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the illustration nor in looking at the plant in the garden 

 should we describe it as a striking rambler. At its best 

 it is a modest plant, with no size of bloom or brilliance 

 of colour to recommend it. But when well managed 

 it is pretty, and its perfume is all-convincing. We 

 could almost tolerate ugliness in a flower so long as 

 it possessed the delicious odour of the old white Jasmine. 

 Because of this odour we put the plant on our summer- 

 houses, or in other places where we walk or sit 

 frequently, so that we may have it near us for at least 

 a part of every day. 



In spite of its odour, the Jasmine has probably 

 receded in public favour during recent years, having 

 given place to the pushful Mountain Clematis. The 

 latter is not scented, but it is a vigorous grower, takes 

 care of itself when once started, flowers abundantly, 

 and has a generally bright, happy, cheerful appearance. 

 The Jasmine wants rather more attention, and attention 

 is just what it does not get, as a rule. It is put into 

 poor soil, never pruned, and rarely watered. The 

 result is that it is often shabby and droopy. Those 

 who set out to grow it should give it a fair chance 

 of showing what is in it. They should give it a bushel 

 of prepared soil, and plant it early in spring, before the 

 hot weather has come on. If it is growing on a hot 

 wall, they should give it a good soaking of water once 

 a week or oftener, and a pailful of liquid manure now 

 and then. A douche with a syringe on the evenings of 

 hot days will freshen it. With respect to pruning, while 

 no regular course of cutting back or spurring in is 

 necessary, the plant should not be allowed to become 

 a tangle of weak shoots. Where there is much crossing 

 and crowding, the pruning knife should be brought into 

 play, and a vigorous thinning resorted to. 



