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MY GARDEN. 



specimens round London exist : at Tooting a single plant completely 

 covers the side of a large house, and in spring it is literally covered 

 with thousands of flowers. Sometimes it is grown as a bush or tree, 

 with good effect. 



Occasionally the Lithospermum scandens (fig. 576) is grown, as it 

 is admirably adapted for covering trellis-work. 

 The Sweet-scented Clematis {Clematis vitalba, 

 ?s^^^IJi•^-5ljl;f fig- 577) should be in 



every garden. It is a 



Fig. 576.— Lithospermum scandens. Fig. 577. — Sweet-scented Clematis. Fig. 578.— C. Jackmanni, 



variety of the Scentless^ or Traveller's Joy, a wild plant which grows 

 close to my garden. Its white, highly perfumed flowers are always 

 welcome in August, and it is an agreeable addition to the summer- 

 house. 



"The clematis, the favour'd flower 



Which boasts the name of virgin-bower." 



Sir Walter Scott. 

 Of late years the hybrid Clematis has contributed largely to 



the decoration of gar- 

 dens. They should be 

 grown so as to appear 

 natural, for when they 

 twine up trees spontane- 

 ously, producing sheets 

 of their intensely blue 



Fig- S79-C. lanuginosa. Fig. s8o.-Pale Clematis. Aowers in AugUSt, no- 



thing can be more beautiful. The C. Jackmanni (fig. 578) is in my 

 judgment by far the finest of all. The C. lanuginosa (fig. S79) and 



