Hasmine--dMhite, 
Jasminun officinale, Narurar Orver: Fasminacee —Fasmine Family. 
N HITE JASMINE is a splendid shrub, climbing on supports 
fi "to a height of fifteen or twenty feet, and is much used in 
leat Europe for the covering of arbors and trellises. It is not 
ji * sufficiently hardy to endure the winters of our Northern 
os, States without the protection of a wall or other building to 
defend it from the fierce breath of the ungenial north wind. 
. Its flowers are beautiful and fragrant, and their praises have been beau- 
tifully sung by Lord Morpeth (afterward earl of Carlisle), who says: 
“T ask not, while I near thee dwell, 
Arabia’s spice or Syria’s rose; 
Thy bright festoons more freshly smell, 
Thy virgin white more freshly glows.” 
There is in the tropical parts of the United States a fine Jasmine with beautiful 
yellow blossoms, that is heavily laden with delightful perfume. It is now culti- 
vated in all warm climes, but was unknown in Europe until 1560, when it was 
introduced by the Spaniards from the East. 
Amiabitity. 
HE twining jessamine and blushing rose 
With lavish grace their morning scents disclose. 
—Prior. 
ND oft when from that scorching shore, Far, far away across the foam: 
In after years those odors came, The very jasmine-flower that crept 
He pictured his green cottage door, Round the thatched roof about his home 
The shady porch and window frame, Where she he loved then safely slept. 
—Miller. 
OW lovelily the jasmine flower Though faded, yet ’tis not forgot; 
Blooms far from man’s observing eyes; A rich perfume, time cannot sever, 
And having lived its little hour, Lingers in that unfriended spot, 
There withers,— there sequester’d dies! And decks the jasmine’s grave forever. fi 
i —Ryan. y 
be 175 oon 
