. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. te leaflets; itsflowers have sepals of a bluish-lilac, forming a guard to theflowers like the guard-petals of a Hollyhock, within which is arosette of smaller sepal-like bodies, which are of a deep bluish-lilac to the base, forming a full double flower; in the centre isa tuft of white filaments and yellow anthers. It has of the flower-stalks being pendent, while the blos-soms themselves turn upwards, and are thus shown off tothe best advantage. It is one of the best of its the C. lanuginosa
. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. te leaflets; itsflowers have sepals of a bluish-lilac, forming a guard to theflowers like the guard-petals of a Hollyhock, within which is arosette of smaller sepal-like bodies, which are of a deep bluish-lilac to the base, forming a full double flower; in the centre isa tuft of white filaments and yellow anthers. It has of the flower-stalks being pendent, while the blos-soms themselves turn upwards, and are thus shown off tothe best advantage. It is one of the best of its the C. lanuginosa typo, which consists of climbing large-flowered summer and autumn blooming kinds, that flowersuccessionally on short lateral summer shoots, the followingare the best, viz.:—Mrs. IMoore, a variety belonging to theintermediate group; its leaves are deeply cut, with ratherlarge ovate leaflets; its flowers are remarkable among themid-season varieties for their size, measuring as much as from Supplement to Thu Garden, Office: J? Southa-mplon Street, Covent, Gardea, London CLEMATIS VESTA IHORT. April 29, 18?60 THE GARDEN. 409 8 in. to 9 in. across ; the sepals, sis in number, are white,showing in the jouug state a slight mauve shade along thebar. The other is Beauty oE Surrey, a handsome flowers are of a light greyish-blue colour, which ren-der it an admirable plant for contrasting with thosehaving flowers of a dark hue. It has been described as agreat advance towards a bright blue summer Clematis. In the0. Jackmanni typo, which consists of climbing, mostly large-flowered, summer and autumn bloomiug kinds, flowering suc-cessionally in profuse continuous masses on summer shoots,Lady Stratford de Redcliffe is an improvement on some of theolder varieties. Its flowers, which are eight-sepalled, measurefully (3 in. across, and are of a delicate mauve colour with agreenish tint in the centre bar or rib ; the anthers, which areat first chocolate-red, soon become grey. Of
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