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cannot always be smelt from the actual flowers, but is 

 carried by the air blowing over the flowering mass ; it 

 is a thing that is often a puzzle to owners of gardens 

 some time in the second week of June. 



Another of these Clematises, which, like the montana 

 of gardens, is very near the wild species and is good for 

 all the same purposes, is C. Flammula, blooming in 

 September. Very slightly trained it takes the form of 

 flowery clouds. The illustrations show it used in 

 various ways, on a cottage, on an oak-paled fence and 

 on a wall combined with the feathery foliage of Spircea 

 Lindleyana. I do not think there is any incident in 

 my garden that has been more favourably noticed than 

 the happy growth of these two plants together. The 

 wall faces north a little west, and every year it is a 

 delight to see not only the beauty of associated form, 

 but the loveliness of the colouring; for the Clematis 

 bloom has the warm white of foam and the Spiraea has 

 leaves of the rather pale green of Lady Fern, besides 

 a graceful fern-like form and a sUght twist or turn 

 also of a fem-Uke character. But this Clematis has 

 many other uses, for bowers, arches and pergolas, as 

 well as for many varied aspects of wild gardening. 



A shrub for wall use that is much neglected, though 

 of the highest beauty, is Ahutilon vitifolium. In our 

 northern and midland counties it may not be hardy, 

 but it does well an5^where south of London. The 

 flowers, each two and a half inches across, are borne in 

 large, loose clusters, their tender lavender colour 

 harmonising perfectly with the greyish, downy foliage. 



There is no loveUer or purer blue than that of the 



