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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOQIST. 
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effects upon the dinner-table during the winter months, a few dozens of these 
little trees, laden with their golden treasures, are most useful. I know of no 
more fairy-like picture than an apple-grove of such trees set upon the dinner- 
table about Christmas. The apples will hang on the trees until March, if they 
have been well ripened, and some sprays of oak, with the leaves upon them (which 
may at all times be had in the winter, where there are young trees) will furnish 
the necessary foliage for sharpening-up the picture and relieving the bareness of 
the little trees. I might add that the heaviest fruit that we have grown of this 
apple this year, weighed twenty ounces.— -Zadok Stevens, Trentham Gardens, 
CLEMATIS INDIVISA LOBATA. 
'HIS very handsome evergreen climber is a plant of vigorous growth, bearing 
cj) creamy-white flowers in great profusion during the spring months. It is 
from New Zealand, and is a very suitable plant for a large house where a 
considerable space has to be covered, and where it has room to develop 
itself sufficiently to exhibit its natural character. It is, moreover, a free-rooting 
subject, and requires to be planted-out, as no ordinary-sized pot could contain 
enough soil to support the growth which it makes. 
In commencing with young plants, it is better to grow them on for a season 
in pots, so as to get them well furnished with roots before turning out into a pre¬ 
pared border. A plant occupying a 6-in. or 7-in. pot should in April be shifted 
to another two or three inches larger. This Clematis grows well in a mixture of half 
peat and loam, with a moderate quantity of sand added to it. For this, as for 
other free-rooting things, it is well not to make the soil too fine; break the turfy 
pieces into bits the size of walnuts, and mix the sand well with it. After potting 
insert in the pots several tall sticks, round these twine the shoots, which should 
be confined to from one to three in number, so that the plants may be induced to 
make considerable progress during the season. When potted place them 
in any ordinary greenhouse, and encourage growth by the usual means 
of damping the atmosphere in bright weather, and shutting up early with sun- 
heat, as also syringing freely overhead. Beyond this nothing will be required 
through the growing season except keeping the shoots regularly trained round 
the sticks. If this is not attended to they get entangled in a way that renders 
it difficult afterwards to separate them. As autumn approaches give more air, 
and discontinue the use of the syringe. Winter the plants in the usual green¬ 
house temperature of about 40° in the night. Warmer than this they should 
not be kept, or they will be induced to make growth through that which 
ought to be a season of complete rest previous to planting-out. This will 
be understood from the plant being indigenous to a country where the winters 
are cool. 
Before planting prepare the border which they are to occupy by efficient 
drainage covered over with a layer of fibrous materialj than which for a strong- 
