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borders, or even as low hedges in the 
flower-garden : in all these ways it 
may be used with great effect, and 
enjoyed when there is little else to 
enjoy. It will flower well in a north 
aspect and even in partial shade, and 
the finest use of it I ever saw was on 
a steep and shaded bank at Cannes, 
where the branches were layered year 
by year and spread amongst Myrtles 
and other wild undergrowth into a 
sheet of colour, where nothing else 
would flower in winter. Nothing is 
easier than this use of it upon banks, 
especially if planted with leafy shrubs, 
such as the evergreen Barberry [Be?^- 
bei^is Aquifoliuiri) to cover its scanti- 
ness ; it stands drought well, and colour 
is easily supplied in summer by allowing 
a few tuberous Tropaeolums or other 
light climbing plants to find support 
and shelter among the wand-like bran- 
ches. So far from displacing this old 
Winter Jasmine, its new form, y.primii- 
liiiinn^ comes as a good succession, 
equally useful, and flowering rather 
later. Though grown in France, where 
it was first introduced, I cannot find that 
the pretty pink-flushed kind, J. poly- 
a?ithu7n^ has yet been tried in England. | 
It would be interesting if only to see 
if it showed colour here, such delicate 
suffusions being sometimes lost with \ 
change of climate; but coming from ; 
Yunnan it should be hardy in parts of , 
our country, and welcome for its fra- | 
grance and distinct habit. Many of the 
dwarfer Jasmines are excellent as hang- 
ing or basket plants, and their easy 
increase from cuttings — in heat during 
spring for the greenhouse kinds, and \ 
in a cold frame in early autumn for the 
hardy ones — places them within the 
reach of all. And further, they may 
be pruned at will, provided it be done at 
the right time, — the summer flowerers 
in late spring, and the winter bloomers 
as soon as they are out of flower. 
It is interesting to note the means 
adopted by Nature to secure the fer- 
tility of the Jasmine flowers, spite of 
; their long, narrow tubes, the entrance 
to which is well-nigh closed by the 
projecting anthers, and self-pollination 
made even more unlikely by the habitual 
droop of the flower clusters. This need 
is met by a moth with a long proboscis, 
which passes its time flitting from flower 
to flower, brushing through the anthers, 
and diving to the depth of each corolla 
in order to exhaust the honey sac at 
its base, and meantime carrying to the 
pistils the fertilising grains of pollen 
which could not have reached them by 
any other means. Probably one reason 
for its fruiting so rarely with us, is 
the scarcity of this insect in Britain. 
Jasminum affine. — This name really belongs 
to a species from the Malay States, probably 
not in cultivation in this country, but is more 
often used for a large-flowering form of the 
Common Jasmine {J. officinale). 
TheCapeJasmine {J. angiilare). — A grace- 
ful and free-flowering greenhouse shrub from 
South Africa, thriving as a pillar plant, or 
under the roof. The leaves are cut into three 
leaflets, and the stems are angular ; flowers 
white, very fragrant, and long in the tube, 
hanging together as loose clusters in sprays of 
three. 
Golden Jasmine {J. aureum). — One of the 
many Himalayan species, with large, much- 
divided leaves and golden flowers. 
Bourbon Jasmine (J. auriculatum) . — A 
stove climbing shrub with downy leaves, either 
