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CL1 BRANS’ LIST OF HARDY CLIMBERS, 1909-10. 
CLEMATIS. 
ALL ARE IN POTS AND MAY BE PLANTED OUT AT ANY SEASON. 
The Clematis, with its brilliant colours, freedom of bloom and hardiness, is 
probably the most popular of all climbing plants. The free-flowering sorts are well 
adapted for massing in large beds, and when in flower are most effective. A richly 
manured soil is indispensable, if the best result is aimed at. Manure ought to be 
well mixed with the soil when planting, and used annually as a mulch for winter 
protection, forking it in very lightly in the spring. The addition of chalk or lime 
to the soil when planting is also beneficial. 
TIME OF FLOWERING. — The Jackmanni, and lanuginosa sections bloom from July to 
October; vilicella and ccerulea odorata from July to September; patens and montana in May 
and June; florida in June and July; Clematis indivisa and indivisa lobata are tender kinds, and 
flower indoors from February to May. 
PRUNING. — The Jackmanni , lanuginosa, vilicella, and ccerulea sections should be pruned 
in early winter, after the flowering season, cutting the shoots back well into the old wood, as 
they bloom on the current year's growth; florida, patens, and montana sections should only 
have the weak and unnecessary shoots cut out, as they bloom on the previous year’s ripened 
wood. 
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Clematis, “ Comtesse de Bouchard.” 
[ Clibrans 
