The Wild Garden (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ... PART II. AN ENUMERATION HARDY EXOTIC PLANTS, SUITABLE FOR Naturalization in our Woods, Semi-wild Places, Shrubberies, etc., NATIVE COUNTRY, GENERAL CHARACTER, HEIGHT, COLOUR, TIME OF FLOWERING, MODE OF PROPAGATING, AND THE POSITIONS MOST SUITABLE FOR EACH. HARDY EXOTIC PLANTS FOR NATURALIZATION. THE BUTTERCUP FAMILY. Hare-bell Virgin's Bower. Clematis campaniflora. Native country: S. Europe. Habit: a climber. Height: 6 to 1 o feet. Colour of flower: purplish. Time of flowering: summer. Manner of propagation: by seed, as in all the kinds, to be sown as soon as gathered, division, or layers.--Suitable positions: copses, banks, old stumps, hedgerows, &c. in ordinary soil. American Traveller's Joy. Clematis Viorna. North America. Climber; 8 to 10 feet; purple; summer and early autumn; seed, division, or layers.--Thin low copses, open sunny banks, rootwork, hedgerows, etc. Vine-bower Clematis. Clematis Viticella. South Europe. Climber; 10 to 16 feet; blue or purple; summer and early autumn; seed or layers.--Fringes of woods, copses, hedgebanks; through wild or semi-wild shrubby vegetation on high banks, tall old stumps, or high rootwork. Sweet-scented Virgin's Bower. Clematis Flammula. Southern Europe. Climber; 10 to 30 feet; white; autumn; seed or layers.--Excellent for almost every use to which a hardy climber may be put, and in the semiwild state for banks, stumps, chalk-pits, hedges, copses, and even for planting in masses in grassy places. Richer sheets of noble bloom are not to be seen in the open air in any northern clime than those produced by the new hybrid clematises raised by Jackman of Woking and others. They are capable of beautifying any position, and seem to conform to almost any mode of culture or training--pegged down, ...