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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER 
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in masses nearly a month round the post ; and when we com¬ 
menced to tie it up again to the altered trellis it had made many 
new growths, some of them more than 2 feet in length and quite 
blanched. We were agreeably mistaken, however, in our surmise, 
for it commenced showing its flower buds, and kept on showing 
them until the whole plant was one mass of buds. It opened its 
first flowers this year about nine weeks ago, and to-day (lGth inst.) 
there are still a few left. For eight weeks of that period we cut 
Fig. 81 .—Anthukiitm sflendidum. 
basketfuls of its beautiful white star-like flowers almost daily, yet 
they were scarcely missed, so completely was the plant covered. 
It was literally one 6heet of white, and justly admired by all who 
saw it. 
It has one chief recommendation. I am told its flowers carry 
well, and that is a great consideration to many a gardener. I 
would say to all who have a spare piece of trellis in the green¬ 
house, conservatory, or any cool house—for our greenhouse never 
has any artificial heat applied to it except to keep out frost or 
during cold cutting winds, which are very prevalent in this part— 
to grow a plant of this Clematis, either planted out or in a pot, and 
they shall be rewarded next February and March with an abundance 
of beautiful white flowers, all the more acceptable because white 
flowers are generally very much in demand at this particular 
season. 
The Journal has already of late on more than one occasion, and 
