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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ May, 
Hunter’s treatment, to wliicli tlie noble results lie has realised are to be attributed. 
Tlie large quantities of water—mostly guano-water—applied, show that Vines 
delight in abundant moisture at the root, while the peculiarities described in 
reference to the subsoil show that drainage is perfect—that, in fact, there is no 
stagnation. Moreover, the stimulus given to root-action by such an abundant 
use of tepid water must be credited with its share of the results.—T. Moore. 
CLEMATIS INDIVISA LOBATA. 
® HIS evergreen Clematis should be grown by all who possess space for 
greenhouse climbing plants, where they can ramble fairly free from restraint. 
f it is a somewhat attenuated grower, roaming away into space indefinitely 
from its base. Hence it is well adapted for mixing with climbing plants 
grown with the least amount of restraint. The leaves are of a neat form and 
a pleasing tint of green, and the blooms, which are not greatly unlike as to their 
size and appearance those of C. montane «, are borne from three to six together on 
branched stalks. They have a somewhat darkened eye of a puce, or reddish- 
purple tint, which contrasts favourably with the pure white of the sepals—pure 
white, that is, when fully blown, as they are nearly green in their infantile state, 
and grow into whiteness and purity. The plant is as hardy as any of its kind 
need be, still to be considered as a greenhouse climber. A plant that we have had 
beautifully in bloom for the past month or two, withstood a temperature of 35° 
for many nights during the past winter. The blooms last moderately well when 
cut.— William Earley, Valentines. 
CHAMiEROPS GRIFFITH!!. 
^F all the flabelliform-leaved genera of Palms, there are few, writes M. 
Carriere in the Revue Horticole , which have of late fixed attention more 
than that of Chamcerops. It is one of those which, by the elegance and the 
hardiness of the species which constitute it, can best furnish us with the 
materials for the ornamentation of gardens and apartments. Established by Linnaeus 
for the only species then known, C. humilis (which is abundant in North Africa, 
where it constitutes broad, generally dwarf, tufts, remarkably difficult of extirpa¬ 
tion, and which is also found on the Mediterranean shore in Spain and Italy), this 
genus has been enriched by several other species, all, however, belonging to the 
temperate regions of the old and new worlds : China, Japan, Nepal, Florida, and 
Georgia. This dispersion in exclusively temperate countries, so remarkable for 
plants of the Palm family, explains why they have received so much attention in 
gardens. 
The species represented in the accompanying figure, C. Griffithii , of Loddiges, 
is, according to that author, a native of the East Indies, where it grows at a 
rather considerable altitude ; nevertheless, it is, in the climate of Paris, adapted 
for the temperate greenhouse, or the orangery, or possibly it might be grown in 
the open air in the South of France, and in Algeria. The unique example which 
