THE JASMINE. 



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By Layers. — In the autumn or early spring take 

 the last season's ripe wood 

 and lay it in the ground, or 

 set C-inch pots close to the 

 old plant, and draw the 

 shoot through the hole at 

 the bottom of the pot, and 

 cut a tongue as for Rose 

 layering; or scrape the bark 

 of the shoot on one side at 

 an eye (let this be about 

 the middle of the pot), and 

 fill it up with the same 

 kind of soil as used to sow 

 the seed in, employing a 

 little more sand. The shoot 

 layered must not be de- 

 tached from the old plant 

 for a year. 



By Cuttings. — Cuttings 

 may be struck, if taken off 

 in the autumn of the last 

 growth. They should be 

 7 or 8 inches long, and put into 7-inch pots, and set 

 or plunged in a mild heat. 



Fig. 19. — The Wistaria layered ; 

 b b, the ground line. 



The Jasmine [Jasminacecc). 



The Jasmine can scarcely be called a climber, but a 

 rambler like the Rose : nevertheless, it is used for the 

 same purpose as a true climber, and is as well suited 

 for covering walls, fronts of dwelling-houses, &c. 

 Jasminum officinale is the most useful, and is also a great 

 favourite among the fair sex. The agreeable fragrance 

 of this variety is seldom at fault, as is the case some- 

 times with the Hyacinth. In some localities the 

 Jasmine grows like a bramble for luxuriance. The 

 yellow-flowered sorts are very pretty, but not so sweet 

 as officinale. The propagation of the Jasmine is by 

 cuttings, by layers, and by grafting. 



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