THE 

 SWEET CLEMATIS. 



Clematis flammula. 



HE "Traveller's Joy," or 

 "Virgin's Bower/' is the repre- 

 sentative of the genus Clematis 

 in our glorious English hedge- 

 rows, which, it may be proper 

 to observe, are without parallel 

 in all the world for distinctive- 

 ness and beauty, although it is 

 common to hear and perhaps 

 fair to admit they afford signs 

 sometimes of careless farming. 

 But no matter, the traveller's 

 joy (Clematis vitalbd) is a 

 glorious " weed," more espe- 

 cially in the counties of Kent 

 and Buckinghamshire. It is a 

 lover of chalk and limestone, 

 and where these rocks prevail 

 we may look for it, and be happy 

 if we find it wreathing fantastic 

 garlands about thorn trees and blackberry bushes; and 

 having made a wild foam along the roadsides with its white 

 flowers, changing the scene by making any amount of soft, 

 featherv, silky down for the field-mice to line their little 



