cultivation near Yedo, and is, I think, one of the most beautiful 
of the family; the colour of its flowers is rare and very beautiful, 
a kind of violet-blue, with crimson and carmine shining through 
it. It will require the same treatment as Clematis florida , and 
is no doubt quite as hardy.” 
In the report of the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticul¬ 
tural Society (Proceedings, vol. iii. p.227) they are thus described: 
“ Clematis Fortunei, a magnificent hardy Japanese climber with 
downy ternate leaves, the terminal leaflet of which in the plant 
produced was three-lobed. The flowers are very large, double, 
white, and with a delicious scent somewhat resembling orange 
blossom; the flowers were remarkable for having the sepals 
stalked, instead of sessile ; it was a very distinct and remark¬ 
ably fine plant. Clematis florida Standishii, a very handsome 
Japanese plant, apparently a variety of C. florida , having the 
sepals sessile as in that species, the flowers were of a deep 
violet-blue; it was regarded as quite an acquisition.” Both 
plants were awarded first-class certificates. When to this we 
add, that the gardening periodicals have been unceasing in their 
approbation of them, that the double variety has been pro¬ 
nounced by eminent judges, “ the flower of the year,” and that 
their cultivation is about as easy as that of the common Honey¬ 
suckle, we think that we are not far wrong in ascribing to them 
a high position, and in predicting their great popularity. 
