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very fine; Nelly Moser, mauve and red; Purpurea elegans, 
violet-purple, light filaments, pink anthers ; Reine Blanche, 
mauve, light Bars, free. The Jackmanii section is a very 
hardy and showy one, bearing its flowers on shoots of the 
current year’s growth, and blooming more or less throughout 
summer and early autumn. The chief kinds are: Jackmanii, 
violet-purple; very free; Jackmanii, alba, white; Jackmanii 
superba, dark violet-purple ; Madame Edouard Andre, velvety- 
red, a rapid grower and free bloomer, the best of the section ; 
Star of India, reddish violet-purple, red bars ; Gypsy Queen, 
velvety-purple. The Florida section bears double flowers in 
summer on the old or ripened wood. The varieties are : Belle 
of Woking, silvery-grey ; Countess of Lovelace, bluish-lilac, 
filaments white and anthers yellow ; Duchess of Edinburgh, 
white and fragrant; Enchantress white, outer petal rose; John 
Gould Veitch, lavender blue ; Lucy Lemoine, white. The Viti- 
cella section bears its flowers on the young shoots in summer 
and autumn, and are profuse bloomers. Lady Bovill, greyish- 
blue; Mrs. James Bateman, pale lavender with dark veins, and 
Thomas Moore, pucy-violet, white stamens, are typical varieties 
of this section. 
Last of all we have the hybrids of C. coccinea, a Mexican 
species, which is scarcely hardy enough to thrive well outdoors, 
except in mild districts. The hybrids, however, are quite 
hardy, and as they bear flowers of a tubular shape with swollen 
bases, they are quite distinct from the preceding types. C. 
coccinea bears flowers varying from crimson to scarlet, with 
yellow interiors in summer. Its shoots invariably die down in 
winter. The hybrids are: Countess of Onslow, violet-purple, 
with a band of scarlet down the centre of each petal ; growth 
vigorous, flowers most useful for cutting. Duchess of Albany 
bears 'ovely bright pink flowers, softening to lilac-pink round 
the margin ; very free grower and bloomer. Duchess of York 
has flowers of a pleasing pink tint ; Grace Darling flowers of 
a bright rosy-carmine ; and Sir Trevor Lawrence is a bright 
crimson. The flowers in each case make splendid subjects for 
indoor decoration. 
Now comes the question of soil, position and planting. 
Clematises require a deep, rich, well-drained, loamy soil to do 
well. On very light or very heavy soils they are short-lived. 
As previously intimated it is helpful to their growth if chalk 
or old mortar can be freely added to the soil before planting. 
Where the soil is not naturally good dig it out to a depth of 
3ft. and width of 4 or 5ft. for each plant, and fill up with two 
parts loam, and one part or equal proportions of rotten manure 
and leaf-mould. A sunny position is desirable in all cases, as 
when grown in the shade the plants do not flower well. The 
