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VIRGIN'S BOWER. — CLEMATIS. 



Natural order, Multisiliquce. Ranunculacea, 

 Juss. A genus of the Polyandria Poly gym a 

 class. 



" 'Tis a bower of Arcadian sweets." 



" Where odorous plants in evening fair, 



Breathe all around ambrosial air." Green. 



The sweet-scented virgin's bower, Clematis 

 flammula, whose clusters of small white flowers 

 shed such an agreeable fragrance over our 

 morning and evening walks, during the months 

 of July, August, and September, is a native of 

 the south of France, Italy, the Grisons, &c, 

 and was cultivated in this country by Gerard, 

 previous to 1596. Yet it is not become so 

 common as might have been expected from 

 its easy propagation, hardy nature, and above 

 all, from its delightful perfume, which greatly 

 resembles that of the hawthorn, excepting that 

 it is not so powerful, and therefore more agree- 

 able to people in general, being less offensive 

 to the head. This climbing or creeping plant 



vol. ir. s 



