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JOUENAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ November 14, 1872. 



generally simple, producing from twenty to twenty-four pods, 

 mostly in pairs. The pods are long, slightly curved, full, and 

 rounded, of a bright green colour, and. frequently covered, espe- 

 cially where shaded, with a rough granular excrescence, whence 

 the name of " Mossy Podded." They contain from seven to 



eight medium-sized deep green peas closely packed, and which 

 are inferior in flavour. 



This is a very late Pea. Sown on the 23rd of February this 

 year it bloomed on the 20th of June. Slats appeared on the 

 24th, and the pods were ready to gather on the 3rd of July.— H. 



THE CLEMATIS. 



In continuation of our notice of Messrs. Moore and Jackman's 

 work on the Clematis, we now give the following extract treat- 

 ing of the Clematis as an exhibition plant : — 



" The Clematis promises to become one of the most telling of 

 exhibition plants at two different periods of the year, the species 

 and varieties of the pa- 

 tens and florida types 

 furnishing excellent 

 materials for the spring 

 shows — about April and 

 May; while those of the 

 Viticella and Jackmanni 

 types especially, as well 

 as some of the lanugi- 

 nosa strain, come in at 

 a season which renders 

 them particularly ac- 

 ceptable for shows held 

 during the late summer 

 months. 



"The spring- flower- 

 ing sorts cultivated for 

 the early shows may 

 be grown in 10-inch or 

 12-inch pots, in a rich 

 loamy soil. In pots of 

 this size the plants 

 should sufficiently fur- 

 nish cylindrical trellises 

 of about J2 feet high and 

 1 foot 6 inches across. 

 They flower from the 

 well-ripened wood of 

 the previous year's for- 

 mation, and hence a 

 supply of this wood 

 must be kept up annu- 

 lly by encouraging a 

 free growth after the 

 flowering season is past. 

 The general treatment 

 recommended for con- 

 servatory plants may be 

 followed out with these 

 also, the earlier plants 

 requiring gentle forc- 

 ing. During the sum- 

 mer months, when free 

 growth is desired, it is 

 advantageous to plunge 

 the pots into some por- 

 ous medium, as old 

 tan, ashes, or cocoa- 

 nut refuse, and also to 

 mulch the surface of 

 the soil in the pots with 

 half-rotten dung. For 

 show purposes the 

 flowers should be per- 

 fected under glass, or 

 at least under a sunny 

 south wall. 



" A somewhat differ- 

 ent treatment is re- 

 quired by the summer- 

 flowering sorts. The plants, in fact, require to be kept as nearly 

 as possible as if they were growing in the open garden. The 

 limitation of root-space is probably the greatest source of failure 

 with them, since it seems next to impossible to get them so finely 

 developed in pots or tubs as they are when growing in the open 

 ground. They require very ample root-space, and are, therefore, 

 best grown in tubs, which are more convenient and manageable 

 than very large pots. The plants may be formed by shifting on 



Clematis Jackmanni as an exhibition plant. 



young plants till they acquire specimen size. Or established 

 plants may be taken up out of the border and put into tubs ; but 

 this should not be done in the same season as that in which they 

 are required for exhibition, for the disturbance of the roots would 

 prevent a successful issue. They should be established in the 

 !, tubs the previous season, and duiing that in which they are to 



be shown should be 

 kept in vigour by 

 means of mulching, 

 and by feeding with 

 manure water. 



" Beyond this the 

 cultivation of the Cle- 

 matis for summer ex- 

 hibition purposes offers 

 no difficulties. Good 

 vigorous plants are to 

 be pottea-up in rich 

 light loamy soil, in 

 well-drained tubs of 

 convenient size. They 

 must be pruned down 

 rather closely in the 

 first and in each suc- 

 ceeding year, while to 

 favour the free and- 

 healthy growth of the 

 branches during the 

 summer, a judicious 

 use of stimulants must 

 be resorted to — top- 

 dressing or liquid-ma- 

 nuring, as may best suit 

 each individual ease,, 

 being the means em- 

 ployed. 



" Specimens of the 

 summer-flowering va- 

 rieties grown in tubs 

 of about 2 feet across 

 by 1 foot 6 inches deep 

 should cover a cylin- 

 drical trellis 4 feet in 

 height and 2 feet 

 6 inches across, and at 

 the usual season should 

 throw a mass of flow- 

 ers, of which the ac- 

 companying is a fair 

 illustration. These, 



however, will not bear 

 shutting-up or forcing,, 

 or even at that season 

 to be placed under 

 glass, since it spoils 

 the colours, but they 

 are to be flowered in 

 the full sunlight. The 

 only mode of acceler- 

 ating their flowering 

 season, should they 

 be likely to be rather 

 behind the time at 

 which they are re- 

 quired, is by submit- 

 ting them to sun heat 

 in the open air under shelter of a south wall. 



" Specimens grown in this manrer are not only very suitable 

 objects for spring and summer exhibitions, according to the 

 varieties selected, but they also make admirable objects for 

 placing in prominent positions, such as on terraces or open 

 -spots in flower gardens. The late summer varieties are not, 

 however, suitable plants for shady positions." 



PRIZE PEARS IN JERSEY. 

 The annual Fruit;Show of the Royal Jersey Agricultural and I reputation the island has acquired for the production of hardy 

 Horticultural Society was held in the Vegetable Market on and forced fruits and vegetables. On this occasion the fruit, 

 October 16th, and was in every way worthy of the world-wide | especially in the Pear and Apple classes, was truly magnificent. 



