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MY GARDEN. 



specimens round London exist : at Tooting a single plant completely 

 covers the side of a large house, and in spring it is literally covered 

 with thousands of flowers. Sometimes it is grown as a bush or tree, 

 with good effect. 



Occasionally the Litkospermum scandens (fig. 576) is grown, as it 

 fc-^_ ^^ir is admirably adapted for covering trellis-work. 



The Sweet-scented Clematis (Clematis vitalba, 



jffy. <^^~ i 



$Fvfc*4i& fig. 577) should be in 



every garden. It is a 



FIG. 576. Lithospermum scandens. FIG. 577. Sweet-scented Clematis. 



FIG. 578. C. Jackmanni. 



variety of the Scentless, or Traveller's Joy, a wild plant which grows 

 close to my garden. Its white, highly perfumed flowers are always 

 welcome in August, and it is an agreeable addition to the summer- 

 house. 



" The clematis, the favour' d flower 



Which boasts the name of virgin-bower." 



SIR WALTER SCOTT. 



Of late years the hybrid Clematis has contributed largely to 



the decoration of ear- 



f S3 ' 



&M" 







dens. They should be 

 grown so as to appear 

 natural, for when they 

 twine up trees spontane- 

 ously, producing sheets 

 of their intensely blue 



FIG. 579.-C.lam.ginosa. FIG. 580. -Pale Clematis. flowers ill AugtlSt, I1O- 



thing can be more beautiful. The C. Jackmanni (fig. 578) is in my 

 judgment by far the finest of all. The C. lamtginosa (fig. 579) and 



