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Iborticulturiet 



Published at Jof\onto and Gf^msby, Ont. 

 OFFICE ADDRESS— GRIMSBY, ONT. 



VOL. X.] 



JULY, 1887. 



[No. 7. 



Jflotoers. 



THE CLEMATIS. 



fHIS beautiful climber has already 

 received considerable attention in 

 this journal. In volume VI. our 

 readers have seen a plate of that beau- 

 tiful native of Texas, the Clematis 

 Coccinea, shewn also in our engraving 

 as No. I. Its flowers are orange scar- 

 let, and though not lai-ge, the peculiar 

 shape and profusion of bloom make it 

 a verj' decided acquisition. 



In volume VII. a fine colored plate 

 of Clematis Jackmani was given, so 

 called from Mr. Jackman, an English 

 nurseryman who claims it as his hy- 

 brid, a cross between the Spanish Viti- 

 cella and the Chinese lanuginosa. It 

 is this Clematis that we again brinfj 

 brifore our readers, shewing Avhat a 

 chai-ming effect may be produced by 



training it about on upright trellis on 

 the lawn. 



The Clematis belongs to the Crow- 

 foot family — a family which includes 

 also the Columbine, the Larkspur, the 

 Pseony, &c. — and about one hundred 

 varieties have been found growing wild 

 in various parts of the world, while 

 hybridization and cultivation has more 

 than doubled this number. It first 

 attracted general attention in the year 

 1859, when Clematis Viticella was 

 introduced into England from Spain, 

 and soon became a general favorite ; 

 and out of compliment to the then 

 reigning monarch who delighted in the 

 title of " Virgin Queen," it was named 

 the Virgin's Bower. About the same 

 time a native of England, the C. 

 Vitalba, was brought into cultivation. 

 It had sevei-al common names, as, for 

 instance, " The Traveller's Joy," from 

 its being frequently found by travellers, 



