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is a proper ornament for rustic porches or 

 arbours, and it may also be planted so as to 

 climb the trunks of laburnums and other trees 

 in the shrubbery ; thus giving the grace of a 

 second flowering. We observed the sweet- 

 scented clematis planted in the flower par- 

 terres of the royal gardens in Paris, where it 

 was tied to a stake and kept cut as a shrub, 

 by which means it was very ornamental, being 

 covered with white blossoms, and at the same 

 time throwing the fragrance of May over the 

 whole gardens. Great quantities of these 

 plants, when in blossom, are also brought to 

 the flower market of that city, in pots, and 

 meet with a ready sale. 



The name of Clematis is derived from the 

 Greek jcX^a, because these plants climb trees, 

 by means of their pliant twigs, like the vine. 

 The sweet-scented species is distinguished by 

 the trivial name of Flammula, on account of 

 the burning sensation the leaves give to the 

 tongue. 



The purple virgin's bower. Clematis viticella, 

 is a native of the woods of Spain and Italy, 

 and was also one of the plants which Gerard 

 cultivated in his garden at Holborn, in the 

 times of good Queen Bess. He calls it the 

 Ladies' Bower, " from its aptness to make 

 bowers or arbours in gardens." But this 



