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daily attention will be required in stopping and tying out the shoots. Shift all 
plants that require it; in potting be careful to press the soil firmly between the 
ball and the sides of the pot. Continue to shift Soft-wooded Plants as they require 
it. Show and Fancy Pelargoniums now coming into bloom will require liberal 
supplies of water; keep them, near the glass, give them plenty of room and air 
in mild weather, and keep them clear of green-fly. Zonal Pelargoniums , should 
be potted and attended to. Continue to shift Fuchsias for autumn blooming. 
Prick off seedling Cinerarias and Primulas , &c., as soon as they are large enough 
to handle. As the pots and frames become emptied of their winter occupants, 
they will come in for the growth of Balsams , Cockscombs 5 and other tender 
annuals.—M. Saul, Stourton. 
NEW SWEET-SCENTED L AEG E-FLO WERED CLEMATIS. 
LEY few indeed of our popular favourites can boast of such an advance as 
has been made within the last ten years by the Clematis , as a garden 
flower. Picturesque in habit, its chief use, up to that period, had been, 
as a vigorous-growing climber, to form screens for shutting out unsightly 
objects; and except in the case of the hawthorn-scented C. Flammula , popularly 
known as the sweet-scented Virgin’s Bower, an old garden favourite, and 6 f . 
patens , introduced in the fourth, and C. lanuginosa in the sixth decade of the 
present century, they were but lightly esteemed. The acquisition of these, and of 
C. Fortunei and C. Standisliii some ten years ago, has, however, led to a remarkable 
extension of the variety they afford, and also to a wonderful improvement in their 
quality and adaptation to general purposes of decoration—witness the fine 
hybrid varieties we have figured in the Florist alone. The enthusiasm con¬ 
sequent on this improvement has now reached to such a height, that an exten¬ 
sively illustrated popular treatise on this noble flower has been projected, and 
will shortly be issued. 
We do not, however, propose at present to deal further with modern varieties, 
than to notice the most recent acquisition, that of a well-marked fragrance, which 
will add greatly to the interest attaching to those amongst them which possess it, 
and which has been developed among the recent varieties of the spring-flowering 
group, typified by C. patens , all of them, from their early-flowering habit, forming 
splendid climbers for conservatory culture. This fine group of new scented varieties 
has been bred between C. Standisliii, C. Fortunei , and some of the best forms of 
C. patens , by Messrs. George Jackman and Son, of Woking, and we have had 
the pleasure of leisurely inspecting and noting their qualities during the present 
season. The fragrance was first detected in cut flowers which had been sent by 
post, for critical examination ; and it was afterwards discovered that all the forms 
of this particular type, in this batch of seedlings, were odoriferous. The odour 
varied somewhat in character and intensity in the different varieties, but was sug¬ 
gestive of a combination of those of the violet and primrose, that of one or the other 
of these flowers preponderating. The following are the new varieties in question:— 
