 8 or loft, 

 high. The flower is pitcher shaped and 

 very thick and leathery with sepals of a 

 dull reddish purple colour appearing in 

 summer (Eastern United States). 



C. virginiana (American Virgiris 

 Bower). The common Virgin's Bower 

 of the United States and Canada. The 



Clematis Davidiana. 



flowers are borne in flat panicles, the 

 sepals thin, and dull white, and although 

 hardy enough, is not in Britain so strong 

 and woody a grower as our native Travel- 

 ler's Joy. 



C. Vitalba (Travellers Joy}. There is 

 no climber native to Britain that gives so 

 near an approach to tropical luxuriance of 

 vegetation as this. Even in winter when 

 destitute of foliage its naked stems are 

 ornamental. The numerous dull white 

 flowers are each three-quarters of an inch 

 or so across, with a faint odour resembling 

 that of Almonds. It is, perhaps, most 

 beautiful when covered with its white 

 fruits, the seeds having long feathery tails. 



C. Viticella(/Vr//te Virgin's Bower}. 

 A graceful climber, from 8 to 12 feet high ; 

 its flowers in summer \\ inches to 2 inches 

 in diameter, the sepals blue, purple, or rosy 

 purple, and the fruits have only short tails, 

 which are devoid of the plumose covering 

 so often seen in this genus. There are 

 now numerous varieties of the species 

 superior to it in size of flower, and offering 

 also a variety of shades, some very pretty. 

 -W. J. B. 



Hybrid Clematis. Among the best 



of the many hybrids raised both abroad 

 or in England are Alba magna, Ascotensis, 

 Beauty of Worcester, Belle of Woking, 

 Blue Gem, Countess of Lovelace, Countess 

 of Onslow, Duchess of Albany, Duchess of 

 Edinburgh, Duchess of York, Fair Rosa- 

 mond, Fairy Queen, Gem, Gipsy Queen, 

 Henryi, Jackmani, Jackmani superba, 

 Jackmani alba, John Gould Veitch, Lady 

 Bovill, Lady Caroline Neville, Lucie 

 Lemoine, Mme. Grange, Mine. Edouard 

 Andre, Mme. Van Houtte, Miss Bateman, 

 Miss Crawshay, Mrs. Geo. Jackman, Mrs. 

 Hope, Otto Froebel, Princess of Wales, 

 Purpurea elegans, Rubella, Sir Garnet 

 Wolseley, Star of India, Stella, The Queen, 

 William Kennett. It has been usual in 

 treating of these and other Clematis to 

 throw them into groups, a misleading and 

 useless plan from a garden point of view ; 

 the best way is to regard the species each 

 1 separately, as they differ so much in vig- 

 j our and in their use : the hybrids also are 

 better to look at as a class apart, fitted 

 more for flower-garden use than some of the 

 species. The hybrid kinds are all grafted, 

 ! and this is no doubt the reason why they 

 | die off like flies, and why these fine plants, 

 of which hundreds have been raised, are so 

 rarely seen well grown in gardens. The 

 stock used is C. Viticella, very different in 

 its nature from the fine species from China 

 and Japan, and though a vigorous growth 

 is obtained at first an early death too often 

 follows. 



CLERODENDRON. 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 

 gardens, especially near the sea, it grows 



5 ft. high and 

 is handsome 

 for the several 

 weeks it is in 

 bloom. The 

 other speciesis 

 less common, 

 and is a free- 

 growingshrub, 



6 ft. high or 

 more, bearing 

 large loose 

 clusters of 

 flowers, the 

 corollas white, 

 the calyces a 

 deepbrownish-red,bloomingin September. 



CLETHRA (Sweet Pepper Bush\- 

 Shrubs and small trees of the Heath Order, 



Clethra alnifolia. 



