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February 24, 1912. 



THE 



GARDENERS* MAGAZINE. 



153 



GARDEN CLEMATISES, 



The various kinds of garden clematises 

 are amongst the most showy of hardy 

 climbers, and th*^ only point that can be 

 nrged against their general cultivation is 

 that they sometimes die suddenly without 

 any apparent reason when in full growth, 

 andj to all appearances, in first-rate condi- 

 tion. In some gardens this has occurred 

 repeatedly, and it is difficult to assign a 

 reason. It may be that high breeding and 



observed that plants which are planted 

 against the shady side of a trellis or wall, 

 but have their upper parts exposed to full 

 sun, thrive well; thus it woidd appear de- 

 sirable to shade the roots and lower parts 

 of the stems, but let the upper parts have 

 as much sunlight as po.^sible. Suitable 

 positions for <'lematises may be found in 

 most gardens, for they may be grown 

 against walls, on treUises, pergolas, fences, 

 arbours, on old bushes, or over 

 posts. Wherever 



they 



usually cariied out in one of two ways, 

 either by grafting upon pieces of root of 

 the common C. vitalba in spring, or by 

 means of cuttings. They are grown in 

 pots until ready to place in permanent 

 positions, wliich is usually within twelve 

 montlis of the time of propagation. 



In addition to their being grown out of 

 doors, a large number of young plants are 

 flowered in pots for greenhouse decoration 

 in spring, while now and then one finds 



grown 



rough 



it is large pot plants, trained on wire balloon- 



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CLEMATIS DUCHESS OF EDIXBURGH. 

 A beautiful garden hybrid with large white, sweetly scented double flowers 



the 



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intensive propagation have weakened 

 I' ants thereby making them peculiarly 

 J isceptible to disease, or, what is quite 



\Vh +' * "^^^ ^'^'^^^^ sunstroke, 

 natever is the cause, species and botani- 



; ' varieties, planted under exactly similar 

 •ndit.ons grow freely, and it is rarely 

 y\ '^^e dies m the same manner, 

 be nU."'"^* satisfactory results appear to 

 in wl"'^ T P^«"ti"g these clemati.ses 



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iioteln , T^.J'^''*^'^ «f the stems are 

 exposed to bnght sun, for it has be^n 



necessary to provide fairly good loamy soil ; 

 the addition of chalk, if the soil does not 

 naturally contain nuu^i liine^ is attended 

 by good results. 



"^The annual pruning of many clematises 

 is a necessary business, for iho lust 

 suits are only obtained whvn thi'ir 

 plenty of strong, vigorous young growths. 

 As the pruning of the st^veral groups re- 

 quires to be done somewliat differently, 

 attention is directed to the work undei 



re- 

 are 



shaped trellises, wlii<']i blossom very freely, 

 [n tlic nortlieni i)arts of the country, it 

 not infrequently hap])ens that the I etter 

 varieties are used as cool irreenlionM' dim- 



oers, and as such they give excellent 



results. 



The gaiden varieties of <^Iematis aro 

 diviihnl into the following groups: I'atcns, 

 ilorida , lanuginosa, Jack man i. vitif-ella, 



and cocclnca . 



C. i>aten8, the tvpe of one of the earlier- 



each ^M-oup as it is descril>ed. The propa- flowering grouiJS, is a native "f China ;Mid 

 gatiou of tlie various garden clematises is Japan, from whence, according to Loudon, 



