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bring on mildew and canker; attend to tbe stopping and thinning the shoots, and 
keep off green-fly, by fumigating with tobacco. Stop and earth-up succession- 
crops, giving them abundance of air in good weather, and not using shading if 
it can be avoided. Syringe the plants in the afternoon on fine days, and close the 
frames early. Sow again, as the plants may be required for succession. In the 
Mushroom-house keep the temperature as cool as possible, sprinkling the beds, 
and maintaining a moist atmosphere. Make fresh beds, which may now be done 
out-of-doors, in a cool situation ; after they are spawned, cover the surface with 
a thick layer of straw or litter.—J. Powell, Frogmore. 
NEW YAEIETIES OF CLEMATIS. 
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 
‘'E need only to invite attention to the accompanying very accurate figures 
of two new varieties of Clematis to convince our readers that they have 
here before them some sterling novelties. Fig. 1 represents the variety 
named Duchess of Teok, and fig. 2 that named Countess of Lovelace, 
both raised by Mr. G. Jackman, of the Woking Nursery. The former is not yet 
offered for sale. The latter is just now in process of distribution, and is unques¬ 
tionably the finest of the double-flowered varieties yet known; indeed, a specimen 
plant of it, shown in a group of well-grown examples staged at a recent exhibition 
at the Eoyal Aquarium, was most strikingly beautiful. 
Clematis Duchess of Tech belongs to an early-flowering section of the lanuginosa 
group, which has been obtained by hybridisation, and to which several of Mr. Jack- 
man’s novelties belong. It has ternate leaves, with large cordate leaflets, and six to 
eight-sepalled flowers, measuring eight inches in diameter, of a pure white^ and of 
exquisite form, as our figure admirably shows. It is, no doubt, one of the very finest 
of the white lanuginosas yet obtained, and together with Mrs. George Jackman 
and Alba magna, should be specially sought for as soon as it is ready for distribution. 
Clematis Countess of Lovelace may be described as a much improved John Gould 
Veitch, the flowers being of a better colour, and the petal-like segments without the 
long claw which makes the centre of that variety thin and open, where this is close 
and dense. This, no doubt, belongs also to the early lanuginosa section. It has ter¬ 
nate leaves, with large broadly-ovate leaflets, and flowers measuring about six inches 
across, composed of six or seven tiers of deep bluish-mauve florets, surrounded by 
a guard of eight large broad sepals of a somewhat deeper or purplish blue. 
These varieties take their place in the first rank of the new varieties of this 
popular climber, and whether for pot-culture, for conservatories, or conservative 
walls, cannot be too highly recommended.—T. Moore. 
EIPENING GEAPES versus WATEEING VINES* 
OWEVEE firmly cultivators may be attached to established notions^ howeVef 
strong and fixed may be their belief in conventional grooves of practice^ 
still there will occasionally crop up new observations which set them think¬ 
ing as to whether some old existing notions may not be set aside^ and the 
