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summer jasmine (Jasminum officinale), the golden winter flowering jasmine (J. nudi- 

 florum), and fragrant honeysuckles, such as Loniceras flexuosa, bracteata and the 

 common woodbine (L. periclcmeum), while the golden netted (L, aurea reticulata) is 

 eff'ective for the pillars of summer houses and the lower part of arches, growing the 

 most freely when cut down annually early in the spring. The free-growing clematises 

 enumerated on page 85 are admirably adapted for clothing arches and forming 

 bowers, as also is the so-called tea tree, or matrimony tree (Lycium europa3um). In 

 addition to those we have a grand class of plants, the dii-ect outcome of the florist's 

 skill, and which may be appropriately alluded to hero, namely, florist's clematises, as 

 also some rampant-growing roses. 



Florist's Clematises. 

 Practically all the magnificent varieties of clematises, with flowers ranging from 

 4 to 9 inches in diameter, mostly single, but several double, or of rosette form, are the 

 result of cross fertilisation, described and illustrated on pages 23 to 29. The results 

 have been marvellous, amounting in fact to a floral revolution, equal in effect to that 

 shown on the pages cited with begonias and calceolarias and (seeing that clematises 

 are hardy plants and can be grown outdoors by all who have suitable positions for their 

 cultivation) perhaps of greater value. They are adapted for covering arches, arbours, 

 porches, pillars, and summer houses, making them beautiful by wreaths of handsome 

 flowers. 



Though the work of breaking into the clematises appears to have commenced 

 on the Continent, it was not until Mr. Anderson Henry, of Edinburgh, and Messrs. 

 Jackman & Sons, Woking, concentrated attention on it, about 40 years ago, that startling 

 results were achieved. The rich Clematis Jackmanni took the world by storm in 1863, 

 and soon afterwards came a host of beautiful forms, including the white Mrs. Bateman. 

 Almost every year since has given birth to new beauties under the fostering care of 

 such firms as Messrs. Smith & Sons, Worcester, who exhibit plants so magnificently in 

 pots at our great exhibitions. The flowers represented in the coloured plate (see index) 

 were taken from Messrs. Smith's plants at one of the shows of the Eoyal Horticultural 

 Society, and are fairly typical of the splendid family to which they belong. Besides 

 those figured, the following varieties are, among others, worthy of general culti- 

 vation. They are divided into sections based on the parentage and certain faii4y 

 defined characteristics. 



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