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somewhat greenish in colour. The varieties 

 Arabella and Madame Moser are also forms of 

 Viticella alba. 



Rose-coloured Flowers. — Comtesse de 

 Bouchaud, large and beautiful flowers of a fine 

 rose colour, and very free. Madame Baron Veil- 

 lard, large flowers appearing rather late, to- 

 wards the end of summer, and autumn. Va- 

 gabonde, flowers of four sepals set crosswise, 

 pale rose in the centre, deepening towards the 

 edges ; a plant of great vigour. C. Viticella rosea, 

 a charming plant, flowers smaller, but of a 

 beautiful shaded rose, very free, and lasting ; a 

 secondary form, reticulata, has its flowers of a 

 lighter rose-colour, netted with darker veins. 

 Neige et cerise, also a form of Viticella, me- 

 dium-sized flowers, white in the centre, with 

 a border of bright cherry-red. Duchess of Al- 

 bany, a hybrid of C. coccinea, with bell-shaped 

 flowers of a good light pink ; good for cutting. 



Crimson and Red Flowers. — Madame 

 Edouard Andre, large well-shaped flowers of 

 a beautiful crimson-purple colour ; Madame 

 Furtado-Heine, pretty rose-shaded flowers ; 

 Madame Julia Correvon, flowers of fair size 

 and of dark crimson red colour ; Oriflamme, 

 medium-sized blooms, bright red approaching 

 vermilion, covered with minute touches of 

 white ; "Jackmanni rubra, a plant of good form, 

 with reddish-violet flowers ; Ville de Lyon, 

 large flowers, perfect r in outline, and brilliant 

 crimson-red in colour — the best red Clematis. 

 Amongst red forms of C. Viticella are Kerme- 

 sina, small flowers but very abundant and deep 

 crimson in colour; Leonidas, a hardy plant 

 but less vigorous than some ; flowers of a vel- 

 vety purplish red, rich in effect ; Rubra grandi- 

 flora, very vigorous and free-flowering, with 

 flowers reddish-crimson ; Flore-p/eno purpurea, 

 with very double flowers produced in quantity, 

 on a vigorous plant, and atropurpurea bearing 

 flowers rather larger, and of a deeper purple. 

 C. coccinea, a perennial species with annual 

 stems, the vigorous hybrid form coccineo-Pit- 

 cheri, obtained by crossing these two species, 

 bears vanilla-scented flowers, deeper in form, 

 and reddish-purple or a variable crimson in 

 colour ; Countess of Onslow, another hybrid 

 of coccinea, with similarly shaped flowers, is a 

 first-rate new plant for gardens; colour crimson 

 shading to purple. 



Blue Flowers. — Durandi, very beauti- 

 ful flowers of an intense bright blue ; Perle 

 d'Azure, very large light blue flowers, coming 

 in rich profusion upon a plant of great vigour ; 

 Victor Ceresole, a form approaching lanugi- 

 nosa, with very large flowers of a good blue ; 

 Caeligina, medium-sized flowers of four stiff 

 sepals set cross-wise, and a fine shade of ultra- 

 marine in colour; Bifrons bears flowers similar 

 in size and good in form, light blue in the 

 centre shaded to dark indigo at the edges, and 

 silvery-white at the back ; this double-tinting 

 on the same plant has at times a very peculiar 

 effect. Of purple forms of C. Viticella there 

 are atragenoides, a very free and vigorous plant, 

 with dainty blue flowers, paler in parts and 

 towards the centre ; carulea, with myriads of 

 bell-shapedazure-blueblossoms; and Monsieur 

 Tisserand, robust and good, with light blue 

 flowers streaked with darker veinings. 



Violet and Purple Flowers. — The pur- 

 ple Clematis are a very numerous class, but 

 the best are as follows : — C. Flammula rubra 

 marginata, flowers small but produced in such 

 quantity as to make the plant one sheet of vio- 

 let ; blooms during summer. Etoile violette, 

 large well-formed flowers upon a vigorous 

 plant, which reaches a great size. Francofur- 

 tensis,a medium-sized dark purple flower pro- 

 duced in spring, and again towards autumn ; 

 Gipsy Queen, large flowers richly shaded and 

 of velvet texture ; the familiar Jackmanni and 

 its variety superba, even" more free than the 

 type, and finely shaded ; Madame Grange 

 bears a splendid flower, ruddy violet in colour; 

 Modesta, with flowers, also very large, inclin- 

 ing to mauve ; Neptune, with blooms equally 

 fine and well-shaped, of clear blue-violet ; 

 Prince of Wales has rich violet-purple flowers, 

 distinguished by a ruddy stripe in the centre 

 of each sepal, and Rubella, very dark and rich- 

 ly shaded blossoms ; Star of India, another 

 high-class flower, clear violet, with bright 

 purple markings ; Rubro-violacea a peculiar 

 brown tint of violet, passing to ruddy violet- 

 crimson, with darker veins in the centre, a 

 combination rich in effect but very difficult 

 to describe. Amongst forms of C. Viticella are 

 Iris, with medium-sized veined flowers of rosy 

 violet ; Negresse, a very dark velvety purple ; 

 Venosa, large flowers of pale blue, veined with 



