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rejected. The Evergreen Clematis would require to be 

 planted in a tub of some magnitude : it grows to the height 

 of eight or ten feet, and becomes very thick and bushy. 

 The flowers are of a greenish colour, and appear in De- 

 cember or January. It retains its leaves all the year. 

 Gerarde gives it the name of Traveller's Joy of Candia ; 

 Johnson, Spanish Traveller's Joy ; and Parkinson, Spanish 

 Wild Climber. 



Purple Clematis grows naturally in the woods of Spain 

 and Italy: there are several varieties, the Single Red- 

 flowered, Blue-flowered, and Purple-flowered, and the 

 Double Purple ; which flower, in June, July, and August : 

 and another with white flowers, which appear in May. 

 Gerarde gives this species the name of Climbing Ladies' 

 Bower, " frpm its aptness," he says, " to make bowers or 

 arbours in gardens." 



The Curled Clematis is a native of Carolina, Florida, 

 and Japan ; the stalks grow near four feet high, and fasten 

 themselves by their claspers or tendrils, to the neighbour- 

 ing plants. The flowers are purple, and blow in July. 



The Oriental Clematis is a native of the Levant ; it has 

 flowers of a greenish yellow colour, which are in blossom 

 from July till October. 



The Upright Virgin's Bower, or Clematis Flammula, (in 

 French, lajlammule; clematite odorante : Italian, Jlammula:) 

 grows naturally in many parts of Europe. The flowers 

 are white, and continue in blossom from June till Septem- 

 ber. This is an acrid, corrosive plant, and inflames the 

 skin, whence it has been named Flammula. 



The Hungarian Clematis has blue flowers, which are in 

 blossom from June to August. This and the last men- 

 tioned species have annual stems. 



All the kinds here enumerated, which are the hand- 

 somest, will live in the open air all the year. They should, 



