Plate 215. 
CLEMATIS EUBBO-YIOLACEA. 
Some years ago the introduction of Clematis lanuginosa added 
a very handsome and hardy member to our flowering climbers, 
and very lately Mr. Fortune brought from Japan those two very 
beautiful varieties, figured by us in a former volume, C. florida 
Standishii and C. Fortunei, while the skill and energy of our 
cultivators at home have produced such plants as C. Begince , 
raised by Mr. Anderson Henry, and which we have also figured; 
and quite recently Mr. Geo. Jackman, of the Woking Nursery, 
has exhibited two very beautiful varieties raised by him, called 
Clematis Jackmanii and C. rubro-violacea , the latter of which 
forms the subject of our present Plate. 
Selecting as the parent of his intended family C. lanuginosa , 
Mr. Geo. Jackman, jun., hybridized it with C. Viticella , and has 
given an interesting account in the pages of the ‘Gardeners’ 
Chronicle ’ of the result of his experiments, which have quite 
equalled his most sanguine expectations. His batch of seed¬ 
lings flowered for the first time in 1862, and comprised every 
shade of purple, from the very lightest up to dark maroon, and 
from them he selected two, of unquestionable merit, which 
were named as we have already stated. They were shown 
before the Floral Committee in August, 1863, and were then 
awarded first-class certificates. 
We have seen both varieties, and hardly know to which we 
should award the palm; and we are told by a contemporary, 
that a plantation of these seedling Clematis, supported on 
stakes six feet high, has produced during the present season, at 
Mr. Jackman’s nursery, thousands of blooms, and that the effect 
has been wonderfully beautiful. Nor is there any reason why 
the same should not be obtained in every garden. These plants 
