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best in a gentle forcing heat; it is rather subject i 
to white scale, but should this get hold, a free 
pruning will do no harm. It grows well in 
rough loam and peat, and is easily increased 
from suckers, cuttings of half ripened shoots, 
or root cuttings. Travellers in Borneo are 
much impressed by its beauty during the wet 
season, when the woods are everywhere 
lighted by its flowers, which are much used 
for garlands and for personal adornment by 
the native women ; in the dry season the 
same bushes hang limp and mournful, or 
are browsed to the bare stumps by cattle, 
yet seem none the worse for this drastic 
pruning. 
Spanish Jasmine [y. grandijiorum). — 
Though long known as the Spanish or Cata- 
lonian Jasmine, this plant belongs to India, 
whence it was brought by the early Portu- 
guese, spreading to other parts of Europe, 
where it has long been the object of an 
important industry. Its large flowers and fine 
fragrance have made it a favourite all over 
the world, and it is now as much at home as 
a beautiful undergrowth in the West Indian 
forests as in Asia. While not unlike the 
common Jasmine its flowers and leaves are 
as large again, the blossoms with more sub- 
stance and often suffused with pale pink on 
the outside ; its habit of growth also is looser, 
and the plant less hardy and free. Its tender- 
ness is increased by grafting upon "J. officinale^ 
the plants raised from layers or cuttings being 
far more enduring. Though it will stand a 
good many degrees of frost upon a sheltered 
wall, in the colder parts of our country it is 
only safe under glass, where, planted out, it 
flowers through a long season and is useful 
for cutting, though, as with most Jasmines, the 
flowers drop quickly. It also grows well in 
pots, pinched into bush form and flowered 
in gentle heat ; grafted standard-high on the 
common kind, it is a favourite market plant 
upon the Continent, flowering well when well 
ripened in the open during summer. Grown 
upon walls in the warmer parts of the country 
it often does well through a series of mild years, 
when plants of 1 5 to 20 feet high are not un- 
common ; but it is liable to be cut down in 
hard winters, and the flowering season is short 
in the open, being at its best in August and 
September. It will-grow in almost any moist, 
fertile soil, but too much wet causes disease ; 
pot plants should never be overpotted. Prune 
in spring before growth is made, when the 
shoots may be cut in to three or four eyes. In 
the south of Europe it is much grown for the 
essential oil yielded by its flowers and highly 
esteemed for centuries past ; in our own 
country the plant has been cultivated since 
1629. There are forms with double and semi- 
double flowers, but as a rule they open badly. 
Another plant which in gardens often goes by 
the name of y. grandijiorum is really "J. affine, 
the large-flowered form of the Common 
Jasmine. 
The Spanish Jasmine. 
The Odd-Leaved Jasmine {J. heterophyl- 
I lum). — A strong-growing kind from Nepaul, 
! which often reaches the size of a small ever- 
green tree, with long, rambling branches and 
rugged brown bark. Its leaves are large, thick, 
and mostly uncut, with a waved surface ; 
sometimes however they mingle with leaves 
cut into three leaflets — whence its name of 
! " various-leaved." It is fairly hardy upon walls 
in this country, an old plant introduced in 
1820 having lived thus for many years in 
the garden of the Royal Horticultural Society 
! at Chiswick, freely showing its sweet and 
1 brilliant yellow flowers in summer. 
