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NEW SPRING-FLOWERINa CLEMATIS. 
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NEW SPRING-FLOWERING CLEMATIS. 
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 
are indebted to Messrs. George Jackman and Son, of the Woking 
Nursery, who have done so much to popularise the Clematis as a garden 
f flower, for the present opportunity of publishing figures of two of their 
splendid varieties of the spring-flowering section of the family represent¬ 
ing Clematis iKitens. Nothing approaching these, as they have been exhibited 
by Messrs. Jackman for the last two seasons, has yet appeared; the size and 
substance of the flowers, together with the free-blooming habit and vigour of 
the plants, being most remarkable. These have both won certificates, and 
several other varieties of the same patens section, and of very great merit, have 
also been exhibited and certificated, especially those named The Queen^ a delicate 
mauve, Vesta, a satiny-white, 3fiss Grawshay, a soft Solferino-rose, Samuel 
Moulson, a mauve, with reddish bars, and Mrs. George Jaohnan, a superb white, 
with extraordinarily large flowers. 
The varieties now figured are Stella (fig 1), and Fair Rosamond (fig 2). 
They were both awarded First-class Certificates by the Royal Horticultural 
Society in 1873, and certainly both well deserved that mark of distinction. 
They belong, as already mentioned, to the patens section, distinguished by its 
spring-flowering habit and its ternate foliage, and they both have flowers which 
are very perceptibly fragrant. Stella, as will be seen from the figure, is an eight- 
sepaled variety, the sepals elliptic, oblong and stalkless, so that they form a full, 
solid-looking flower close up to the richly-coloured stamens. The colour is a 
deep bluish mauve, with a conspicuous bar of reddish plum-colour down the 
centre of each sepal; the filaments are white, and the anthers of a chocolate- 
purple, forming a conspicuous central tuft. Fair Rosamond has also eight-sepaled 
flowers of the same form and imbricating character as those of Stella, but they 
are of a blush-white colour, and have a more or less distinct wine-red bar extend¬ 
ing from the base of the sepals nearly to the apex, but becoming paler upwards ; 
the beauty of this variety is much enhanced by the tuft of deep-coloured stamens, 
which occupies the centre, and which have the filaments purplish-red, white at the 
very base only, the anthers being of a darker purple. The scent in a warm close 
atmosphere is intermediate between that of primroses and violets, and is almost 
equal to that of the latter flower. Some idea of its free-blooming character 
may be formed from the fact that a plant grown over a balloon-shaped trellis, 
2 ft. high, and 1 ft. 3 in. through, bore at one time sixty-five of its fine showy 
blossoms. There can be no doubt that we have here two of the very best of the 
early-flowering sorts. 
These varieties of the patens group prove to be exceedingly ornamental when 
properly cultivated, either as permanent indoor hardy green-house creepers, or 
grown in pots on balloon-shaped or cylindrical trellises for removal to the 
Conservatory whilst in blossom.—T, Moore. 
3rd series. —Yii. q 
