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Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS 
earth, for moving to a (hady fituation, occafionally in 
fummer, and to (helter in winter; cr fome cuttings plant¬ 
ed in pots in fpring, and plunged in any hot-bed of 
moderate heat, it will forward their rooting fooner, 
giving the whole lhadeand necefiary watering, they will 
all root freely the fame feafon, in fix or eight weeks; 
and when a little advanced in a top-growth, plant them 
out, fome fingly in fmall pots, others in a bed or bor¬ 
der ; give water and (hade in hot weather, (helter 
them in winter, and may afterwards be tranlplanted 
into the full ground. 
Likewife by layers of the under-branches, the larg¬ 
er and other kinds may alfo be propagated, layed in 
autumn or fpring. 
In their general culture they may be permitted to 
advance in their natural, branchy, bulky growth; or 
any of the large forts may have irregular or low, 
draggling branches pruned; and to cut out cafual, 
dead (hoots, killed by froll: or other accidents. 
Clematis, (Climber) or VIRGIN’S BOWER. 
Clafs and Order. 
Polyandria Polygynia, 
Many Males , Many Females ; 
Or Flcixers (Hermaphrodite) ha-uing many Stamina or 
Males , and many Pijlillums or Females. 
THE Clematis comprifefeveral fpecies of climb¬ 
ing, (hrubby plants, to admit in Ihrubberies and other 
compartments of the pleafure-ground, for variety, as 
climbers, and fome for their ornamental flowering; 
producing long, (lender, trailing items, afcending 
upon fupport of trees, fltrubs, buihes, poles. Sec. ma¬ 
ny feet in one feafon; clcathed, fome with compound, 
winged leaves of many folioles, others with trifoliate, 
ternate and Ample leaves; and numerous flowers, fingly 
and in clufters ir. the different fpecies, blue, red, 
white. Sec. each formed of four oblong petals, with¬ 
out any calyx, containing many (lamina and piftil- 
lums; fucceeded in the latter by many roundifh feeds, 
terminated by the permanent ftyles, which in fome 
forts ripen plentifully in this country, others not, 
and by which the plants may be raifed; but as they 
grow freely by cuttings and layers, they are more com¬ 
monly propagated by thofe methods. 
Characters .—The flowers hermaphrodite, no calyx 
or cup;'Vorolla or flower, four oblong, loofe petals; 
ftamina, numerous, (hort filaments, having the anthe- 
ra attached to the fides; piltillum, many roundilh- 
comprefled germir.a, fupporting awl-(hapcd ftyles, 
longer than the ftamina, terminated each by a Angle 
ftigma; and the gerinina become round! (h-ccmprcfled 
feeds, colledted into a head, and terminated by the 
ftyles, forming a tail to each feed. 
FLOWERS, and FRUITS. 
The Species of the hardy Shrubby CLEMATIS are, 
i. Clematis Viticella —(Viticella) or Virgin’s 
Bower. 
A climbing, (hrubby plant, rifing with many (terns 
or branches, ten to fifteen or twenty feet high—the 
leaves double-compound, branching into ( divifions 
compofed of many oval, intire foiiojes or leaflets, by 
threes ; and blue and other coloured flowers fingly; 
June and July.—Native of Italy and Spain, in hedg¬ 
es. (Any foil.) 
Varieties .—Common Angle Blue Virgin’s Bower, 
Pnrple-flcwered Virgin’s Bower. 
Red-flowered Virgin’s Bower. 
Double-flowered Virgin’s Bower. 
2. Clematis Vioma —(Viorna) or Purple Ameri¬ 
can Virgin’s Bower. 
A climbing, (hrubby plant, afcending ten or twelve 
feet high—the leaves double-compound, of many 
heart-lhape folioles, by threes, the folioles fometimes 
triad; and purple flowers fingly, with coriaceous pe¬ 
tals; July.—Native of Carolina and Virginia. (Any 
foil.) 
3. Clematis crifpa. Curled-flowered American 
Climber. 
A moderate, (hrubby climber, growing four, to five 
or fix feet—the leaves Ample and three folioled, with 
the folioles of the leaves both intire and three-lobed; 
and purple flowers fingly, curled or waved internally; 
July.—Native of Carolina. (Any foil.) 
4. Clematis orientalis. Oriental or Ealtern Cle¬ 
matis. 
A moderate, (hrubby climber, extending eight or 
ten feet—the leaves compound, nine-folioled, with 
the leaflets cut, angular, lobated wedge-fhape; and 
yellow-green flowers, having the petals hairy within; 
April and May.—Native of the Ealt. 
5. Clematis ckrhofa , Cirrhofe or Climbing-ten- 
trilled, Evcr-grecn Virgin’s Bower. 
An ever-green, (hrubby climber, extending fix or 
eight feet, branchy and bulhy—the leaves Ample, 
ovate, fometimes Angle, double and ternate; and with 
climbing cirrhi or clafpers; large, greeniih flowers in 
winter.— Native of Spain and Portugal. (Any foil.J 
6. Cle- 
