Website/Catalog  (1926)  Page(s) 55.  
 
Stella, rose tendre.

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.
Stella, light violet, with a distinct bar of deep reddish plum colour...  1s. 6d

Book  (1906)  Page(s) 52.  
 
Principal garden varieties of Clematis:
Patens type. (Flower in May and June.)
Stella... Light violet, reddish plum bar.

Magazine  (1877)  Page(s) 157-8, pl. 2341-42.  Includes photo(s).
 
CLEMATIS PATENS (HYBR.) FAIR ROSAMOND et STELLA, JACKMAN
Ranunculaceæ § Clematidæ.
CHARACT. GENER.- Vide supra FLORE, vol. II, t. 175.
CHARACT. SPECIF. - Vide ibid, vol. VIII, p. 279
CHARACT, VARIET. - Ut infra, in textu.
Clematis patens, diversæ varietates : Vide supra FLORE, vol. VIII, p. 279; vol. IX, p. 265; vol. XX, pp. 203 et 205, vol. XI, p. 85; vol. XX, p. 19.

...Le deux nouveautés figurées ci-contre  contre rentrent dans le groupe des patens et sont à tiges volubiles; elles ont été gagnées par un habile horticulteur anglais, M. Geo. Jackman, de Woking (Surrey), et ont été mises dans le commerce en mai 1874.
La variété Stella est très-vigoureuse et l'une des plus belles qui existent; ses feuilles sont ternées, ovales-atténuées en pointe aiguë et d'un beau vert foncé; ses fleurs sont énormes (15 centimètres de diamètre); les pétales, au nombre de huit, sont larges, ovales-acuminés, légèrement ondulés sur les bords et se recouvrent parfaitement l'un l'autre dans les deux tiers de leur longueur, de façon à composer esthétiquement une fleur parfaite; le coloris est d'un beau blanc faiblement ombré d'incarnat tendre, et parcouru, dans la partie médiane de chaque pétale, par une bande formée de stries lie de vin sur fond lilacé; les étamines sont proéminentes et très-distinctes; ajoutons, comme bouquet, à ces éminents mérites, que la fleur exhale un doux arome combiné de Violette et de Primevère.

...Les horticulteurs sont donc excusables, contre rentrent dans le groupe des patens et sont à tiges volubiles; elles ont été gagnées par un habile horticulteur anglais, M. Geo. Jackman, de Woking (Surrey), et ont été mises dans le commerce en mai 1874.
La variété Stella est très-vigoureuse et l'une des plus belles qui existent; ses feuilles sont ternées, ovales-atténuées en ponte aiguë et d'un beau vert foncé; ses fleurs sont énormes (15 centimètres de diamètre); les pétales, au nombre de huit, sont larges, ovales-acuminés, légèrement ondulés sur les bords et se recouvrent parfaitement l'un l'autre dans les deux tiers de leur longueur, de façon à composer esthétiquement une fleur parfaite; le coloris est d'un beau blanc faiblement ombré d'incarnat tendre, et parcouru, dans la partie médiane de chaque pétale, par une bande formée de stries lie de vin sur fond lilacé; les étamines sont proéminentes et très-distinctes; ajoutons, comme bouquet, à ces éminents mérites, que la fleur exhale un doux arome combiné de Violette et de Primevère. [...]
Ces deux nouveautés sont de tout premier ordre et font grand honneur à leur obtenteur, M. Geo. Jackman, qui jouit d'une réputation méritée pour les perfectionnements qu'il a apportés aux formes et aux couleurs des anciennes Clématites.

Magazine  (1877)  Page(s) 260, 271.  
 
p. 260: Stella. Flor. and Pom., 1874, 169, tab.

p. 271: Clematis Stella (Jackman), s. des patens: violet.

Magazine  (Jul 1874)  Page(s) 169.  Includes photo(s).
 
The varieties now figured are Stella (fig 1), and Fair Rosamond (fig 2). They were both awarded First-class Certificates by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1873, and certainly both well deserved that mark of distinction. They belong, as already mentioned, to the patens section, distinguished by its spring-flowering habit and its ternate foliage, and they both have flowers which are very perceptibly fragrant. Stella, as will be seen from the figure, is an eight-sepaled variety, the sepals elliptic, oblong and stalkless, so that they form a full, solid-looking flower close up to the richly-coloured stamens. The colour is a deep bluish mauve, with a conspicuous bar of reddish plum-colour down the centre of each sepal; the filaments are white, and the anthers of a chocolate- purple, forming a conspicuous central tuft.

Magazine  (17 May 1873)  Page(s) 381.  
 
Spring-Flowering Clematises.
At a meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, on April 16, a group of new spring-blooming Clematises was staged by Messrs. Jackman, of Woking. There were seven finely grown and flowered plants, trained over oval wire frames, that were studded with large eight-petalled flowers of varying tints. Of these, four were deemed worthy of first-class certificates, viz: Fair Rosamond, silken white, tinted on the edges with pale soft mauve, and having purple stamens, flowers large in size, stout, well formed, and distinct; Stella, pale violet, paling off to lilac on the edges of the petals, and with a flame of pale puce along each, flowers large and of fine quality; The Queen, very pale mauve, with a slight pale green flame along each segment, large and very fine; and Vesta, pure white, with a fine primrose-green stripe along each petal, a beautiful white Clematis. The others were scarcely less inferior in size and beauty, and comprised Lady Stratford de Redcliffe, pale shining mauve, with a creamy flame along each petal, flowers of fine form, and vigorous habit. This variety will in all probability prove the precursor of a new race, as it has resulted from a cross between the spring-flowering C. Standishii and the summer-flowering C. Jackmanii, the principal change being in the habit, which is much freer and denser in growth than is usually seen in this section. There were also Maiden's Blush, pure white, with a flame of primrose-green on each segment, dark stamens, very fine; and Lord Derby, pale silken mauve, with a dash of cream along the centre of the petals, very delicate and fine. These will form valuable additions to this beautiful class of spring-blooming plants, many of which could be bloomed in the open air if planted in warm, sheltered, and sunny spots, and in large domains.

Magazine  (May 1873)  Page(s) 115.  
 
Notable New Plants and Flowers.
Clematis Stella [First-class Certificate]. — Another early-blooming variety; colour pale violet, lighter towards the edges of the segments, and with a slight flame of puce along each; very fine and distinct. — Messrs. G. Jackman & Son: R.H.S., April 16.

Magazine  (May 1872)  Page(s) 104.  
 
New Sweet-scented Large-flowered Clematis. [by Thomas Moore]
...This fine group of new scented varieties has been bred between C. Standishii, C. Fortunei, and some of the best forms of C. patens, by Messrs. George Jackman and Son, of Woking, and we have had the pleasure of leisurely inspecting and noting their qualities during the present season [...] The following are the new varieties in question:
C. Stella; a deep mauve, with a reddish plum-coloured bar in the centre of each sepal; also primrose-scented.

Book  (1872)  Page(s) 144-145.  
 
C. STELLA (Jackman).—This belongs to the patens group, and produced flowers for the first time in 1871. It is of free growth, and has ternate leaves, with broadly ovate acute or acuminate leaflets. The flowers, which measure about five inches across, are of a light violet or deep mauve, with a distinct bar in the centre of each sepal of a deep reddish plumcolour; the sepals are eight in number, elliptic, overlapping so as to make up a close well-formed flower, of which the centre is occupied by a large tuft of stamens, having white filaments and long chocolatepurple anthers. The well-defined band down the centre of each sepal, giving the appearance of a star, renders this variety very attractive and ornamental. The flowers are delicately scented with a perfume resembling that of the wild primrose.