Plate 175 . 
CLEMATIS BEGIN JE. 
While the indefatigable labours of Mr. Fortune were being 
rewarded in Japan by the discovery of some new and beautiful 
varieties of this tribe (figured in Plate 153), one of our most 
successful hybridizers was adding another equally beautiful one 
to our gardens, in the fine hybrid which we now figure. 
Mr. Isaac Anderson Henry, of Hay Lodge, near Edinburgh, 
is the gentleman to whom we are indebted for this novelty. It 
was raised (we are informed by Mr. Veitch, into whose hands 
it has passed) in 1856, being a cross between Clematis azurea 
grancliflora , as the female plant, and Clematis lanuginosa , as the 
male; it was submitted to the Floral Committee of the Royal 
Horticultural Society on April 22nd, 1862, when it received a 
certificate, and is thus noticed in their Transactions:—“A very 
fine hybrid: it had cordate leaflets, slightly furnished, as were 
the stalks both of the leaves and flowers, with short woolly 
hairs; the flowers were large, of a deep mauve or light violet 
colour, about four inches and a half across, and consisting of 
eight* broadly oval sepals, which measured about an inch and 
a half across, and were somewhat woolly behind. Mr. Henry 
stated that one flower on the plant had a tendency to dupli¬ 
cation, three sepals of an inner row being developed. It was 
awarded a second-class certificate; but it was thought that had 
the plant been produced, so as to show its habit, it could have 
gained the highest award.” 
With regard to its growth, Mr. Veitch says it seems to us 
much preferable to lanuginosa in habit, being better as regards 
foliage, growth, etc. Here, then, is another addition to our 
* This is a misprint, we fancy; for the number, so says Mr. Teitcli, is un- 
tpiestionablv six. 
