Clematis Pruning
QLEMATIS require regular and correct pruning if they are to grow and flower satisfactorily, and not all types are treated in the same manner. The familiar purple flowered C. Jackmanni and others of its section, such as Comtesse de Bouchard, Gipsy Queen, Star of India and Mrs. Cholmondeley, being summer and autumn bloomers, flowering on the young or summer shoots, are pruned by cutting back the current season's growtli fairly hard in autumn, say about May, to within ISin. of the ground. The penalty for not doing this is a mass of long leafless stems covered by a mop of leaves and a crowd of undersized blooms. The Viticella varieties —examples of which are Ville de Lyon, Ascotiensis and Mad. Grange—are pruned in the same manner. The pruning of other typos should not be undertaken before August and in their case consists only of thinning, by removing weak, straggling or overcrowded branches.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24250, 16 April 1942, Page 2
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154Clematis Pruning New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24250, 16 April 1942, Page 2
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