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THE GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE. 
[Arrt 9, 1887. 
THE CLEMATIS. 
For conservatory and other еттер purposes 
Clem are 
large as in the lanuginosa ees they are produced 
in ater abundance, and will come into flower 
earlier. They may be had i in flower by the pes 
of March, or even earlier, and where a sufficie 
number of plants is grown a su i 
ген. may be kept up throughou 
summmer. 'То obtain aera results the main 
патли are, to make a suitable selection of varieties, 
th at regular intervals so as to keep üp a suc- 
cession of bloom. 
H 
CULTURE. 
Propagating.—The stock of Clematis may be in- 
creased either from cuttings, lavering or grafting 
ead 
кеп of: young i e of either C. flammula or C. 
NA talba ; be if vv н — obtainab'e, roots may be 
fibre as possible and about the size of wn gore: to be 
used. si 529 may be obtained fr e young 
spring gro ; the most tender соіа ge peel 
unite if crei treated, but care must be 
that they do not get withered during the eran 
therefore RARE should be ready, so that they 
can be 
akî pots, and light s 
i 
soon callus over, when they should have a little 
ventilation, and as soon as they begin to start into 
growth they should be removed to a lighter and 
cooler position, and it will not be long before they 
will be ready for potting eh the rud that they are 
to remain in for the se Cuttings of half- 
ee wood strike freely if if treated i ina similar way 
tot cea the cuttings may be m single 
eyes, cutting them off close below and above the 
point, a small stick should be put to each to 
Eas un fcn tat e pots 
Potting. compost should consist of good mel- 
low loam, enriched with a little well-rotted кийыше, 
a little 
old 1 lime rubbish i is a good addition to the. soil; ; the 
plants should be potted moderately fi y 
an intermediate temperature until they 
and after they are well 
have made esh start, 
established they will do better out-of-doors. 
placed out-of-doors they should have a sheltered 
position, but should be well exposed to the sun. The 
pots may be sunk in the ground, covering them just 
above the rims ; this will save a good deal of labour 
entan; be found difficult to disentagle 
them without Pains the young shoots. 
VARIETIES. 
As Ihave before stated, the best sorts for forcing 
&re those of the patens type, but it is not новела; 
to confine the selection to that section, as 
rou 
eman, pure White formed flowers ; 
Ма Quilter, white, with greenish bars, changing to 
ite—one of the best for early forcing ; Albert 
i ood early 
: Maiden’s pore white, suffused with pink, 
the disc; Vesta, silvery- 
Garnet Wolseley, 
way is to cut them out soo 
. frosts 
pale lavender—very fine; Alba magna, pure white, 
flowers large and of great substance—extra fine; 
John Gould Veitch, lavender—very pretty rosette- 
like flowérs; Duchess of Edinburgh, double white— 
well formed fl i e 
very pretty; Blue Gem, blue, fine large т. OR 
of the best; Louis Van mie o чайне and 
Besides the above numerous other varieties might 
be added, but many are very similar in colour. It 
is perhaps best to make a selection from plants in 
flower. . I should add that most of the varieties vary 
a little according to the conditions under which they 
are grown. 4. 
ORANGE TREES IN POTS. 
Тнк flowering time is over, and that 
green fruits has come. From this time forward let 
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away with the trees will be all the bett 
Generally it is caused by scale on the een 
should be scraped off with a label, and the redii 
where it had been clinging to should also be hand- 
i d The 
trees are grown 
been added crushed bones and a "aged ER 
with a fourth part of decayed stable manure. 
fruits swell rapidly under this با‎ and so A 
of juice are those that we have had them burst the 
skins before they were fully ripe. J. Douglas 
ROSES, 
THE WINTER AND THE ROSES. 
Tue feat 
ki гамы — + anxious 
for ра their operations. 
Gorali, a ay spring favours a full fruit basket, 
h to the lateness, and these are 
ures of this somewhat peculiar season 
thought, as well 
is past eldom has e been later—nor 
ny precocious fruit s more sum 
destroyed tha dmi the last I X 
iar feature of this pinching season, во 
ar, has been that “March” weather, with 
or two trifling exceptions, was experienced from 
the beginning of February. The latter, instead of 
partaking of ite usual ass character of“ Feb- 
ruary fill dyke,” was one € months on 
record, and it was as harsh iiy cold as dry. 
The frosts and the winds pierced rad in not 
& few cases our screens of boughs that were con- 
sidered protection amply sufficient for Tea, Noisette, 
or other tender Roses. In not a few instances these 
have proved too bitingly cold for Lamarqu aré- 
chal Niel, Triomphe de amu Devoniensis, climb- 
8; erally the 
ways the cold has in hitting different Roses. For 
i i amarque, most of the long 
partially exposed shoots are blackened from top 
almost to bottom ; but they are hardest ne towards 
the top where they are least mature: though a good 
many single shoots if left — break their buds, 
few or none of them would d So the best 
mitten a these enit va 
of 14? and 15? per tit have disappeared. 
bim zA the eerte snow. that” ‘till — 
shady places- 
acute 
this winter will not leave us just yet. The 
are living signs at hand almost as infallible ; these 
be found among the Snowdrops, Crocuses, 
Hellebones, Daffodils, Primroses, 
other early. spring bulbs and flowers. 
Violets, ап 
precoc 
weather before advancing in size, or clothing them- 
selves in brilliancy; while the Laurustinus also kee 
its welcome spread of pink and wbite back till Easter, 
or later. It is as yet too early to attempt an answer 
to the question of what will the harvest be? Ros 
CULTIVATION OF VIOLETS IN 
FRAMES 
Tue best situation is one sheltered from the north 
and east, and with a good slope to the south, so that 
the plants can enjoy the full rays of the sun during 
of a thick reed m 
Marie Louise and Nus "d Tn 
Louise have nearly finished flowering, € now they 
ze they have 
but it is such a splendid thing, I hope to have more 
xt year, and I picked a large bunch yesterday. 1 
as the flowers 
s 
generally being the pickers 
the lights themselves without calling the garamo 
their assistance, and they can get round the frames 
and pick without treading on the plants or injuri ng 
them in low a Violet 
other sorts besides the two I have mentioned, both 
double and single, that m do equally well under 
evon. The 
single ones, bo 
of-doors that we do not trouble to put биес 
er respects they should be treated 1 
beds made 
ni ‹ 
to the fall force of it. I have tried a bed with а 
ort aspect, and I must say it was not а success. 
ї induced to write these notes b ga 
ly in your issue of 
mair г would forward me his addr 
1 to send him half-a-dozen old 
е, a LA. 
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