Plate 141 . 
BEGONIA — “ ROYALTY/' 
Every reader of the Floral Magazine will remember our figure of Messrs. Veitch’s superb 
Begonia intermedia , given by us on Plate 5 of the New Series. This hybrid plant (perhaps 
the finest Begonia either hybrid or species ever till then known) is one of the parents of the 
plant we now figure, the other parent being Mr. Williams’s B. C/iambersii. Begonia inter- 
media was a hybrid between B. Bolivensis and B. Veitchii ; and as both these plants have 
been figured in our former volumes, our readers are in a good position to understand the 
whole parentage of our plant. Begonia Chambersii we have not figured, but it is again a 
garden hybrid between B. Beared and B. Sedeni, retaining the markings of the first- 
named parent, with larger leaves. B. Chambersii lias large flowers rosy-salmon inside and 
pink without, these flowers being very freely produced. A glance at our Plate will now 
show how completely Mr. Williams’s grand new Begonia Royalty partakes of the characters 
of both its parents, and how it is at the same time a great step in advance of both. Begonia 
Royalty has very much the habit of B. Beared , and is in every respect as dwarf and free- 
flowering, this dwarfiness of habit, its free-flowering properties, and the gigantic size of its 
individual flowers, render it, without doubt, the finest of all the hybrid Begonias ever offered 
to the public. The colour of the blooms is intermediate in shade between the rosy-salmon of 
B. Chambersii and the intense scarlet-carmine of B. intermedia. Begonia Royalty has been 
deservedly awarded a first-class certificate by the Royal Horticultural Society ; and it only 
remains for us to add, that the entire stock of the plant is in the hands of Mr. B. S. 
Williams, of Upper Holloway. 
Plate 142 . 
CLEMATIS — “ LUCIE LEMOINE.” 
Clematis “ Lucie Lemoine ” was exhibited by Messrs. Yeitch and Sons at the Exibition of 
the Royal Horticultural Society on March 4th last, and was awarded a first-class certificate. 
Our figure was taken from one of Messrs. Yeitch and Sons plants, at Chelsea. This 
Clematis is of the C. Fortunei (Florida) type, and is invaluable on account of its extreme 
purity of colour; it is, moreover, remarkable in possessing a curious involucre of seven or 
more leaves below its blossoms, many of which leaves are white and petal-like. Clematis 
“ Lucie Lemoine ” is, we are informed, a recent continental variety, raised by Lemoine, notable 
at once for its fine double and perfectly symmetrical white flowers, which do not show the 
greenish tint so often met with in C. Fortunei (figured by us on Plate 153, Old Series), C.Jlorida- 
jjlena, &c. The flowers are well set off by a compact tuft of primrose-coloured stamens ; and 
the plant may be considered as altogether a decided advance upon the double white kinds 
already in the hands of the public. Our plant belongs to the section of large-flowered 
summer bloomers generally found flowering from the old or ripened wood, from J une to 
September. The leaves in this group are variable, some being three-parted (ternate), or 
sometimes twice tliree-parted (biternate). Where it can be provided, say Messrs. Jackman 
and Son, a rich soil of a light loamy texture is the best for all varieties of Clematis ; and if 
this is mixed either naturally or artificially with chalk or lime so much the better. Thorough 
drainage is indispensable to good healthy development, and the vigour of the plant must be 
kept up by at least annual manuring with horse or cow manure. Pruning should take place 
in February or March. 
