DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF FLOWERING SHRUBS. A417 
from two to eight or nine feet, The elegance of the ev- 
ergreen foliage causes it to be much sought after to be 
mingled with bouquets in winter; and for this purpose it 
is brought from considerable distaneet, and carefully kept 
in cellars, sometimes for months.” The leaves are lance- 
shaped, an inch or more long, and one-third or half an 
inch wide. 
INDIGOFERA,.—Isvico Smrvs. 
(The name means a plant bearing Indigo.] 
Indigéfera decéra.—Indigo Shrub.—A handsome plant, 
growing four or five feet high, bearing spikes of small 
purple flowers; suitable for the shrubbery, free flowering, 
and of easy culture. 
~ JASMINUM.—Jasmie. 
(From the Arabic jasmin, (ysmyn).] : 
Jasminum officindle.—White Jasmine, is a native of 
the East Indies; it is an exceedingly elegant plant for 
training over a wall or arbor, and will bear the winter in 
the Middle States, with some protection. It is a delicate 
and fragrant shrub, not surpassed by any of the species, 
It is of this that Cowper speaks, in the following passage: 
“ The Jasmine, throwing wide her elegant sweets, 
The deep dark-green of whose unvarnished leaf 
Makes more conspicuous, and illumines more 
The bright profusion of her scattered stars.” 
In New Haven I have seen it in a garden, and was as- 
sured that it did not require protection there. The proper 
place for the Jasmines in Massachusetts, is the green-house. 
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