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transplanting, or, if possible, potting-off. They should not be sown before the 
second week in April. In transplanting them press the soil firmly around each 
plant, and give a thorough root-watering. This is all that will be necessary for 
them. In such a position, they appear to gain strength from the very heat of 
the sun, and in such a soil to flourish greatly. Any warm, sunny site possessing 
deep, rich soil, such as an out-doors vinery-border, may be made to give an 
annual display, if after one season’s bloom the seeds are permitted to sow them¬ 
selves, as they will come up annually each spring with great vigour, as self-sown 
seeds generally do. It is scarcely necessary to observe, however, that the border 
should not be dug or forked over in the interim, at least not deeply, if self-sown 
plants are looked for.™ William Earley, Valentines. 
GARDEN GOSSIP. 
F the Exhibition of Clematis , which has been kept up by Messrs G. Jackman 
and Son, of Woking, during the greater portion of the past month, in the 
garden of the Royal Botanic Society, there can be but one opinion—it has 
been altogether novel in character, and it has been of surpassing excellence. 
The show, consisting of from 350 to 400 plants, some bearing from 100 to 150 flowers each, was 
made in the glass corridor leading to the conservatory, which was filled from end to end. The 
larger plants were trained on balloon-shaped wire trellises, of about 2£ ft. in height and width ; 
and the effect of such a multitude of the large star-shaped blossoms Yv T as most charming. 
Amongst the newer varieties of the patens type the following were conspicuous :—Fair Rosa¬ 
mond, blush-white, with an indistinct red bar, and prominent rosette of stamons—a fine flower, 
with the additional attraction of being delicately scented; Mrs. S. C. Baker, French-white, 
with claret bar, fine ; the Queen, pale lavender, or mauve-lilac, and primrose-scented, very 
fine ; Stella, deep mauve, with well-defined reddish plum-coloured bar; Miss Crawshay, 
delicate rosy-pink, a novelty as regards colour, and a free grower ; Lord Derby, pale lavender 
or bluish-mauve, a very free-blooming and showy variety; Lord Mayo, deep rosy-lilac, 
darker towards the base, and especially down the bar, sweet-scented, and very fine; Countess 
of Lovelace, double, with bluish-lilac guard sepals, and a rosette-like deep lilac centre, in the 
style of John Gould Yeitch, but a much superior fiow r er, and a more vigorous grower; Vesta, 
dead-white, with a creamy tint over the central bar, form very fine, one of the best whites 
yet raised ; Ada, lavender-blue, with mauve edges, flowers very freely produced ; Sir Garnet 
Wolseley, rich plum-colour, wdth a shaded red bar, distinct, and a very free bloomer; Mrs. 
George Jackman, a splendid white, larger than Vesta; Prince Alfred of Edinburgh, a delicate 
mauve, with paler, almost white bar; and Early Purple, a reddish-purple or plum-colour, 
passing to deep purple, and like Sir Garnet Wolseley, very useful as a dark-coloured early 
bloomer. Of the florida type Lucy Lemoine proves to be a very great improvement on 
Fortunei. Of the lanuginosa type the following were the now varieties:—Princess of Wales, 
deep bluisli-mauve, a very free grower and flowerer, and remarkable for the depth of its 
colour, and the breadth and refinement of its reflexing sepals ; Robert Hanbury, mauve-lilac, 
shaded red up the bars, a very fine smooth flower of good substance; Morikati Oke, bluish- 
lilac, with a well-marked deeper-coloured margin, pretty, and very free; Angelina, bluish- 
lilac, with edges of a deeper colour, very fine, and free-blooming; Mrs. Hope, large, satiny- 
mauve, very full and reflexed; Alba Magna, a superb white, with the sepals nearly 3 in. broad ; 
Duchess of Teck, another grand white, of very fine quality and distinct inform ; Blue Gem, a 
delicate satiny-mauve. Of the Jackmanni type the most prominent were—Lady Stratford de 
Redcliffe, of a peculiar tint of lilac flushed with red ; and W. E. Essington, of a reddish-violet 
hue, deeper towards the base, a great acquisition, since, though belonging to the summer and 
autumn-blooming sections, it comes into flower naturally with those of the patens type. The 
varieties of the Jackmanni and of the Viticella type do not bear forcing, and consequently 
were not exhibited in their true character. 
- fFfR. William Paul’s annual display of Pot Roses , &c., was held in 
the large Rhododendron tent in the Royal Botanic Society’s Garden, during the 
