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Clen92vtis. 



""^ This season I have the pleasure of offering a Neiv Race of Clematis, pro- 

 duced by crossing the graceful coral-scarlet (Coccinea), and the bell-shaped 

 Crispa (Blue Bells). 



.«r^)|i.The plants grow almost as vigorously as Hop Vines ; the leaves are 

 extremely gracile and handsome, and the profusion of flowers — from June till 

 frost — exquisite in form and color, most of them being rather broadly bell- 

 shaped, with an exquisitely beautiful frosty or snowfiake appearance, with a 

 blending of colors and shadings which cannot be found elsewhere in the whole 

 Clematis family. 



Clematis. (Sample blooms of the new race.) 



