THE JESSAMINE. 
Jasminuin officinale, 
ASMIN THE TROUBADOUR, 
who happily hails from Agen, 
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“content and poor,’ makes 
hoast of his name as allied to 
the “stem of Jesse.” For this 
plant is variously called Jas- 
mine, Jessamine, and Jesse: 
its Arabic name being Tswyi, 
and its Persian name Jdseuin. 
And it is a question of some 
interest whether, in the pro- 
phetic utterances, “ the stem,” 
“the root,’ “the rod,” and 
“the branch” of Jesse were 
associated with any plant that 
had the value of a symbol. 
It is not an idle question, as may be 
seen on reference to the tree of Jesse 
G in the east window at Dorchester, Oxon ; 
for however the artist may draw on his 
imagination in such a work, he is likely to be governed 
by an idea derived from a consideration of facts, and 
the jessamine, if admissible in such a case, is peculiarly 
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