ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GARDENING. 
Japanese Vine (Vitis Coignetia)—See Vitis. 
Japanese Wind-flower (Anemone japonica).—See Anemone. 
Japanese Wineberry (Rubus phericolosus).—See Rubus. 
Japanese Yew (Taxus cuspidata).—See Taxus. 
Japan Honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica).—See Lonicera. 
Japan Laurel (Aucuba japonica).—See Aucuba. 
Japan Lily (Lilium speciosum)—See Lilium. 
Jasione (Sheep’s-bit Scabious)—Ord. Campanulacee. Hardy 
annuals & herbaceous perennials. 
CULTURE OF ANNUAL SPECIES: Soil, ordinary. Position, well: 
drained sunny beds or borders. Sow seeds 1-16 in. deep in April or 
eens where plants are to grow. 
ULTURE OF PERENNIAL SPECIES: Soil, good light loam. Posi- 
tion, sunny well-drained borders. Plant, Oct. or March. Cut down 
flower stems Oct. Mulch with decayed manure in April. Propagate 
by seeds sown 1-16 in, deep in light soil outdoors, April to Sept.; divi- 
sion of roots, Oct- or Marah, 
ANNUAL SPEOIES: J. montana, lilac, blue, summer, 1 ft., Europe (Britain). 
PERENNIAL SPEOIES: J. perennis, biue, June, 18 in., W. Europe. 
Jasmine (Jasminum officinale)—See Jasminum. 
Jasmine Box (Phillyrea angustifolia)—See Phillyrea, 
Jasmine Nightshade (Solanum jasminoides).—See Solanum. 
Jasminum (Jasmine; Jessaminc).—Ord. Oleacew. Stove, green- 
house & hardy climbing & trailing flowering plants. Evergreen & deci- 
duous. First introduced 1548. 
CULTURE OF STOVE SPECIES: Compost, equal parts loam, peat 
& leaf-mould, with little sand. Position, well-drained pots, with shoots 
trained to trellis or up rafters, or in beds or borders with shoots trained 
up walls or rafters. Pot or plant, Feb. or March. Prune moderately, 
Feb. Water freely March to Oct., moderately Oct. to March. Temp., 
March to Sept. 65° to 75°; Sept. to March. 55° to 65°. ‘Syringe daily 
from March to Aug. 
CULTURE OF GREENHOUSE SPICIES: Compost as above. Posi- 
tion, beds or borders, with shoots trained up rafters or walls, or well- 
drained pots in light part of greenhouse Sept. to June, sunny place 
outdoors June to Sept. Pot or plant, Feb. to March. Prune slightly, 
Feb. Water freely March to Sept., moderately afterwards. Temp., 
Sept. to March 45° to 55°; March to June 55° to 65°. 
CULTURE OF HARDY SPECIES. Soil, ordinary rich. Position, 
well-drained borders at base of S. or S.W- walls. Plant, Oct., Nov., 
Feb. or March. Prune moderately after flowering, removing shoots 
that have flowered only. Propagate stove & greenhouse species by cut- 
tings of firm shoots, inserted in well-drained pots of sandy peat under 
bell-glass in temp. of 65° to 75°, March to Sept.; hardy species by cut- 
tings of shoots 3 to 6in. long inserted in well-drained pots of sandy 
soil in cold frame or in sheltered borders outdoors Sept. to Dec. ; layer- 
ing shoots near base of plants summer; variegated kinds by budding 
on common species July or Aug. ; 
STOVE SPECIES: J. gracillimum, white, winter, 4 ft., Borneo; Sambac, white, 
autumn, 6 ft., Trop. Asia. ; . 
GREENHOUSE SPECIES: J. grandiflorum, white, autumn, 10 ft., Malaya; 
primulinum, white, winter, 6 ft., China. ; ; 
HARDY SPECIES: J. humile, yellow, summer, 3 ft., Trop. Asia; humile revolu- 
tum, yellow, 15 ft.; floridum, yellow, summer, 10 ft., China; fruticans, yellow, 
summer, 10 ft., Orient; nudiflorum, yellow, winter, 10 ft., China and Japan; 
officinale (Jasmine), white, summer, 15 to 20 ft., Persia; officinale foliis-aureia, 
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