THE 
PURPLE CLEMATIS. 
Clematis rubro-violacea, 
YBRIDS of the more showy 
species of clematis are now go 
numerous as to constitute a dis- 
tinct and large class of garden 
flowers. The parents of these 
many splendid varieties, of 
which Clematis patens, C. lanu- 
yinosa, C. viticella, and C. For- 
funer may be named as having 
afforded the strongest characters, 
are for the most part traceable 
in them by the eye of an expert; 
but it happens that in a majority 
of instances the pedigrees have 
been preserved, and therefore a 
collection of clematis may be 
studied with advantage by the scientific botanist, as they 
may be by the lover of flowers, for the sake of their beauty 
only. The variety figured is one of the most interesting in 
the scientific and historical view of the subject. In the 
year 1835 Mr. Henderson, a London nurseryman and hor- 
ticulturist, raised a new hybrid, which was named in his 
honour Clematis Henderson, Tt was believed to be the 
result of a cross between C. v/ticedla and C. iutegrifolia. 
