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Show Traveler's-Joy. Traveler s-jov is conspicuous in the hedges of England in the autumn of the year. This clematis and the sweet-scented sweet-scented wild variety adorned the countryside coun-tryside of Europe long before the Chinese Chi-nese and Japanese clematis were introduced in-troduced from the East. Traveler's-Joy Traveler's-Joy Clematis vltalbal is the "vlorne" of France. And no plant in (lie French language Is richer In popular names. Their number Is veritably legion. The more attractive are coinposile words, such ns bariie au bon Dion, cbeveux de la Vierge, cbevieux de la Bonne Dame, consolation des voyngeurs. This last, Is the English "traveler's-ioy," and Itemy de Gourmont in his "Esthetique de la Francaise," lias Ibis Interesting little footnote. The plant was thus named, he says, because It presaged to the traveler his near approach to a village. |