614 JASMINUM. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



JUGLAXS. 



Seed in autumn or spring. A native 

 plant. 



JASMINUM (Jasmine}. Beautiful 

 shrubs, the hardy ones among the best 

 introduced to our country, and of very wide 

 and precious use. 



J. fruticans (Shrubby Jasmine] . This 

 is a wiry-looking shrub from Southern 

 Europe and the 

 Mediterranean 

 region; hardy in 

 England, and 

 though not so 

 important as 

 some of the free- 

 growing kinds, 

 is worth a place 

 on dry banks. It 

 has numerous 

 small yellow 

 flowers. 



J. humile (In- 

 dian Yellow 

 Jasmin e). A 

 handsome kind, 

 being quite 

 hardy for wall 

 culture in all parts ; with evergreen foliage, 

 which adds to its value. It flowers freely, 

 and its yellow bloom amidst the deep green 

 foliage is welcome in summer and autumn. 

 Being an Indian plant it should have a 

 warm aspect and good warm soil. (Syn. 

 J. revolutum and/, wallichianum.} 



J. nudiflorum (Winter Jasmine). k 

 lovely Chinese bush which is happyenough 

 in our northern climate to flower very often 

 in the depth of winter, clustering round 

 cottage walls and shelters, and often very 

 lovely when not too tightly trained. In wet 



Jasminum fruticans. 



Jasminum humile. 



years it will be noticed increasing as freely 

 as twitch at the points of the shoots. It 

 should be planted in different aspects so as 

 to prolong the bloom, planting each side of 

 a house or cottage, for example. The sun 

 coming out after hard frost may destroy 



Jasminum officinale. 



the bloom on one side, and it may escape 

 on the other. 



J. officinale ( White Jasmine}. The old 

 white Jasmine of our gardens, one of the 

 most charming shrubs ever introduced for 

 walls and warm banks ; it is best on warm 

 and sandy soils and often thrives in the 

 heart of our cities. 



The white Jasmine should be planted in 

 every garden against a wall, or used for 

 trailing overarbours. It is one of the best of 

 all climbing shrubs 

 on account of its 

 hardiness and rapid 

 growth in almost 

 any soil. There are 

 several varieties of 

 it, the best being/. 

 affine, with flowers 

 larger than those of 

 the ordinary kind. 

 There is a varie- 

 gated-leaved kind, 

 not of much value, 

 and one with golden 

 foliage, and there 

 is a rare double- 

 flowered form. It is almost evergreen, 

 except in exposed places. 



It is a native of .Persia and the north 

 western mountains of India, but 

 naturalised here and there in Southern 

 Europe. 



JEFFERSONIA(7W;;-/m/).- An in- 

 teresting dwarf plant, allied to the Blood- 

 root,/, diphylla being from 6 to 10 in. high, 

 the flowers white, about I in. across, in early 

 spring. It is a good plant for peaty and 

 somewhat shady spots on the rock-garden, 

 and for the margins of beds of dwarf 

 American plants. Seed should be sown 

 in sandy soil as soon as gathered, but 

 careful division of the root in winter 

 is the best way to increase the plant. 

 A native of rich shady woods in N. 

 America. 



JUGLANS (Walnut}. Stately trees of 

 northern and eastern regions, among them 

 being our noble European Walnut. A 

 tree as well known to the ancients as to 

 ourselves, and useful and beautiful in all 

 ways. 



Our Walnut (/. regia\ like many other 

 fruit trees, is cultivated so long that no one is 

 clear as to its origin, but it is a tree of wide 

 distribution in the east, and in countries 

 where it is much cultivated has many 

 varieties, differing very much in size and in 

 the tenderness of their shells and even in 

 earliness. Though the Walnut is not so 

 much grown in Britain as in countries of 

 Southern Europe, it is very happy in some 

 of our southern, western and eastern 



