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habit but the inflorescence on the outside has pure 

 white ovate bracts instead of four-partite sterile 

 flowers. This plant does well at Newport, R. I., 

 but is difficult to procure. The name appears in 

 most catalogues of nursery stock but the plant sup- 

 plied under this name is almost invariably the Climb- 

 ing Hydrangea. 



Clematis has more variously colored flowers than 

 any other genus of hardy climbers. There are species 

 with white, blue, pink, scarlet, claret-red, and yellow 

 flowers and their flowering season is from the early 

 summer until autumn. They are excellent subjects 

 for trellises, low walls and arbors but it should be re- 

 membered that these plants are fond of lime. The 

 large star-shaped flowers of the Japanese C. patens, 

 and C. florida which also grows in China, and the 

 Chinese C. lanuginosa; the European C. Viticella, 

 their various colored garden forms; and the Jack- 

 mani hybrids which are mixtures of all three, capti- 

 vate the attention wherever seen and all garden lovers 

 desire to possess them. The white flowered C. 

 montana from eastern Asia is an old favorite. A 

 variety of this (C. montana, var. rubens) with rose- 

 colored flowers from two and one fourth to three inches 

 across and dark foliage, which I had the pleasure of 

 introducing to cultivation in 1900, is acclaimed by 



