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cially during the late Winter months, to flower in April and May. When 

 planted out in Summer the vines make very rapid headway, but the 

 flower display is meagre. For the Southern States and California it 

 may turn out to be a very desirable vine. With us it seems to thrive 

 best in a rather cool house. 



CISSUS DISCOLOR— No other vine approaches this species in so far 

 as the beauty of its foUage is concerned. The leaves are reddish on the 

 lower surface; on the upper surface the color is bright velvety green 

 mottled with silver; stem red. It is usually grown in a warm house, 

 where its growth is very rapid. Cuttings of the ripened wood will root 

 at almost any period of the year. C. antarctica is a well-known win- 

 dow plant, for which purpose it is admirably suited. It is not particular 

 as to treatment. 



CLEMATIS PANICULATA is a hardy white flowering vine, blooming 

 during August and September. It has jumped quickly into popular 

 favor, being one of the best hardy vines in cultivation. Seeds ripen in No- 

 vember. Raising from seed is the best and easiest method of propagation. 

 If sown when ripe the seed will germinate early in Spring and make fair- 

 sized plants by the following Fall; but if kept till Spring, and sown 

 then, they will not germinate till the Fall; even then they have to be 

 carried over in boxes in frames, and are not much in advance of the seed- 

 lings which germinate the following Spring. From thitj it will be seen 

 that a year's growth is gained by Fall sowing. Like most other Clema- 

 tises it does best in deep, heavy loam well enriched with manure. 



Grafting Large=FIowered Varieties— Clematis of the Jackmanni and 

 Lanuginosa types, that is, those having the large blue, purple, lavender 

 or white flowers, some of them, the singles, being about 8 inches across 

 and some double, are all worth attention, as they give an elegant dis- 

 play of flowers from June all through the Summer; that is, if properly 

 attended to in the way of soil, mulching and watering. They all dislike 

 limited root space and show it in poor-sized flowers and few of them. 

 The varieties may be propagated from the beginning of January till the 

 beginning of April. Lift a few roots of such species as C. ligustrifolia, C. 

 paniculata or C. viticella for tying on pieces of any of the sorts desired to 

 be increased. Whip grafting will answer best. Tie the stock and cion 

 together with raffia and place in a box of chopped moss, standing the 

 box in a propagating frame with a temperature of from 65 to 70 

 degrees. Afterward they are gradually given air, potted on, and hard- 

 ened off as they require it. Encourage them to make all the growth 

 possible before cool weather. They should be started early in the season 

 in a cool house not too much heated. With one or two flowers on they 

 are ready selhng plants, and all that are sold will be advertisements for 

 next season's supply. Another method of propagation is to take cut- 

 tings of the young wood about the middle of June, and root indoors. 

 This is the method mostly employed in this country; but grafted stock 

 make the strongest plants in a given space of time, owing to the 

 stronger root action. 



The beautiful C. coccinea is a variety of our native C. Vorna. It is 



