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viticella race. C. intermedia rosea and C. diversifolia c&rulea, 

 both belonging to the shrubby section, were raised by MM. 

 Bonamy Freres ; and M. Lemoine raised C. erecta, a double- 

 flowered form of the herbaceous group. Messrs Cripps & Sons 

 of Tunbridge Wells have raised many very large-flowered and 

 valuable varieties from C. lanuginosa, among which we may 

 note C. Lady Caroline Neville (1866), C. Mary Lefebvre, and C. 

 Madame Van Houtte (1867) ; and numerous fine varieties of a 

 more recent date, including C. tunbridgensis, C. Star of India, 

 and others. Mr Noble of Sunnydale, Bagshot, has originated 

 some fine forms by crossing C. Standishii and C. lanuginosa, 

 the parents of C. Gem, which in size, form, and colour of flower 

 closely resembles Mr Anderson-Henry's C. regina (C. lanu- 

 ginosa x C. patens). Mr Noble's hybrids were raised from C. 

 Standishii, C .Fortunei, and C. Sophia, with C. lanuginosa; the 

 two latter being the seed-bearing parents, and the result is a 

 sturdy and hardy race, bearing large richly-coloured flowers. 



Some of Mr Anderson-Henry's more recent seedlings are of 

 marvellous size and substance, especially C. Lawsoniana, C. 

 Henryi, and C. Symesiana, which, the raiser says himself, 

 " belong to the lanuginosa type, Clematis lanuginosa being the 

 seed-bearer, and C. Fortunei the male parent. Some of the 

 seedlings, also in Messrs Lawson's hands, flower early ; but 

 others, to which group those announced and which are men- 

 tioned above belong, do not bloom before August, and go on 

 till November or later. In fact, I have them under glass flow- 

 ering now (January 18). 



" As to size, they average from 4 or 5 to 8 or 9 inches in 

 diameter, but this last size is the extreme : a bloom of C. Law- 

 soniana, a large-flowered variety, has indeed attained 9^ 

 inches. 



" As to the colour of the flowers, there is something to me 

 wholly inexplicable in all this lanuginosa-Fortunei brood ; for 

 while the seed-bearer, C. lanuginosa, has pale-lilac flowers, and 

 C. Fortunei, the male parent, has pure white semi-double blos- 

 soms, those of some of their progeny deepen into blue or azure, 

 banded sometimes with darker shades, in which a tint of rose 

 comes up. How they should have any shade of blue at all, 

 and still more how they should have darker-shaded bands, is 

 utterly unaccountable to me from all the experience I have 

 had, unless I should be right in an assumption which has been 

 forced upon me, namely, that C. Fortunei is a white-flowered 

 seedling variety of a blue-flowered species perhaps of C. John 

 Gould Veitch these being, so far as I can remember, much 

 alike in their general habit, foliage, and inflorescence, even to 



