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it will probably grow about five feet high. It is not an 

 evergreen, consequently the flowers have no backing 

 save those of the stems, but these are of a rich dark 

 green. The leaves come in spring. The specific name 

 derives from the fact that the plant blooms when devoid 

 of leaves. 



The winter Jasmine is a good town plant, and will 

 grow in ordinary soil ; but, like most other things, it 

 appreciates fertile ground. Beyond tying or nailing it 

 to its support it will require very little treatment, as 

 much pruning is objectionable. It suffices to cut out 

 some of the older wood when the plant gets crowded. 



Several other species of Jasmine are pretty and 

 sweet, notably grandiflorum, which is larger than the 

 white Jasmine ; odoratissimum, very fragrant ; gracil- 

 limum, white, illustrated in the Botanical Magazine, 

 t. 6559 ; revolutum, yellow (Botanical Magazine, t. 1731) ; 

 and Sambac, white flowers followed by black berries, 

 the species from which oil of Jasmine is obtained : but 

 these are greenhouse plants. The last three are ever- 

 greens. 



It is as a garden plant that the sweet Jessamine 

 appeals to most of us, and we ought to grow it better 

 than we often do, thereby insuring it the place in our 

 gardens which it now seems doomed to lose. 



