CLIMBING PLANTS. 



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habit^ and tlie size and beauty of its blossoms render 

 it an attractive inhabitant of the flower garden. 



C. fldmmula, sweet-scented virgin's bower, is of very rapid 

 growth. Established plants will grow from twenty 

 to forty feet in one season, producing at the axils of 

 the young shoots, large panicles of small white flowers 

 of exquisite fragrance ; the leaves are compound pin- 

 nate; in bloom from July to November, but in Au- 

 gust, September and October, the flowers are in great 

 profusion, perfuming the whole garden. 'This is one 

 of the best climbing hardy plants^ and ought to have 

 ^a situation in every garden. 



C. montanay mountain virgin-bower, flowers in large clusters, 

 very pure white, a strong and rapid grower. 



C. Virgimdna is of rapid growth, and well adapted for ar- 

 bors ; flowers small white in axillary panicles, dioe- 

 cious, leaves ternate, segments cordate, acute, coarse- 

 ly toothed and lobed, in bloom from June to August. 

 A native, and a little fragrant. 



C. cnsj)a, or Bell Clematis, is a native plant of free growth; 

 flowers of a pink color, in clusters, bell-shaped, the 

 points of the petals folding backwards — a little fra- 

 grant. There is also a variety having purple flowers. 



C. flbrida plenb is a fine free flowering plant ; though gene- 

 rally considered a shrub, is more herbaceous than 

 shrubby; the flowers are large double white; iii 

 growth will not exceed ten feet in one season. 



Gli/cine frutescenSj a beautiful native climbing shrub, known 

 in our gardens under that name, but is properly TTTs- 

 teria frutescens. It has large pendulous branches of 

 blue leguminose (pea-like) flowers, blooming from 

 . May to August ; pinnated leaves with nine ovate 

 downy leaflets ; grows freely. 



— chinensis is given to Wisteria, and is the finest 



climbing shrub of the phaseolius tribe. The flowers 

 are light blue, in long nodding many-flowered race- 

 mose spikes, blooming from May to August, pro- 

 fusely; leaves pinnated, vnth eleven ovate lanceolate 

 silky leaflets, and is of a very rapid growth. It is 

 perfectly hardy, withstanding the severity of our win- 

 ters without protection. 



Bignbnia criicigera is an evergreen which is very desirable in 



