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PARK AND CCMCTCR'r 
Garden Plants, — Their Geography, 
RANALES. 
THE RANUNCULUS, MAGNOLIA AND NELUMBIUM ALLIANCE. 
There are 27 tribes, 247 genera and 1,816 spe- 
cies included in this Alliance. Trees, shrubs and 
herbaceous plants, both terrestrial and aquatic, are 
among them. They are beautiful in aspect, hand- 
some in their flowers and as perfect in their struc- 
ture (or as some have it as complicated) as any 
Alliance in the Vegetable Kingdom. It is possible 
to select material from the various tribes with 
which to plant a large garden and have them in 
flower for any particular month, or during all the 
months of the summer. Those who are always at 
home will derive some flowers at all times; those 
who live in cottages on the mountains or by the 
seas, will prefer to concentrate their displays for 
June, July and August. It is useless for these lat- 
ter to plant Peonias, Chinese Magnolias and other 
May flowers. They should choose Clematis, Amer- 
ican Magnolias, Delphiniums and Nympheas, and 
the superintendents of parks and cemeteries should 
also endeavor to occupy their ground with plants 
which bloom at seasons when visitors are a plenty. 
I do not propose to trouble anybody with the 
names of natural orders or tribes. Botanists have 
a disposition to change them constantly, often for 
microscopical reasons, and they are at perfect lib- 
erty to take the responsibility if they will only keep 
the Generic nomenclature fairly unmolested. The 
Genera will be given in the sequence of the Genera 
Plantariini of Bentham and Hooker, and the spe- 
cific names will be those of Johnson’s Dictionary, 
Nicholson’s Dictionary, etc., which will stand until 
the great work of 
the Kew Index is 
complete, and pro- 
bably be but little 
altered. 
Anyone almost 
can afford the $4 
necessary to secure 
the new Johnson, 
and then learn all 
the ordinary man 
needs to know of 
modern plant lore. 
The Clematis 
are very largely 
distributed over 
the sub-tropical 
and temperate re- 
gions of the world. 
Very many spec- 
CLEMATIS JACKMANIL have been des- 
cribed which are not good species at all, but merely 
varieties differing slightly from each other, as 
apples, oranges, or any other plants of wide distribut- 
ion, differ. It is probable that some 70 species will 
be retained, with innumerable geographical and 
garden varieties. 
There are several types, but the “Travellers Joy” 
type (best represented by the Japanese paniculata) 
and hybrid types, first raised by Mr. Jackman of 
England, are most beautiful. Of these latter 
Jackmanii purple, Henry, white, and Star of. In- 
dia, or Madame Ed. Andre, dull red, are most 
distinct. There are a great number of various shades, 
ANEMONE JAPONICA, FL. PL. 
both double and single, and recently hybrids be- 
tween these and the Texan C. coccinea have been 
obtained which may be expected to lead to still 
greater variety both of form and color. The 
English “Virgin’s bower,” C. Vitalba, has been 
used to cover graves from time immemorial. Most 
Clematis are handsome wall, trellis, or pillar plants, 
but some are herbaceous. The garden forms are 
hardy to the lake regions at least, but there are sub- 
tropical or greenhouse species as yet but little known. 
Thalictrum embraces 70 species, distributed 
over Europe, Asia, Africa and North and South 
America. Their flowers remind one a good deal of 
the “Travellers Joy” Clematis. Their leaves are 
often finely and beautifully divided, especially in 
some Asiatic species. They are herbaceous, and 
often worth a place in cemeteries. Seeds of these 
and Clematis are often slow to germinate. 
Anemone is a genus of 85 species 'quite com- 
