Book  (1906)  Page(s) 53.  
 
Principal garden varieties of Clematis:
Viticella type. 
Lady Bovill (July to October)... Greyish-blue.

Magazine  (30 Mar 1887)  Page(s) 28.  
 
A ces variétés il faut rattacher les hybrides à fleurs non moins brillantes obtenues chez M. Cripps à Tunbridge Wells par le croisement du C. patens avec le C. Jackmani. Les Clématites M^me Granger, à grandes fleurs pourpre velouté ; Lady Boville, à coloris très foncé, et nigricans, sont probablement issues d’un croisement analogue.

Magazine  (Feb 1879)  Page(s) 50.  
 
The Clematis.
Here is a list of some of the best and most distinct of the [summer]-flowering varieties: Alexandra, Jackmanni, Lady Bovill, lanuginosa, lanuginosa nivea, magnifica, rubella, Thomas Moore, Tunbridgiensis, vilustina purpurea, and viticella rubra grandiflora.

Book  (1879)  Page(s) 38-9.  Includes photo(s).
 
Op de plaat is afgebeeld als:
No. 2. Clematis hybr. Lady Bovill. (Jackmann.)
Deze heeft meer de Cl. patens, hoewel de petalen minder land zijn, niet zoo fladderend, waardoor de bloem een fraaieren vorm verkrijgt; zij telt meestal zes petalen, waarven een gedeelte sluit, terwijl de einden der petalen eenigszins naar buiten overbuigen; de kleur is lichtblauw met zilvergrijs, zeer fraai.  De plant groeit sterk en bloeit onafgebroken.
 

Magazine  (1877)  Page(s) 260, 269.  
 
p. 260: Lady Bovill. — Fl. Mag., 1868, pl. 370.

p. 269: Clematis Lady Bovill (Jackman), s. des lanuginosa; bleu-gris.

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 I. Perpetuals, Flowering in the Summer and Autumn, on Summer Shoots.
C. Lady Bovill.  Cupped, grayish blue flowers.  $2.00.

Book  (1872)  Page(s) 112.  Includes photo(s).
 
Descriptive Notes of Species & Varieties.
C. Lady Bovill (Jackman). — This variety is quite dissimilar to all others which have been obtained, in the cupped form of its blossoms.  The plant is of vigorous growth, and has ternate leaves, with broad cordate leaflets.  The flowers consist of from four to six sepals, which are very downy externally, broad, concave, and overlapping, so as to form a flower of a cup-shaped figure, and about four inches across.  The colour of the sepals is a clear soft grayish blue, the stamens being of a light-brown tint, with pale-coloured filaments.  The flower-buds are deflexed and remarkably downy, and the plant is a free and continuous bloomer.  There is a coloured figure in the Floral Magazine (t. 370).

Magazine  (Jan 1869)  Page(s) 27.  
 
New Plants.
Clematis Lady Bovill (Floral Mag., t.370). — Ranunculaceæ.  One of the fine hybrids raised at the Woking Nursery.  It is distinct in habit from the rest of the novelties which have rendered that place so famous, having more of the character of lanuginosa manifest in the plant.  The buds and exterior of the sepals are quite woolly.  The flowers are large, with short, broad, concave sepals, and the colour is a pale greyish blue.

Magazine  (1868)  Page(s) plate 370.  
 
Clematis, Lady Bovill.
The Messrs. Jackman and Son, of Woking, who have been so successful in the hybridization of the Clematis, and whose varieties, Jackmanii, Rubella, Prince of Wales, rubro-violacea, have already attained so great a popularity, are still progressing in the same direction; and the very beautiful variety which we now figure shows that, with them, progress means improvement also, as we think this will prove to be one of the most attractive varieties yet raised; for, independently of the richness of its colouring, it will be seen that the width of the petal is greater than its length, which causes it to be very slightly cupped, resembling somewhat a fully expanded Tulip, while its colour, a greyish-blue, marks its distinctness from the other varieties.
There is probably no colour more wanted amongst bedding-out plants than those to which these plants belong; but, at first sight, it would seem as if a strong climbing plant would not be likely to be very serviceable for this purpose.  However, Mr. Jackman, at Woking, and Mr. Fleming, at Cliveden, have successfully shown that this was very easily effected, and the method is of a very simple character.  Large beds are those best adapted for them, and it is desirable, in order to have a good mass of bloom, to plant them pretty closely, say eighteen inches apart, and to peg them down in the same manner as Verbenas are treated; the bed should be well manured, and in the winter months a mulching will be very serviceable to them.  In this way a dense mass of bloom can be obtained of the rich hues of violet, for which Mr. Jackman's plants are distinguished.  Another excellent use that they may be put to is that of forming groups of tall plants on stakes; these should be placed tolerably close together, and a few strong plants placed beside them; these should be carefully tied to their supports as they grow, which they will rapidly do, and they will form very interesting subjects for the garden during the summer months.

Magazine  (Sep 1867)  Page(s) 208.  
 
Novelties, &c. at Flower Shows.
The Floral Committee meeting of August 6th, was famous for the production of Messrs. Jackman & Son's beautiful new varieties of Clematis. I scarcely know what can be more beautiful and useful in the way of hardy out-door climbers than these magnificent flowers. They exhibited a box of cut blooms, which contained the varieties they have already sent out— namely, Jackmani, rubella, and Prince of Wales; also blooms of lanuginosa and the pure white lanuginosa candida, and the following new kinds, all of which latter received first-class certificates: Lady Bovill, pale greyish violet, a very striking, somewhat cupped, and very broad-petaled flower; Mrs. Bateman, light mauve, tinted with purple; and Thomas Moore, a very large flower of a reddish purple hue, with ray-like centre of white staminal filaments. These are the more valuable as they extend the range of colours hitherto presented by these grand creepers.