A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



C. montana, perhaps of C. tangutica the new beauty 

 from China with its small, clear yellow flowers; 

 or we recall some of the large-flowered clematises 

 that we know, such as the purple C. Jackmanni, 

 the charming pinkish -lavender C. Jackmanni Mme. 

 Edouard Andre, the two shown garlanding the 

 arch in the illustration facing page 90. But how 

 seldom do we think of the Davidiana type — the 

 bush or low-growing shrubby clematises which 

 may have become fairly numerous and so beauti- 

 ful in the hands of M. Lemoine. One I must 

 describe here, given me some years ago by Mr. 

 W. C. Egan, to whom I owe so many fine things 

 for the garden. This is Clematis Lemoinei cam- 

 panile. The beauty of this flower is well-nigh 

 indescribable. Three years of it in this garden 

 have now brought it to full beauty, and a cluster 

 of it is before me now in a crystal vase with, most 

 appropriately, a few sprays of phlox W. C. Egan. 

 Impossible it is to conceive of a lovelier effect 

 in flower decoration than this. The clematis so 

 aptly, beautifully named is some three feet high, 

 the flowers produced typically from the axils of 

 the leaves except for a long, loose terminal raceme 

 which actually towers above the topmost leaves. 

 These flowers, like the florets of a hyacinth, are 



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