Crossword-Solution: CLEMATISES 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The river, which so nearly surrounds it as to make it a peninsula "in little," doubles around a narrow tongue of land, called the "ox-bow"--a bit of the meadow so smooth, so fantastic in its shape, so secluded, so adorned by its fringe of willows, clematises, grape-vines, and all our water-loving shrubs, that it suggests to every one, who ever read a fairy tale, a scene for the revels of elves and fairies.

The clematises, tropæolums, solanums, gloriosa lilies among leaf-climbing plants; the bignonias, cobæas, bryonies, vines, passion flowers, and other tendril-bearing plants; the ivy, and other root and hook climbers were carefully studied; and botanists for the first time realised fully the advantages which climbing plants possess in the struggle for existence.

The early-flowering Clematises may be used to capital advantage in the same way, from February onward.

CLEMATISES.--Of late years the various forms of Clematis have been grown largely under glass and used for various purposes, not only in the shape of large specimens, but in pots five inches in diameter, the plant being secured to a single stake and carrying several big showy flowers.

Nor is it the azalea alone which claims our admiration; clematises, wild roses, honeysuckles, and a hundred others, mingle their flowers with them, and make us confess that China is indeed the ‘central flowery land.’”[214] ~THE PUN TSAO, OR CHINESE HERBAL.~ A few notices of the advance made by the Chinese themselves in the study of natural history, taken from their great work on materia medica, the _Pun tsao_, or ‘Herbal,’ will form an appropriate conclusion to this chapter.