JASMINUM. 



JUDAS TREE. 



kind of Marvel of Peru ; but it is 

 now discovered to be a kind of Con- 

 volvulus, or Ipomce'a. 



Ja'mbos or the Rose Apple. — 

 A kind of Eugenia, belonging to the 

 order JMyrtace^e. 



Jasmine. — See Jasmi^num. 



Jasmi'num. — Oleince. — The Jas- 

 mines are shrubs remarkable for their 

 fragrant flowers ; and the common 

 species, Jasminum oMcinale, is one 

 of our most vigorous-growing wall- 

 climbers, though a native of India. 

 There are several species hardy in 

 British gardens, but the greater num- 

 ber require the greenhouse or stove. 

 The principal hardy species is that 

 already mentioned. It well deserves 

 a place against the wall of a house, or 

 the piers of a verandah, which it will 

 cover in a very short time : or, if 

 planted against trellis-work, or 

 against the frame-work of a bower, 

 it will soon afford an agreeable shade, 

 and produce its long, graceful, deep- 

 green shoots in such quantities as, 

 after covering the bower, to hang 

 down to the ground all round it, 

 and require to be separated like a 

 curtain by a person entering. This 

 plant and the common Ivy, when 

 trained up a single post, with a 

 spreading umbrella top of frame- 

 work, form two of the finest objects 

 in small gardens by their pendant 

 branches, which not only hang down 

 from a height of from fifteen or 

 twenty feet to the ground, but trail 

 along it to a considerable distance. 

 Both plants may be called ever- 

 greens ; as, though, the Jasmine is 

 not so from its leaves, it is so from the 

 deep-green colour of its shoots. The 

 flowers are white, and very fragrant, 

 and yield an oil similar to that pro- 

 duced by /. grandifldrum. J. revo- 

 liitum is a native of Nepal, with 

 yellow blossoms, and thrives against 

 a wall, where it grows with great 

 vigour, covering a large space in a 



short time. /. nudlfiorum is a 

 very beautiful species introduced 

 from China by Mr. Fortune in 1844. 

 It has large yellow flowers, which 

 appear before the leaves, and it is 

 apparently hardy. It is a very 

 valuable plant, as it flowers in Jan- 

 uary, when so few plants are in 

 flower in the open air. The flowers, 

 however, have no fragrance. J. frit- 

 ticans and /. humile are upright 

 border shrubs, with yellow flowers, 

 deciduous leaves, and deep green 

 shoots. /. grandifldrum is a hot- 

 house shrub that bears a strong re- 

 semblance to the common Jasmine, 

 and yields the Oil of Jasmine of the 

 shops. /. odoratissimiun, from the 

 Azores, has yellow and very fragrant 

 flowers and brood evergreen leaves. 

 /. azoricitm, a native of Madeira, 

 requires the greenhouse, has white 

 flowers, and is very fragrant ; and /. 

 Sdmbac, a stove species, of which 

 there is a variety with double flowers, 

 is most fragrant during the night. 

 It is to this species that Moore al- 

 ludes in his beautiful lines on the 

 Jasmine. There are several other 

 species, but all are climbers, except 

 /. fniticans and /. humile, already 

 mentioned. They will all thrive in 

 any common garden soil, mixed with 

 leaf -mould ; and they may be all 

 propagated by cuttings planted in 

 sand, and covered -ndth a hand- 

 glass. 



Jerusalem SAOE.-See Phlo'mis. 



Jet d'eau. — A fountain, which 

 consists of a single column of water, 

 rising straight up out of the ground. 

 — See Fountains. 



Jonquil. — A kind of Narcissus. 



Judas Tree. — Cerds Siliquds- 

 trum. — A low tree, producing 

 numerous racemes of beautiful pink 

 flowers, from the old wood of the 

 trunk and branches. It grows freely 

 in any common garden-soil, but pre- 

 fers a warm and sheltered situation ; 



