OF FOREST-TREES. 



85 



J AS 3£ I NEK 



This, especially the Spanish larger flower, far exceeds all the other CHAP, 

 sweet-smelling shrubs for the use of the perfumer, on account of its ^-^ir 

 agreeable odour. The common White and Yellow will flower plenti- 

 fully in our groves, and climb about the trees, being as hardy as any 

 of our P'ericlimena and Honey-suckles. 



How it is increased by submersion and layers, every gardener skills ; 

 and were it as much employed for nosegays, &c. with us, as it is in Italy 

 and France, they might make money enough of the flowers ; one sorry 

 tree in Paris, where they abound, has been worth to a poor woman near 

 a pistole a-year. 



There is no small curiosity and address in obtaining the oil, or essence, 

 as we call it, of this delicate and evanid flower, which I leave to the 

 chymist and the ladies, who are worthy the secret. 



2. SYRINGA ('PERjrc^^ foliis lanceolatis. Lin. Sp. PI. 11. Syringa with spear-shaped 

 leaves. Commonly called Persian jasmine. 



Syringa is of the class and order Diandria Monogynia^ 



Both these kinds, together with their varieties, are best propagated by suckers and layers. 

 The first sort may be raised from seeds, which ripen in autumn. 



s Of the JASMINE there are six species ; but there are only three adapted to our hardy 

 plantations : 



1. JASMINUM (officinale) foliis oppositis pinnatls. Lin. Sp. PI. 9. Jasminum vul- 

 gatius, flore albo. C. B. The common white jasmine. 



This plant, though so common and hardy with us, is a native of India. 



2. JASMINUM (fruticans) foliis alternis ternatis simplicibusque, ramis angulatis. 

 Lin. Sp. PI. 9' The shrubby yellow jasmine. 



It grows common in the southern parts of Europe, and is able to resist the severity of 

 our climate. 



3. JASMINUM (^fff/Ar/is J foliis alternis ternatis pinnatisque, ramis angulatis. Lin. Sp. 

 PI. 9. Jasminum humile luteum. Bauh. Pin. 397. The dwarf yellow jasmine. 



It grows common in Italy, and is able to resist the frosts of our climate. 



Jasmine is of the class and order Diandria Monogynia. 

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