‘the Plant: 
3 AZORIAN JASMINE. 
This is a very elegant Shrub, and worthy a | 
" Place in every Colleétion, for the Regularity 
' and Beauty of its Leaf, and the Fragrance of 
its Bloom. : 
We fee it in general bearing only a few ftrag- 
oling Flowers; but that is not the Nature « 
it ‘arifes from its ill underftood Cul- 
ture. We fhall from Experience direct the Gar- 
dener how to make it thew to much more Ad- 
vantage. 
It is called by the Wikies Tapdane d Jafmine, 
- from its fingle Leaves fomewhat refembling the 
undivided Leaves of Ivy; but this is a very ill 
imagined Title. 
The common Writers call it Fa/minum Azori- 
cum trifoliatum, from its Place of Growth, the 
Azores Tflands, and from its Leaves srowing three 
on each Foot-ftalk. 
Its proper Name is, Ya/minum foliis jae: tis | 
ternatis: Fafimine with Leaves placed three on a 
Foot-ftalk. : 
It is a {preading Shrub, not very reoular in 
Growth, but in all the Wildnefs. far from un- 
handfome. The Trunk is covered with a pale 
grey Bark’; the young Shoots are foft, tender, 
flexible and green. pietisetdisicid 
‘The Leaves are placed shar in, threes, and 
thefe again in Pairs upon the Stalks: one Foot- 
ftalk carries three Leaves ; and thefe Foot-ftalks 
rife oppofite to one another. 
The fingle Leaves are large, of an oval Shape, 
and of a deep green: they are broadeft at the 
Bate, and, {maller all the Way to a Point. : 
The Flowers are difpofed in Tufts. at the Ex- 
tremities of the Branches, each Foot-ftalk {plitting 
naturally, and fupporting two of them, and the 
~whole Tuft amounting to eight or nine Pair 
when in full Glory. . | 
‘Each Flower is large and white, and much re- 
fembles that of the common Jafmine, which it 
exceeds greatly in Fragrance. 
The Place the Plant holds in this Linnaan. 
Syftem, : will be eafily diftinguithed by an In- 
This is formed, as in 
fpection of the Flower. 
the common Jafmine, of a fingle Petal, divided 
into five narrow Segments, and in the Centre 
rife two fhort Filaments, crowned with their pro- 
per Buttons, but buried in the tubular Part of 
the Flower. The Fruit is a {mall Berry. 
The two Filaments fhew that it belongs, as 
the common Jafmine, and that large flowered 
Kind we have defcribed° before, to the fecond 
—Clafs, the Diandria, thofe which have only two 
male Parts in the Flower; and the Style being 
fingle, fhews alfo itis of the firft Seétion. 
Its native Place, we have obferved, is the Azores | 
Iflands; and it is there found in damp Ground. — 
This indicates its Culture. 
It will require a rich Earth like that naturally, 
and moft ufually found near Waters: and it will 
need fome Moifture, and a Defence from ex- 
tream Cold. 
A COMPLEAT BODY 
then let it rife again : 
The beft Way of septs it is by Layers, 
and upon the Principles already delivered, let it 
be thus done. 
Chufe for the Mother Plant one that is vigo- 
rous and healthy ; and having fixed, we will Lays 
upon. three Branches that are fit for laying, raife 
three Treffels or Frames of any Kind under 
| them, able to.bear Pots of Earth. 
Mix together three Buthels of ich Mould, 
taken from under the Turf in a. fertile Meadow : 
add to it one Buhhel of Earth from the Bottom of | 
a Wood-Pile, and half aButhel of oldCow-Dung. 
Blend all thefe well together ; and when they 
have lain fome Time, fill with this Compoit 
three large Pots. 
Set sets upon one of the Treffels, and. let. it 
be of fuch a Height, as that. ‘the Branch. in- 
tended. to be laid, will come down to.it without 
much Force. | | 
Bring down the Branch thus intended to the 
‘firft Pot ; open the Earth fix, Inches deep, and. 
lay it in. 
Obferve where the. Part to ate covered i is, and 
tie a Piece of Iron Wire 
juft above, and cut with a harp Knife three 
long Slits in the Part that will lie cover’d. 
After this pierce half a dozen Holes through, 
and then wet it with a ftrong Brine. 
This done, lay it in the open Part of the 
Earth, and fatten it fecurely with Pegs, or by 
tying: cover it up five Inches with the Earth, 
and give it a gentle Watering. | 
The beft Seafon of laying it is in the Be- 
ginning of Auguft, for this is an Ever-green 5 
and that is the proper Time for all fuch.. 
It is thus to. be managed with every Branch 
that is laid, and the Top of each fhould'temain © 
about eight Inches out of the Ground. 
From time to time the Earth mutt be gently 
watered ; and the next Seafon the Branches are 
to be cut off from the old Plant, and the whole 
Earth of the Pot fhaken out in a Lump with 
the Layer. 
It is then to be placed in another Pot with 
more Earth of the fame Kind; and the Shoot is 
to be kept in the Middle of the Pot.. 
It will thus require no more Care than is be- 
{towed on common Plants of the fame Kind, 
and will grow to be a handfome Shrub. 
Thefe Pots muft be fet out in the latter End of 
May, and taken into the Greenhoufe in Auguf ; 
and every Year the Earth muft be cleared away 
to.a good Depth about the Roots, and frefh put 
in the Place of it. : 
With this Care, thisCompoft, and moderate 
but. frequent Waterings toward the Seafon of 
their flowering : they wil produce very large 
Bunches of F terkars of a furprifing Sweetnefs. 
A Layer or two fhould be placed under a fourth 
Wall in the natural Earth, at the fame Time 
that others are fet in Pots. 
Thefe will ftand fome Winters, though very 
fevere 
