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CLEMATIS TUBULOSA. 
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grace and loveliness of many common species of Clematis is destroyed by too rigid a 
system of training ; all climbing plants should grow as free and natural as they 
will, consistent with the object that may regulate the disposal of their ramifications, 
and this maxim cannot be too often insisted upon. 
Clematis is from Mema, a vine branch, alluding to the circumstance of most of 
the species climbing in a similar manner to the vine. 
