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do not like to have their roots disturbed. 

 We are often asked by our friends to divide 

 onr peony plants with them, bnt this I 

 would never advise any one to do, for in- 

 terference with the plants will often pre- 

 vent their blooming the following season. 

 It takes several years to grow a plant to 

 satisfactory size, and if we explain this to 

 our friends few of them will expect us to 



do not come until late in the season, and' 

 are at their prime long after the other- 

 varieties in general culture have ceased to 

 bloom. Give this clematis a well drained 

 soil of loam, and see that it receives a lib- 

 eral fertilizing each spring. The foliage of 

 this clematis is of a rifh dark green, witli 

 a shining surface, against which the white 

 flowers are displayed, very effectively. If 



CLEMATIS PANICULATA 



interfere with the develo23ment of our 

 plants by taking away part of their roots. 

 A chimp once well established is good for 

 an indefinite term of years, and requires 

 no care each season beyond that of having 

 manure applied to it and the grass and 

 ^ eeds kept down about it. 



A CIIAEMIXG VIXE 



One of the most satisfactory vines we 

 have is Clematis panicidata g rand i flora. 

 This variety does not have the large flow- 

 ers of C. JacJnnani, the purple-blue sort 

 which is' so popular, but it has a multitude 

 of small ones which almost cover the vines, 

 and are really more beautiful than the 

 more showy varieties. These are pure 

 white, and delightfully fragrant, and they 



I could have but one clematis, this is the- 

 variety I would choose. 



THE XA3IES OF PLAXTS 



A great many comiilaints come to me- 

 about the long, hard names which many of 

 our flowers have — ''meaningless names,*^ 

 one correspondent says. She is wrong 

 about this. Take the plant spoken of 

 above is an illustration — Clematis panicu- 

 lafa grandiflora. The term means a va- 

 riety of clematis having many flowers, in 

 panicles, but the florists, using a common, 

 language, describe it as Clematis panicu- 

 Jata grandiflora. The same descriptiort 

 applies to the hardy hydrangea, pan^ 

 grandiflora. If you study up the catalogues 

 a little vou will find that each term used 



