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autumnal months. It is never to be seen half so 

 beautiful as when crawling over some old rockwork 

 or decayed stumps of trees ; it is excellent for 

 gathering in wreaths for use along with other flowers 

 in autumn ; and if its profuse masses of white 

 bloom do not attract, its fragrance is sure to do so. 

 An open glade in a wood, or open spaces on banks 

 near a wood or shrubbery, would be charming for 

 it ; while in the garden or pleasure-ground it may 

 be used as a creeper over old stumps, trellising, or 

 the like. C. campaniflora, with flowers like a cam- 

 panula, and of a pale purplish hue, and the beau- 

 tiful white Clematis montana grandiflora, a native 

 of Nepaul, are almost equally beautiful, and many 

 others of the family are worthy of naturalization. 



The fine new hybrids and varieties (in the way of 

 C. lanuginosa) will, on good warm sandy soil, spread 

 over the ground without any support or training, 

 and in the most luxuriant way. In making mixed 

 borders, rockwork, fringes of plantation, or anything 

 of the kind, we must not be confined by any rules 

 except those of the judgment, and must draw from 

 all sorts of stores ; therefore these new varieties of 

 Clematis should not be overlooked, and if one were 

 making a bold rockwork, a grand use might be 

 made of them for dressing precipitous points with 



