Clematises as specimens on the lawn are very beautiful when well trained and attended to. At Holme Lacy, Hereford, such specimens may be seen, and during the months of August and September they are pillars of bloom and are much admired. They are planted out in well-prepared round beds, and trained to an upright round trellis about 7 to 8 feet high; they are about 2 feet 6 inches in diameter at bottom, and taper to the top. As the young growths appear they are tied down for about two months. If they are allowed to grow straight up at first the base does not get properly furnished. As the plants increase with age tie or peg some of the old wood at pruning time close to the ground, and regulate the other up the trellis as required, when, if properly trained, at flowering time they are one mass of bloom from the ground to the top of the trellis. - A Young, in Four, of Horticulture.