314 SYLVA FLOUIFEllA. 



Their odour to themselves all day, 

 But, when the sun-light dies away, 

 Let the delicious secret out 

 To every breeze that roams about." 



T. Moore. 



" Then how serene ! when in your favourite room, 

 Gales from your jasmines soothe the evening gloom." 



Crabbe. 



From the tube of this eastern flower the 

 bee extracts its most exquisite honey ; and the 

 painted butterfly is never seen to more ad- 

 vantage, than when resting on the delicate 

 petals of the white jasmine. 



When the jasmine was first introduced into 

 France, it was thought to require all the heat 

 they could give it ; it next occupied a place in 

 the orangery, and at length exposed to the 

 open garden, where it thrives as freely as a 

 native plant, and still holds the situation of a 

 favourite with the Parisian belles, and is al- 

 ways the most saleable bouquet that les dames 

 de la halle bring to their gay market. 



We have often been astonished that our 

 cottagers, who possess little gardens, should 

 not cultivate flowers for sale, particularly the 

 jasmine, which is so hardy and so easily pro- 

 pagated; and with which they might even form 

 their fences, or suffer it to run over their 

 hedges, without taking away any part of their 

 potatoe ground. 



