Book  (Oct 2001)  Page(s) 20.  
 
it was the arrival of C. patens, C. lanuginosa, and the early Japanese cultivars C. 'Fortunei' and C. 'Standishii' [the latter two introduced by Robert Fortune] which offered the greatest potential to future breeding...

Website/Catalog  (1912)  Page(s) 77.  
 
Spring & Summer Flowering Clematis.
Flowering during May, June and July.
As these flower upon the ripened wood of preceding year's growth, they must be but slightly pruned in winter.
Fortunei, double, creamy white, rosette formed, sweet scented...  1s. 6d

Book  (1906)  Page(s) 52.  
 
Principal garden varieties of Clematis:
Florida type. (June and July.)
Fortunei... Creamy-white, fragrant (rosette).

Book  (1906)  Page(s) 57.  
 
Clematis Fortunei (Fortune's Clematis).  Japan.  1863.  Flowers white, fragrant, the odour resembling that of orange blossoms; the blooms form large rosettes consisting of stalked creamy-white sepals, having pale coloured filaments in the centre; these are produced at the ends of the young growths.
The leaves are thick and generally trifoliate, the leaflets being cordate with rounded apices.  June and July.  Two varieties may be obtained, the one bearing bluish-lilac flowers (variety Countess of Lovelace), the other being of a lavender-blue colour (variety John Gould Veitch, syn. C. Fortunei cærulea).  (Florida type.)

Book  (1898)  Page(s) 67.  
 
Variétés Horticoles
1er Groupe.—PATENS
Section. IV.—Patens à fleurs doubles.
Fortunei (importée du Japon en Angleterre vers 1860). Fleur d'un beau blanc, à sépales réguliers, mesurant de 15 à 18 centimètres de diamètre.

Magazine  (Oct 1878)  Page(s) 160.  
 
Arbustes d'Ornement en Espalier ...Clematis. — Toutes les espèces et variétés à grandes fleurs : Cl. lanuginosa, patens, Jakmanni, viticella venosa, Fortunei, bicolor, etc., trop connues pour que nous ayons à en faire l'éloge. Très rustiques, terre sablonneuse. Leur ajouter les Cl. glauca, orientalis, biternata, apiifolia, japonica, moins connues qu'elles ne méritent de l'être.

Magazine  (1877)  Page(s) 259, 262, 268.  
 
p. 259: ...vers 1860, le Cl. Fortunei, a été introduit du Japon par M. Fortune ; il est plus vigoureux ; ses fleurs sont semi-doubles et parfumées...

p. 262: Clematis Fortunei. — Fl. des Serres, XV, 103, c. ic. col. — Gard. Chron., 1863, 676, c. ic. xyl. — IlI. hort., 1863, misc. 85, c. ic. x. — Fl. and Pom., 1863, p. 169, tab. — Fl. Mag., II, 1864, t. 153. — Rev. hort., 1867, 367.

p. 268: Clematis Fortunei, flore pleno (flore XV, 103), s. florida, double blanc.

Website/Catalog  (1875)  Page(s) 79.  
 
CLEMATIS. Virgin's Bower.  Waldrebe, Ger. Clematite, Fr.
The Clematis are elegant, slender branched shrubs, of rapid growth, handsome foliage and beautiful large flowers of all colors.  The newer varieties introduced within the last five or six years are great acquisitions.  Either in the open ground as pillar plants, bedding plants, single plants in masses or about rock-work, or cultivated in pots or tubs, the Clematis cannot be excelled.
We append the following from the English "Gardener." Jackman's Clematises: "They are magnificent; and more than this, they do give us some of the grandest things in the way of creepers the horticultural world has ever seen, making glorious ornaments either for walls, verandahs, or rustic poles or pillars, varying in color from deep rich violet hue to dark velvety maroon, and in the newer seedling forms, beautiful shades of pale bright blue."
They will stand the severest Winters if the roots are slightly covered.
Class II. Varieties Flowering in the Spring and Early Summer, on the Old or Ripened Wood.
C. Fortunei.  Rosette-formed, creamy white, sweet-scented.  $1.00.

Book  (1872)  Page(s) Pl. XIII, facing p. 99.  Includes photo(s).
 
Clematis fortunei

Magazine  (Dec 1869)  Page(s) 169.  Includes photo(s).
 
CLEMATIS FORTUNEI.
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION.
This magnificent hardy climber is one of the most recent introductions of Mr. Fortune from Japan, and one of the most remarkable. It has been flowered by Mr. Standish, of the Royal Nursery, Ascot, during the past summer, and at the exhibitions at that season was one of the " lions" amongst new plants. It is indeed a very distinct and very handsome plant, and we owe our obligations to Mr. Standish for the opportunity of figuring it.
As far as can be judged from the aspect of the imported plants, it has very much resemblance to the' other Chinese and Japanese species in its habit and general appearance. The leaves of the stem somewhat resemble those of C. lanuginosa, and consist of three (occasionally one) coriaceous, cordate, very blunt leaflets ; while beneath the flowers is placed, in all the blossoms we have seen, a whorl of six or eight simple (occasionally ternate) stalked leaflets, of similar character to those composing the true leaves, and forming a kind of involucre.
The flowers are quite unique. They are about 6 inches across, double, white, and having a delicious neroli or orange-blossom fragrance. The sepals are not only remarkable for their number, but also for their form, which is oblong-lanceolate, with a small thickened point, and a distinct claw or footstalk an inch long, the broader lamina being about If inch in length. Several (some six or eight) series of these sepals go to form the flower, and in their young state these incurve over the silky tails of the ovaries, much as the florets of the fine varieties of Chrysanthemums are made to do under high cultivation. Gradually, however, they unfold, and the full-blown flowers consist of a broad multiserial border of these peculiar sepals, surrounding a spreading tuft of greenish ovaries, each one terminating in a short caudex or tail, which is silky, from its covering of fine, soft, tawny hairs. The sepals have a central and a few evident lateral reticulating veins. They are slightly downy externally, and the outermost ones are also greenish on the exterior surface; as indeed they are throughout when quite young, but they gradually bleach as the parts become fully expanded, white} as they become older, they acquire a faint roseate tinge. The flowers continue for a considerable time in perfection.
Such is a description of this fine plant, as flowered on the imported specimen, and therefore less perfect than, it may be presumed, it will become when it is brought under the influence of high cultivation, such as English gardeners know how to practise. As a hardy climbing shrub it will have an especial value ; but we may also look to see its massive scented blossoms profusely adorning bushes trained for the exhibition-table, when " some new thing" is most urgently required to impart variety to what is year by year becoming more and more drearily monotonous. Why don't the authorities offer prizes to bring out plants which are not seen at every show year after year ?