SEPTEMBER 14, 1895.] 
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CHRONICLE. 
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CLEMATIS. 
Amonc climbers, none are more useful or d € 
tiful than the species of — tis. * week we give 
—— of — the most The опе, 8. лы 
loba a New — species vith evergreen 
— (вве — 54, p. 301). It is admirably adapted for 
required. But 
white flowered Ж do a end with its utility 
Fic. 55.—CLEMATIS MONTANA, 
as a climber, beautiful though it be when so 
employed, as will be seen by reférence to our ed 
trations. One of the best uses to which w ve 
seen the plant put was as а decorative A. tok 
e ta in 6 or 8-i роб 
table, or for indoor and conservatory decoration, — 
profusion of white flowers carried well ont from the 
bright green foliage having a charming effect, Then 
the sed f in baskets for 
hanging i in юзу conservatories, For this purpose | " 
requires to b 
Pt a m the stems being restricted, — as 2 ч 
HARDY CREEPER, ON THE RESIDENCE ОЕ С, 
C. montana is hardy, and has deciduous foliage. 
Nothing can be more beautiful as a trailer to cover 
the fronts of houses * fig. 55). A — village we 
passed throug spring had alm every hou 
completely draped — this plant, = — — 
е better when allowed to ramble at its 
own discretion than when cut b "P or formally 
trained, The illustration we give is of a plant 
covering the porch of the residence of G. Ratcliff 
Steel, Esq., at Bexley. 
RATCLIFF STEEL, ESQ. 
HOME CORRESPONDENCE. 
CK RASPBERRY. — In your issue of 
J dr 20 ўн * to the Black "eoe or Black 
Caps, as we call them here, The im proved varieties 
аге gro dreds of acres all over the northern 
United States. The fruit is dried in vast гахе 
when the price runs low, and in tate it 
eta with a great de s of thi 
country, suchas miningor mountainous districts, where 
ordinary fruits be grown, E sekeeper 
here арр т canning, and uses fro 
I — you partica of a newly-introduced 
variety. The cut was made from a photograph, the 
accuracy of which I can vouch for. 
The cut shows 
the original bush, w 
2 and of a dull purple colour, Mr. T. Т mpson, 
* ye ted gathering the 
fruit this Jul &nd gathered wA 
CAT Sundays хоер). until August 12, 
perio Mr, ompson, who Хы 
sides at — village of 59 NY. 
fruit as fast as picked to a gentlema 
i 
sold Ан 
receiving as commission 
this one? The fruit Һа ted the 
grower nine and ten cents per quart (44 d 54), 
and something like 40,000 « ave been sold thia 
season.  'The original plant i ** " MIR j ayait 
eight quarts of fruit, certainly p for 
plant, however large. John Charlton, a. N. Y. 
U.S.A, 
был WARRINGTON GOOSEBERRY.— Not 
ccmmon in private gardens near Aberdeen; x at 
leat t two of the leading nurserymen there have it in 
ock. Delt, 
HE BEST SUMMER DRINK.—It is not suffi- 
ciently known, that of all e varieties of beverages, 
monade, Nettle-beer, 
Ko., there “th at made from the 
poorest and worst " — windfall Apples, and — сап 
е made out one half-penny per 
ment with yeast in the пап 
- the day after bottling, рч does п 
its beat for many days, r this аа small 
Use ча Apples which are 
must be dy "Thos, Fidtoler, N Cheshire. 
we TARIA CHINENSIS, —I de write —— 
authority of any other species or variety. 
— seen and handled some Pry хутар of the 
above, I desire to thanx W. J. B.“ for hie v 
8 ebruary ear. In fact, it 
seems rather to like frost than otherwise, have 
never seen the Wistaria more heavily laden with 
lighter and more ecant than poh Tagen e 
mereri as verdant ав al: and even more thickly 
furnishe ith au bl i s b 
abnormally poera on most of 22 cun ond Е 
all th _ n not a few gar 
second more valued than the firat à t 
lasts lon "A ra s orter, 
slender, and frequently intermixed with leaves 
and graceful branchlets, choice admirable ma 
appear to 
njure or weaken the stamina of Wistarias, or sensibly 
diminish the profusion of the first bloo it did 
the latter, the secon ИП be 
welcomed. For if it is that 
the firat blooms cannot be fully seen for the crash. 
For telling points on and 
uty of the racemes have ys much enha E by 
a timely thinning of the does flower-buds, In 
отб — normal type, W. sinensis, I Nave tried 
, the double, and the va 3 Leda 
eris what g 
and he Wista by 
— that the herum could hardly be ped roved b 
ion of silver or golden pere Баш 
or уейв. Possibly the plant thinks so also, 
* E this or other less simple reaso e calla 
halt to 
growth when arrayed in new livery, 
