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spreading, height one foot ; flowers crimson 
scarlet ; comes into bloom in June, lasts four 
months ; common soil. 
Verhe7ia: var. Blue Queen. — Habit spread- 
ing, height one foot ; flowers blue lilac ; comes 
into bloom in June, lasts four months ; com- 
mon soil. 
Verbena : var. 3felindres major. — Habit 
spreading, height six inches ; flowers scarlet ; 
comes into bloom in June, lasts five months ; 
common soil. 
Verheim : var. Stewartii — Habit spread- 
ing, height six inches; flowers purple crim- 
son ; comes into hloom in June, lasts four 
months ; common soil. 
Verhena : var. Emperor of China. — Habit 
spreading, height nine inches ; flowers bright 
scarlet ; comes into bloom in June, lasts four 
months ; common soil. 
Verhena: var. Valentine de Savoye. — Habit 
spreading, height nine inches ; flowers dark 
pui-ple ; comes into bloom in June, lasts four 
months; common soil. 
These plants, or a selection from them, will 
afford the means of rendering a flower garden 
permanently ornamental through the summer 
season. In the preceding notes, the com- 
mencement and duration of the blooming 
season is computed on the supposition that 
the plants are properly prepared, and planted 
out, with all needful precautions, during the 
earlier part of the month of May. Young 
plants should be raised annually during the 
latter part of the summer, and kept through 
the winter in dry airy pits, or light green- 
houses, secure from frosts.- These in the 
spring should, if needful, be re-potted into 
larger pots, and kept in a free-growing state, 
thoroughly hardened by gradual exposure in a 
cold frame through the month of April, and 
finally planted out as soon in May as the 
weather promises to be genial. If cold winds 
or frosts subsequently occur, some protection 
is essential: it is generally afforded by stick- 
ing evergreen boughs moi'e or less thickly 
among the plants, unless they are few and 
compact enough to be covered at night by 
inverted flower-pots. Some of the very free 
plants, such as Verbenas, are quite as well, 
perhaps better, propagated in spring (Febru- 
ary), if there is the convenience of a warm 
situation to excite the growth of shoots to 
form cuttings, of a hot-bed frame in which to 
strike the cuttings, and of frames with a slight 
warmth to grow in, and subsequently to 
harden them. Others, as the Pelargoniums, 
are better raised early the preceding summer, 
and somewhat stunted till tlie spring, and 
then got into a free state of growth by plant- 
ing-out time. The Calceolarias should always 
be struck late in autumn, for the early cuttings 
never root freely. 
CLEMATIS INDIVISA. 
Clematis indlvisa, Willdenow (undivided- 
leaved Virgin's Bower). — Ilanunculaceas § CIq- 
matete. 
The accompanying engraving represents a 
variety of the Clematis indivisa to which the 
name lohata is applied, in consequence of the 
leaves being lobed, or divided, iu which 
respect only it differs from the species. It is 
a very ornamental plant, in consequence of 
the large size, the profusion, and the pure 
white of its blossoms. 
Like the majority of the species of Cle- 
matis, or Virgin's Bower, the present is a free- 
growing climbing plant, extending its long 
slender branches over a considerable space. 
These are furnished with ternate (three- cleft) 
leaves, the bases of whose stalks are connate, 
that is to say, the bases meet, and are, as it 
were, continued around the stem, as if the 
stem had pierced through the united stalks of 
each pair of leaves ; the leaflets are ovate, 
and of a leathery texture, quite undivided in 
the original species, but divided into small 
lobes in the present variety. The flowers 
grow in panicles, which are often a foot long, 
from the axils of the leaves : they are large 
and copious, making a very conspicuous show; 
they are, moreover, dioecious, and consist of 
spreading oblong segments, which are, in fact, 
the divisions of the calyx, the flowers of the 
clematises not having petals ; the surface of 
these segments is covered with short silky 
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