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Bona-nox, I. coccinea, L Learii, /. rubro-ccerulea, and /. 

 versicolor (better known as Mina lobata } which see) may be 

 grown in warm places as half-hardy annuals, being raised 

 under glass, hardened off, and planted out at the end of May. 

 Most of the preceding, with the addition of /. ternata and 

 7. Quamoclity merit cultivation for summer-flowering in sandy 

 loam in the warm greenhouse. The evergreen /. Hors/allice, 

 which produces its beautiful rose-crimson flowers in autumn 

 or early winter, is best propagated by layering. /. Briggsii 

 is a robust, evergreen climber which in a roomy tropical 

 house covers a large area, and flowers freely in midwinter ; 

 the flowers are rose-red in large clusters. 



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Hardy, greenhouse, or stove-shrubs, evergreen or de- 

 ciduous, mostly of climbing or trailing habit, with showy, 

 salver-shaped, white or yellow flowers, often very fragrant. 

 The most popular hardy species are the familiar yellow 

 winter-flowering /. nudiflorum, and the white summer- 

 flowering J. officinale, of which there is a variety known as 

 /. affine with larger flowers. The evergreen summer- 

 flowering J. primulinum, more recently introduced from 

 Yunnan, has yellow flowers 2 inches across, and is hardy 

 in southern gardens. J. revolutum (humile), Indian yellow 

 Jasmine, is sufficiently hardy for wall cultivation. They 

 like rich loam, and are easily increased by cuttings inserted 

 under glass in July. /. gracillimum, from Borneo, with 

 loose heads of fragrant white flowers, is a desirable warm 

 house climber. J. Sambac, var. flore pleno, bearing fragrant 

 white flowers produced at all seasons, is the best of the stove 

 kinds ; it should be planted out and trained up a pillar. 



