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year till March of the next. Its bright yellow flowers at such seasons 

 are most lovely. It is well to plant it in a protected situation, to 

 preserve it against excessive frost, but no garden can possibly do with- 

 out it. We grow it under the protection of our summer-houses. 



The common White Jasmine (fig. 586) exhales perhaps the most 



FIG. 585. Jasminum nj_iif!o;um. 



FIG. 587. Cissus discolor 



FIG. 586. White Jasmine. 



exquisite of odours. It grows pretty well with me, but not so well as 

 it does in other places. We have other jasmines in the fernery, of 



which y. Sambac is a desirable variety, 

 as also is J. grandiflorum. We have 

 likewise a variety with double blossoms 

 as big as half-a-crown, and other species. 

 All are beautiful and choice plants for 

 the garden. 



In our glass fernery the Cissus discolor 

 (fig. 587) surprises us with the beauty of 

 its leaves. It is one of the most beauti- 

 ful of all variegated-leaved plants, and in 

 autumn and early winter is lovely. 



FIG. 5 88.-Cobceascandens variegata. ^ ^^ scan dcnS Variegata (fig. 5^8) 



is a most elegant plant, as it hangs down from the roof of the fernery. 

 However, it was found to be too exacting with respect to the space 

 it required, and we were obliged to turn it out of the house. 



When a blank space has to be covered in a glass house, we may 



