FLORA DOMESTIC A. 



The Oriental Clematis is a native of the Levant ; it has 

 flowers of a greenish yellow colour, which are in blossom 

 from July till October. 



The Upright Virgin's Bower, or Clematis Flammula, (in 

 French, laflammule; clematite odorante : Italian,JZammula :) 

 grows naturally in many parts of Europe. The flowers are 

 white, and continue in blossom from June till September. 

 This is an acrid, corrosive plant, and inflames the skin, 

 whence it has been named Flammula. 



66 If one leaf,' 1 says Miller, " be cropped in a hot day in 

 the summer season, and bruised, and presently put to the 

 nostrils, it will cause a smell and pain like a flame." 



The Hungarian Clematis has blue flowers, which are in 

 blossom from June to August. This and the last men- 

 tioned species have annual stems, 



All the kinds here enumerated, which are the handsomest, 

 will live in the open air all the year. They should, in ge- 

 neral, be watered about three times in a week, but in very 

 hot and dry weather every evening. 



There are some few species of the Clematis which require 

 artificial heat, but they are by far the least handsome. The 

 two last mentioned kinds may be increased by parting the 

 roots, which should be done either in October or February. 

 The roots may be cut through their crowns with a sharp 

 knife, taking care to preserve some good buds to every 

 offset. 



The Clematis is as great a rambler as the Honeysuckle 



itself: 



" o'errun 



By vines, and boundless clematis, (between 

 Whose wilderness of leaves, white roses peep'd) 

 And honeysuckle, which, with trailing boughs. 

 Dropp'd o'er a sward, grateful as ever sprung 

 By sprinkling fountains." 



BARRY CORNWALL. 



