Jackmanii Purple 



Jackmanii Alba White 



Blue Gem Sky Blue 



Gloire de St. Julien White, Gold Center 



Mrs. Hope Satiny Mauve 



Comtesse de Bouchand Rose 



These varieties are all of the Lanuginosa and Jackmanii 

 groups. There are many, many more I could name, but I doubt 

 if my list could be excelled. Their blooms are superb, their vines 

 graceful, lacey and when grown with our rambler and climbing 

 roses, they produce their great, wondrous flowers all through the 

 Summer and Autumn, after the roses have finished blooming. 

 The rich soil for the roses will gratify and please the large- 

 flowered Clematis. They really revel in it. Heavy soil should 

 be lightened about the clematis plants with leaf mould and sand. 



Perhaps you have noticed I have not mentioned Clematis 

 Montana, Montana Grandiflora or Paniculata? They are of an 

 entirely different family and should not be grown with our climb- 

 ing roses because, for example, Montana Grandiflora would take 

 complete possession of everything, smothering and over-running 

 all its neighbors. No, keep Montana and Montana Grandiflora 

 for your high walls, banks and knolls, also Paniculata, and keep 

 the great-flowered Clematis for companioning your climbing roses. 

 The family of great-flowered Clematis deserve the highest praise 

 for you may have them in every hue. There is Ramona, a tender, 

 sweet blue, and Fairy Queen, such a delicate pink, with quaint 

 deep rose bars; Jeanne d'Arc, a misty grey, to grow with the 

 climbing hybrid tea, pink Belle Seibrecht, or Marie Van Houtte, 

 white and mauve, and Mrs. Hope, mauve, to grow with pink 

 Dorothy Perkins, or rose pink Comtesse de Bouchand and vel- 

 vety purple Jackmanii, side by side, for entwining the unlovely, 

 twisted base of our Wistaria. You see the great-flowered Cle- 

 matis do not strangle or suffocate their neighbors as some vines 

 do. No, they are vines of excellent habits and of an entirely dif- 

 ferent growth, and all flowering on the new wood which is cut 



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