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pofite, whofe lobes end in acute points. jafminum vuft 
gatius, flore albo. C. B, P. 397. The common white 
Jafmine. 
2. Jasminum ( Humile ) foliis al terms ternatis fimplici- 
bufque, ramis angulatis. Hort. Upfal. 5. Jafmine with 
trifoliate winged leaves placed alternate , and angular 
branches. Jafminum humile luteum. C. B. 397 - 
Dwarf yellow Jafmine , commonly called the Italian yellow 
Jafmine. 
3. Jasminum ( Fruticans ) foliis alternis ternatis fimpli- 
cibufque, ramis angulatis. Hort. Cliff. 5. Jafmine with 
trifoliate Jingle leaves placed alternate , and angular 
branches. Jafminum luteum, vulgo diftum baecife- 
rum. C. B. P. 398. The common yellow Jafmine. 
4. Jasminum ( Grandiflorum ) foliis oppofitis pinnatis, fo- 
liolis brevioribus obtufis. Jafmine with winged leaves 
placed oppofite , whofe lobes are fhorter and obtufe. Jaf- 
minum humilis, magno flore. C. B. P. 398. The Spa- 
nifh white , or Catalonian Jafmine with a larger flower. 
5. Jasminum {Odoratiflimum ) foliis alternis ternatis, fo- 
liolis ovatis, ramis teretibus. Jafmine with trifoliate 
leaves placed alternate , whofe lobes are oval , and ' taper 
branches. Jafminum Indicum flavum odoratiflimum. 
Fer. Flor. The fweet-fcented yellow Indian Jafmine. 
6 . Jasminum ( Azoricum ) foliis oppofitis ternatis, folio- 
lis cordato-acuminatis. Jafmine with trifoliate leaves 
placed oppofite , whofe lobes are heart-fhaped and pointed. 
Jafminum Azoricum trifoliatum, flore albo, odora- 
tiflimum. Hort. Amft. The three-leaved Azorian Jaf- 
mine , with very fweet white flowers , commonly called the 
Ivy-leaved Jafinme. 
7. Jasminum ( Capenfe ) foliis lanceolatis oppofitis inte- 
gerrimis, floribus triandris. Jafmine with fpear-Jhaped 
entire leaves placed oppofite , and flowers with three fta- 
mina. 
The firfb fort is the common white Jafmine, which is 
a plant fo generally known as to need no defcrip- 
tion. This grows naturally at Malabar, and in fe- 
veral parts of India, yet has been long inured to our 
climate, fo as to thrive and flower extremely well, but 
never produces any fruit in England ; this hath weak 
trailing branches, fo requires the affiftance of a wall 
or pale to fupport them. It is eafily propagated by 
laying down the branches, which will take root in one 
year, and may then be cut from the old plant, and 
planted where they are defigned to remain : it may al- 
fo be propagated by cuttings, which fhould be planted 
early in the autumn, and if the winter fhould prove 
fevere, the furface of the ground between them 
fhould be covered with tan, fea-coal afhes, or faw-duft, 
which will prevent the froft from penetrating deep in- 
to the ground, and thereby preferve the cuttings •, or 
where thefe are wanting, fome Peas-haulm, or other 
light covering fhould be laid over the cuttings in hard 
froft •, but thefe muft be removed when the weather 
is mild, for they will keep off the air and occaflon 
damps, which often deftroy them. 
When thefe plants are removed, they fhould be 
planted where they are defigned to be continued, 
which fhould be either againft fome wall, pale, or 
other fence, where the flexible branches may be fup- 
ported ; for although it is fometimes planted as a 
ftandard, and formed into a head, yet it will be very 
difficult to keep it in any handfome order ; or if you 
do, you muft cut off all the flowering branches ; for 
the flowers are always produced at the extremity of 
the fame year’s fhoots, which, if fhortened before the 
flowers are blown, will entirely deprive the trees of 
flowers. Thefe plants fhould be permitted to grow 
rude in the fummer, for the reafon before given ; nor 
fhould you prune and nail them until the middle or 
latter end of March, when the frofty weather is paft ; 
for if it fhould prove lharp frofty weather after their 
rude branches are pruned off, and the ftrong ones 
are expofed thereto, they are very often deftroyed ; 
and this plant being very backward in fhooting, 
there will be no danger of hurting them by late 
pruning. 
