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It has the reputation of being more tender, requiring 
greater heat to bring it to perfection. With me, it stood 
near the other species two winters, with the same protec- 
tion. The flowers are produced only on the old wood ; it 
is necessary, therefore, to lay down, and cover the growth 
of the season, to insure bloom the next year. The flow- 
ers are four or five inches in diameter, of a rich blue, in 
July; aclimber, like the last, but not of so robust growth. 
C. Sieboldii is certainly the most showy of the genus, but 
since the first edition of my “Book of Flowers” was 
published, I have found by experience, that it is not so 
hardy as C. azuwrea grandiflora, which has proved quite 
hardy when the vines are laid down, producing a profusion 
of its rich blue flowers. Wherever a lattice is mentioned 
by the Poets, it is expected the Clematis will run over it: 
“Tn the calmness of a cloudless eve, 
How gently dies a long, long summer’s day, 
O’er yon broad woods, as loth to take its leave, 
It sheds at parting its most lovely ray, 
And golden lights o’er all the landscape play, 
And languid zephyrs waft their rich perfume 
Where the wide lattice gives them open way, 
And breathe a freshness round the twilight room, 
From Jasmine, Clematis, and yellow-blossomed broom.” 
All the climbing species are shrubby, and if laid down and 
covered with earth late in autumn, will flower much bet- 
ter than the plants exposed in winter. 
C. cirrhésa is a beautiful white-flowered, sweet-scented 
species. Besides the species and varieties enumerated, 
there are many others, esteemed ornamental. 
ns. cara 
CLEOME. 
This is an elegant genus of plants, and very curious in 
their structure. The petals range themselves on the upper 
side, and the stamens and pistil are protruded a consider- 
