22 FAJIJLIJIi GAUIiJiX FLOirEliS. 



It is a free-i^i'owing', free-Howeviiig', cllmbiut;' shrub^ ran- 

 ning twenty to tliirty feetj and well adapted for clothing 

 a trellis, or rough garden hermitage, or f(jr disjalaying 

 a wild luxuriance on a spacious rockery, where, if well 

 placed, it will Ije most effective and delightful. Its 

 flowers are so like those of Aiieinonr xi/lvryifris that it has 

 been catalogued as Cleiiiali-^i a-Hiniioiiijiora , and it is also 

 known as C. odvrala, in allusion to its agreeable odour. 

 To grow it well it should be j'l'Uite'i ™ ^ deep, rich, 

 well-drained soil, and be allowed to run its full lenyth 

 for to cut it in severely will be to prevent its blooming 

 as freely as it otherwise would. The flowers are jiro- 

 duced in prodigal profusion from the well-ripened shoots 

 of the previous year, and pruning back simply rennives 

 the flowering wood, and, in respect of the flowers, occa- 

 sions the loss of a season. The game thing happens in 

 the case of many of the more rampant growing roses; 

 their beauty is seen only when natural growth is allowed, 

 and with them, as with this clematis, clever pruuing 

 consists in occasionally cutting clean out to the base any 

 old rods that can be spared, but otherwise preserving the 

 whole of the gr(iwth in all its original vigour. 



Closely allied to this clematis is the winter clematis 

 [C. rali/ciiid), a Lieautiful climber, running twelve to 

 twenty feet, and producing during the winter Howers of 

 a greenish-white colour dotted with purple spots. This 

 is a native of iMinorca, and is not quite so hardy as 

 tlie mountain clematis, therefore it requires a somewhat 

 sheltered situation, which it will pay for liy its winter 

 flowers. 



Another near relative is tlie evergreen virgin's 

 bower {€'. cirrhosa), which makes less g-rowth than the 



