THE CLEMATIS, PEONY, AND ANEMONE FAMILY. 5 1 1 



C. velutina purpurea. A second batch of seed obtained by 

 crossing C. lanuginosa with some of the darkest-coloured of 

 the above hybrids produced the following remarkable variable 

 kinds : C. Mrs J. Bateman, C. Beauty of Surrey, C. Lady 

 Bovill, all greyish blues, the last peculiarly cup-shaped, together 

 with C. Sir R. Napier, a rich purple, and C. Thomas Moore, in 

 which the purple sepals were enriched in tone by the long 

 white stamens. A Mr Townshend, propagator to Messrs Jack- 

 man until 1862, went to live at Hornsey, and he sowed 

 previously-hybridised seed soon after Christmas 1862, some of 

 which bloomed in 1863, and some the year following. The 

 following were exhibited in July 1864 at Regent's Park: C. 

 lanuginosa violacea, dark purple; C. lanuginosa atropurpurea, 

 dark violet ; C. lanuginosa Hollandii, violet, with a reddish bar. 

 Next year the following were exhibited : C. Miss Brad- 

 don, lilac-purple, pale bar ; C. Aurora Floyd, violet, pale- 

 whitish bar ; C. Lady Audley's Secret, lavender ; C. Souvenir de 

 Cardinal Wiseman, reddish, pale stripe; and C. Rev. Canon 

 Oakley, pale lavender-purple. All Mr Townshend's varieties 

 seem to have gone out of cultivation. MM. Simon-Louis, of 

 Metz, claim to have been the first in the field in improving the 

 Japanese Clematis; but Mr Henderson, then of the Pine- 

 Apple Nursery, Mr Anderson-Henry, Edinburgh, and Messrs 

 Jackman, had raised hybrids prior to 1861, the date at which 

 they claim to have obtained their hybrid C. splendidula. These 

 zealous raisers originated many fine seminal varieties, as well as 

 hybrids. C. splendidula was the result of a cross between C. 

 lanuginosa and C. viticella grandiflora, and was sent out in 1863. 

 C. fulgent, a seedling from the same parents, appeared in 1865, 

 and C. perfecta in 1867 the first a narrow-sepalled red flower, 

 the last a white variety. 



One of the earliest of Continental hybridists who raised new 

 large-flowered Clematis was M. Briolay-Goiffon of Orleans, who 

 in 1860 obtained C. aureliana, a well-formed porcelain-blue 

 variety, by crossing C. lanuginosa and C. patens. This was 

 sent out in 1865. Another Continental raiser, M. Rinz of 

 Frankfort, originated C. Francofurtensis ; M. Lemoine of 

 Nancy, C. lanuginosa Candida, C. lanuginosa nivca, C. Otto 

 Frcebel, and, of a more recent date, C. Lucie Lemoine, a double- 

 flowered form of the C. Fortunei and C. J. Gould Veitch type. 

 M. Carre of Troyes sent out, among others, C. Gloire de St 

 Julien and C. Impe'ratrice Euge'nie ; and M. Dauvesse of Or- 

 leans sent out C. Jeanne d'Arc, and C. Renaultii ccerulea gran- 

 diflora. M. Modeste Querin originated C. Modesta and C. pur- 

 purea hybrida, both belonging to the C. Jackmannii and C. 