There are two varieties of this with variegated leaves, 
one with white, and the other yellow ftripes, but the 
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latter, is the moft common. : thefe are propagated by 
budding them on the plain Jafmine, and it' often hap- 
pens, that the buds do not take, but yet they have 
communicated their gilded miafma to the plants *, 
fo that in a fhort time after, many of the branches both 
above, and below the places where the buds have 
been inferted have been thoroughly tinctured ;■ and 
the following year I have often found very diftant 
branches, which had no other communication with 
thole which were budded than by the root, have been 
as compleatly tinged as any of the nearer branches, 
fo that the juices muft have defeended into the root. 
The two ftriped forts fhould be planted in a warm 
fltuation, efpecially the white ftriped ; for they are 
much more tender than the plain, and are very fub- 
je£t to be deftroyed by great frofts, if they are ex- 
pofed thereto ; therefore the white ftriped fhould be 
planted to a fouth or fouth-weft afpeef, and in very 
fevere winters their branches fhould be covered with 
mats or ftraw, to prevent their being killed : the 
yellow ftriped is not fo tender, fo may be planted 
againft walls to eaft or weft afpecls ; but thefe plants 
with variegated leaves, are not fo much in efteem as 
formerly. 
The fecond fort is frequently called Italian yellow Jaf- 
mine by the gardeners, the plants being annually 
brought from thence by thofe who come" over with 
Orange-trees. Thefe plants are generally grafted upon 
the common yellow Jafmine flocks, fo that if the craft 
decays, the plants are of no value. This fort is 
fomewhat tenderer than the common, yet it will en- 
dure the cold of our ordinary winters, if it is planted 
in a warm fltuation. The flowers of this kind are ' 
generally larger than thofe of the common yellow 
fort, but have very little feent, and are feldom pro- 
duced fo early in the feafon. It may be propagated by 
laying down the tender branches, as was directed for 
the common white fort”; or by budding or inarching it 
upon the common yellow Jafmine, the latter of which 
is preferable, as making the plants hardier than thofe 
which are obtained from layers : they fhould be plant- 
ed againft a warm wall, and in very fevere winters 
will require to be flickered with mats, or fome other 
covering, otherwife they are fubjeft to be deftroyed. 
The manner of drefling and pruning being the fame 
as was directed for the white Jafmine, I fhall not re- 
peat it. 
The third fort was formerly more cultivated in the 
gardens than at prefent, for as the flowers have no 
lcent, fo few perlons regard them. This hath weak 
angular branches which require fupport, and will rife 
to the height of eight or ten feet, if planted againft 
a wall or pale ; but the plants do often produce a 
great number of fuckers from their roots, whereby 
they become troublefome in the borders of the plea- 
fure-garden ; and as they cannot be kept in any order 
as ftandards, fo there are few of the plants at prefent 
introduced into gardens. It is eaflly propagated by 
fuckers or layers. 
The fourth fort grows naturally in India, and alfo 
in the ifland of Tobago, where the woods are full of 
it ; the late Mr. Robert Millar fent me over a great 
quantity of it from thence. This hath much ftronger 
branches than the common white fort j the leaves are 
winged, and are compofed of three pair of fhort obtufe 
lobes, terminated by an odd one, ending in an acute 
point ; thefe lobes are placed clofer than thofe of the , 
common Jafmine, and are of a lighter green; the 
flowers come out from the wings of the ftalks, {land- 
ing on foot-ftalks which are two inches long, each 
fuftaining three or four flowers, which are of a blufh 
red on their outflde, but white within ; the tube of 
the flower is longer, the fegments are obtufe, twitted 
at the mouth of the tube, and are of a much thicker 
texture than thofe of the common fort, fo that there 
is no doubt of its being a diftinft fpecies : the reafon 
for Dr. Linnaeus’s fuppoflng it to be fo, was by mif- 
take ; for as thefe plants are generally grafted upon 
flocks of the common jafmine, fo there are' always 
fhoots coming out from the flocks of that fort, which, 
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