5 5 THE GARDENER’S V 
6 . Clematis virgixiana, Virginia broad three-leav¬ 
ed. Clematis. 
A ftrong, flirubby climber, extending many feet 
—the leaves ternate or three-folioled, having the fo- 
lioles heart-lhape, fub-lobated angular and climbing; 
and dioecous, white flowers; June, July.—Native of 
North America. {Anyfoil.) 
7. Clematis Vitalba — {Vitalha, White Vine) 
White, wild Climber, or Traveller’s Joy. 
A flrong, (hrubby climber, extending twenty or 
thirty feet—the leaves pinnated, of many heart-lhape, 
climbing leaflets, by fives or fevens; and many bunch¬ 
es of white flowers; June, July, with feeds, having 
long, white beards.—Native of England and moil parts 
of Europe and America, in hedges. Sec .— {Any foil.) 
Varieties. —Indented-leaved Traveller’s Joy. 
Intire-leaved Traveller’s Joy. 
8 . Clematis maritima , Maritime or Sea Clematis. 
An under-ihrubby plant, ereftiih and trailing; the 
Hem Ample, fix-angled—leaves pinnated and linear. 
—Native near the Adriatic Sea, Venice, and Mont¬ 
pelier. 
Thefe eight fpecies of Clematis are very hardy 
plants, to grow in any common foil and fituation, and 
to admit in ihrubberies and other compartments, for 
variety in their climbing growth and ornamental flow¬ 
ering ; and are all eafily propagated, fome by feed oc- 
cafionally, or the whole more commonly andexpediti- 
oufly by layers, and fometimes by cuttings; each me¬ 
thod performed, either in fpring or autumn, or the 
layers and cuttings alfo in fummer, and will root the 
fame feafon. 
They being moftly trailing and climbing plants, ad¬ 
vance with long, flender Hems and branches, extending 
many feet, in a fwift growth, in their peculiar manner, 
either trailing on the ground or afeend upon any adjacent 
fupport, fome in a creeping order, others climbing by 
their tendrils or clafpers, attaching themfelves to 
trees, bufhes, hedges, &c. and as they afeend, flower at 
the joints, in their refpe&ive feafons, feveral of which 
appear very ornamental; others, though lefs confpicu- 
ous, difplay an entertaining variety; and therefore the 
plants confidered as climbers, are proper to introduce in 
particular compartments, where they can have fupport, 
orfome to run over rural bowers, arbours andfeats, more 
particularly the Common Virgin’s Bower, for the fu- 
perior beauty of its flowers, which is alfo eligible to 
train againft walls, trellifes, poles, &c. in any con- 
fpicuous fituation; and which, and the other forts. 
EGETABLE SYSTEM 
may alfo be admitted in Ihrubberies, wood-walks, 
wildernefs compartments, recefles, to afeend upon 
trees, lhrubs, bufhes, or other fupport; in all of which, 
they will have an agreeable efl'ett in their climbing 
growth, various foliage and flowers; but of which^ 
the Clematis Viticella, or particularly the double variety 
thereof, exceeds moll of the others in its ornamental 
flowers; however, all, or any of the other forts, are 
eligible to admit in the order above-mentioned, for va¬ 
riety, and to diverfify particular dillri&s, where 
thought neceflary. 
Moll of thefe plants are raifed in the nurferies for 
fale, where any defirable forts may be procured for 
planting. 
They may be planted in autumn or fpring, or almoft 
any time in mild weather, from Odtober, to March or 
April. 
They are propagated fometimes by feed, fowed in 
autumn or fpring; but principally by layers, in fpring 
and fummer, which will foon emit roots the fame year; 
chufing the young Ihoots, or branches furnilhed there¬ 
with ; peg them down in the ground, and lay the Ihoots 
in earth, the Hem of each two or three inches deep, the 
top continued upright, a few inches above the furface; 
they will be fufliciently rooted to plant off in autumn; 
or likewife cuttings planted in the fpring will be rooted 
the following fummer: and in all of which, when the 
plants have advanced in top-lhoots, of one, two or 
three years growth, they are proper for tranfplanting 
where they may be required. 
When in the allotted compartments in the pleafure- 
ground, Sec. being planted where they may have fup¬ 
port, conduit the Items thereto; or where any are 
againll arbours, walls or trellifes, train them with 
fome regularity, and in their advanced growth, prune 
out weak, or very crouding and irregular wood, or 
where any extend out of bounds, fhorten them accord¬ 
ingly; butthofe planted to afeend up trees, poles. Si c. 
may run in their natural order. 
Clethra— (CLETHRA) 
Clafs and Order. 
Decandria Monogynia, 
Ten Males , One Female ; 
Or Flonjuers {Hermaphrodite) having ten Stamina or 
Males, and one Pijiillum or Female. 
THIS genus Clethra furnilhes but one fpecies, a de¬ 
ciduous flowering-lhrub, of upright, moderate growth, 
having- oblong leaves, and terminal fpikes of white, 
ornamental flowers, of five petals, fucceeded by round- 
ifh capfules, filled with angular feeds; not always 
ripening plentifully in this country: are obtained 
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