A stout lattice was nailed against the house, up which in summer a flowering clematis twined and clustered.
There's the other half the gun sticking out half-way up the clematis frame!
These single wild species of Clematis are more graceful than the large Hybrids now common; they are very hardy and free.
There are, for example, many species of Clematis which have never come into cultivation, but which are quite as beautiful as any climbers.
Before the end of February we must be sure to prune and train any plants there may be of Clematis flammula.
As one lovely group for May I recommend Moutan Paeony and Clematis montana, the Clematis on a wall low enough to let its wreaths of bloom show near the Paeony.
The wild Clematis is most frequent on the chalk, where it laces together whole hedges and rushes up trees, clothing them in July with long wreaths of delicate bloom, and in September with still more conspicuous feathery seed.
I have dreams of having a little cottage built there, with the daisies up to the door, and no path of any sort--just big enough to hold myself and one baby inside and a purpleclematis outside.
All the varieties of clematis may also be readily increased by cuttings made of the young shoots, which may be cut up to every eye and planted in gentle heat.
Also by grafting any of the varieties on portions of clematis roots in winter.
Just before reaching the road she saw some clusters of clematis on the side of the brook, which at her desire I gathered.
After we were left alone that Saturday morning (Hatty writes) Mrs. Prentiss gathered quite a bunch of the wild ageratum, and then dug up the roots of three wild clematis vines with her scissors.
Then I undertook the old fence with the clematis on it here at home, and made a horrid daub.
There were clumps too, of the walnut and persimmon, with vines of the white and yellow clematis tangled amid their branches.
Brilliant, indeed, was the coloring where the rich clusters of azaleas grew, and the tangled masses of clematis and honeysuckles.
The house is old, turreted like a chateau, overgrown with clematis and passion-flower.
A white clematis in full bloom clambered over the eaves of the low stone house and a blush rose nodded at its door, beside which was placed a rough bench made of square stones and two large slabs, equally moss-covered and worn.
Elinor, mounted on a footstool, was intent on arranging a sprig of clematis to the best advantage, in the beautiful dark hair of her cousin Jane Graham, who was standing for that purpose before a mirror.
I think theclematis would look better on the other side.
White violets and a groundclematis are the only ones I have come across in any quantity.
I looked through the half-open persiennes with a semi-presentiment that it was my sweet foreigner who was leaving ere I could presume on my clematis or improve our acquaintance.
Clematis hid her face among the vine leaves, feeling that the palace was no longer a fit home for a delicate, high-born flower like herself.
Clematis astonished every one by suddenly beginning to climb the maple-tree and shake her silvery tassels like a canopy over the Queen's head.
But the proud Cardinals by the brook blushed with shame at the idea of a queen; the Fringed Gentians shut their blue eyes that they might not see the bold Asters; and Clematis fainted away in the grass, she was so shocked.
I saw masses of wild clematis scrambling everywhere, so that the hedge looked as if somebody had been dressing it up in tufts of feathers.
And the common name for Clematis is Traveller's Joy.
The wind swept down the Close in little gusts, and dashed cold drops against the window pane, and in the intervals sprays of the honeysuckle and clematis tapped on the glass, and the leaves rustled.
The picture shows how it looks a day or two after it is first arranged, early in June when the Clematis montana is still in bloom.
Nothing does better on north or east walls, and it is pleasant to see the way the Clematis flings its graceful garlands over and through the stiff branches of the Viburnum.
Then all these might be intergrouped with great brakes of the free-growing Roses and the wilder kinds of Clematis and Honeysuckle.
It is a bushy mass of Clematis recta, now out of bloom.
We plant behind them the white Everlasting Pea, and again behind thatClematis Jackmanni.
Clematis and white Everlasting Pea are planted so that they can be trained to cover the Gypsophila when its bloom is done and the seed-pods are turning brown.
It occurs between the overhanging purple Clematis and the nearer groups of Cineraria maritima and Santolina.
One group of this is trained over the bluish-leaved Clematis recta, which goes out of flower with the third week of July.
From Llandaff I went to Tenby, an indescribably delightful place, with its varied coast, its wonderful caves, its rich festoons of clematis hanging over the cliffs, and its sapphire and chrysoprase seas.
The time of year is quite beautiful, and all the last festival of nature in the clematis wreaths and the bryony with its red berries dancing from tree to tree.
The wreaths of wildclematis faded ashen gray, and were scattered by the winds.
The wild clematis was in blossom now; the fences were white with it, and the rusty cedars were crowned with virgin wreaths; but the weeds were thick in the garden and in the potato patch.
I lifted back the purpleclematis to get a better view.
I told the driver that I wished to find a clean, comfortable lodging, with the view mentioned in the guide-book, and with a purple clematis over the door, if possible.
An hour had gone by imperceptibly before I descended the slope to Clematis Lane.
Here and there, on the dry bank over which the clematis projected like an eave, there stood tall campanulas, their blue bells as large as the fingerstall of a foxglove.
A few blackberries were ripe, but theclematis seemed to have overcome the brambles, and spoilt their yield.
Perhaps it was a peacock; for there was a peacock-butterfly in Clematis Lane.
Trailing over the low bushes, the leaves hid the hawthorn and bramble, so that the hedge was covered with clematis leaf and flower.
Clematis crispa is of Southern origin; the flowers are one and a half inches long, produced singly on long stalks, and delightfully fragrant, a rapid grower, and perfectly hardy.
A lady writes to Vick's Magazine that she has a Clematis graveolins which is a wonderful sight.
Clematis Sieboldii is a native of Japan, whence it was introduced by Mr. Low in 1837.
Clematis graveolins is a native of the mountains of Thibet.
Clematis coccinea is of recent introduction from Texas, the flowers are bell-shaped, of a most brilliant scarlet, and are produced in great abundance.
Now couldn't you be on the lookout for us, and have some more missionary clematis for sale?
Come, girls, follow your leader to this bottom, wherever it is, and let us gather clematis while we may.
Wouldn't it be lovely if we could have about half this clematis to decorate her room with?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clematis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
