JASMINE. 93 
flower is exceedingly fragrant, and does not turn purple in decay 
as does the Arabian Jasmine, nor is it so fugacious. 
The Jasminum revolutum was imported from China in 1814; its 
flowers are yellow, prolific, and very fragrant. 
J. grandiflorum is very like J. officinale, but the branches are 
shorter and stouter, the flowers very much larger and reddish 
underneath; they form at the extremities of the branches, and 
are abundant during summer and part of autumn; they are per- 
sistent, and sometimes, after drying on the plant, they will re-open. 
This is the Spanish or Catalonian Jasmine ; it grows wild on the 
island of Tobago. By grafting it on to a two-year old plant of 
J. officinale an erect bush about 3 or 4 feet high can be cultivated, 
and so pruned as to require no supports. As generally grown in 
the South of France, the plant is reared from cuttings of the 
J. officinale, which are put into the earth in rows and trenched. 
Level ground is chosen ; if hill-side only is available, this is formed 
into a series of terraces. When strong enough, the young stem is 
grafted with shoots of the J. grandiflorum. The first year it is 
allowed to run wild. The second year the long slender branches 
are trained along light poles supported horizontally and running 
the whole length of the rows, the branches being twined and 
interlaced between them. At the approach of winter the plants 
are banked up with earth to half their height. The exposed parts 
then die off. When the last frost of winter is passed the earth is 
removed, and what remains of the plant is trimmed up for the 
coming season. It forms rapid growth, and when necessary water 
is supplied to the roots by means of the trenches above mentioned. 
The blossoms, which are the size of a shilling and intensely 
fragrant, are produced from July to the middle of October, but 
those of August and September yield the greatest amount of odour. 
The flowers are gathered as soon as possible after they open ; this 
occurs in the evening, and up to about August 15, early enough 
for the blossoms to be gathered the same day. They are delivered 
at the factories at once, where they are immediately put on to the 
glass “ chassis,” to be treated by the cold process of “enfleurage;” 
the work on them continuing very often till long after midnight. To 
obtain a good result, fifty successive enflowerings of the pommade 
are necessary. Later on in the year they are gathered in the early 
morning, directly the dew is off. The flower is gathered without 
any green part, as the corollas are monopetalous and the tube is 
