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not so easily injured by improper treatment. But, when it is considered that both 
of them are of similar habits, and that C. cwrulea is only more tender on account 
of its flowering rather earlier in the season ; or, that this susceptibility has been 
preternaturally induced by the extrinsic conditions in which it has been kept ; it 
will be seen that the nearer approach is made to the adoption of the above 
directions in the management of either of these plants, the more perfect will be their 
developments and production. 
All plants, be they ever so hardy naturally, may be reduced to a state of 
tenderness by subjecting them to artificial circumstances. How much more marked 
therefore will be the results of such treatment, when its subject is originally only 
half-hardy ! If C. ccsrulea had been grown according to the principles herein 
set forth, instead of being rendered less hardy, as is the consequence of a contrary 
practice, it would most probably have been by this time capable of enduring, with- 
out shelter, any change of temperature that occurs in our climate. Nothing tends 
more powerfully to demonstrate this assumption, than the fact of C. Sieholdii being 
now nearly as hardy as any other exotic species. 
Whether trained to the rafters or back of a greenhouse, to a trellis beneath its 
roof, or to a conservative wall in the open ground, both these plants have a very 
showy appearance for the first two or three years ; but, after this time, the lower 
part of their stems becomes denuded, and they lose thereby much of their interest. 
This is equally the case with all the species of Clematis^ and, wherever they are 
cultivated, they should be trained in a peculiar manner. It is of little consequence 
whether they be kept in a greenhouse or in the open air, provided the preceding 
hints on their general cultivation and the following observations on training be 
practised. 
These kinds of climbing plants produce long straggling shoots, the newly- 
formed parts of which, whether terminal or lateral, alone bear flowers. To ensure 
a uniform distribution or a pleasing display of these flowers, the shoots must be 
arranged spirally round a circular, square, or triangular trellis. The two first of 
these forms are preferable ; and they may either be affixed to the outside of a pot, 
or inserted in the soil, if the specimen is growing in the open ground. By this 
method, young shoots can easily be trained over the old ones that are bare, and a 
symmetrical mass of verdure and beauty will be the consequence. Each coil may 
be kept at about two inches from the one below it, either closer or wider if neces- 
sary. Messrs. Young, of Epsom, possess some splendid specimens, disposed in this 
manner, which, when in flower, are unrivalled by any other greenhouse plant with 
which we are acquainted ; the blossoms being regularly arranged over the whole 
plants, from the extremities to the base. 
The most common mode of propagating these species is by layers. By securing 
each bud of the shoot to be layered at a trifling distance below the surface of the 
soil, they will after a time project roots ; and, by the severance of the shoot between 
the buds, a quantity of plants, equal to the number of buds, will be obtained. 
