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brought over amongft the fingle •, the flowers of this 
kind have only two rows of leaves, fo that it is ra- 
ther cultivated for itscuriofity, than for any extraordi- 
nary beauty in the flowers. This may be propagated 
by budding it upon the common white Jafmine, as 
hath been directed for the fingle, and muft be treated 
in the fame manner. 
The fifth fort grows naturally in India ; this rifes 
with an upright woody ftalk eight or ten feet high, 
covered with a brown bark, fending out feveral 
branches which want no fupport ; thefe are clofely 
garnifhed with trifoliate leaves of a lucid green, which 
are placed alternate on the branches ; the two fide 
lobes of thefe leaves which grow oppofite, are' much 
lefs than the end one ; they are oval and entire, con- 
tinuing green all the year : the flowers are produced 
at the end of the fhoots in bunches, which have long 
flender tubes, and are divided at the top into five ob- 
tufe fegments which fpread open ; thefe flowers are of 
a bright yellow, and have a moft grateful odour. 
They come out in July, Auguft, September, and 
Odober, and fometimes continue to the end of No- 
vember ; they are frequently fucceeded by oblong 
oval berries, which turn black when ripe, and have 
each two feeds. 
This fort of jafmine is propagated either by feeds, or 
laying down the tender branches ; if you would pro- 
pagate them by feeds, which they fometimes produce 
in England, you Ihould make a moderate hot-bed in 
the fpring, into which you fhould plunge fome fmall 
pots, filled with frelh light earth ; and in a day or two 
after, when you find the earth in the pots warm, you 
muft put your feeds therein •, about four in each pot 
will be fufficient, covering them about an inch thick 
with the fame light earth, and obferve to refrelh the 
pots with water as often as you fhall perceive the 
earth dry ; but do not give them too much at each 
time, which would be apt to rot the feeds. 
In about fix or eight weeks after fowing, the plants 
will appear above ground, at which time it will be 
neceffary to remove the pots into another frelh hot- 
bed, of a moderate temperature, in order to bring 
the plants forward •, you muft alfo be careful to water 
them as often as is neceffary, and in the great heat of 
the day the glaffes Ihould be tilted pretty high, and 
lhaded with mats, to prevent the plants from being 
fcorched with heat. About the middle of May you 
Ihould begin to harden them to the open air, by 
taking off the glaffes when the weather is warm ; but 
this muft be done cautioufly, for you Ihould not ex- 
pofe them to the open fun in a very hot day at firft, 
which would greatly injure them ; but rather take off 
the glaffes in warm cloudy weather at firft, or in gentle 
fhowers of rain, and fo by degrees inure them to bear 
the fun ; and in June you Ihould take the pots out of 
the hot-bed, and carry them to fome well Iheltered 
Tituation, where they may remain until the beginning 
of October ; at which time they muft be carried into 
the green-houfe, obferving to place them where they 
may enjoy as much free air as polfible when the 
windows are opened, as alfo to be clear from the 
branches of other plants. 
During the winter feafon they will require to be often 
watered, but you muft be careful not to give them 
too much at each time •, and in March you muft re- 
move thefe plants each into a feparate pot, being 
careful not to take the earth from their roots •, and if 
at this time you plunge them into a frelh moderate 
hot-bed, it will greatly facilitate their rooting again, 
and be of great fervice to the plants ; but when they 
are rooted, you muft give them a great deal of air •, 
for if you draw them too much, they will become 
weak in their ferns, and incapable to fupport their 
•heads, which is a great defed in thefe trees. 
You muft alfo 'harden them to the open air, into 
which they ihould be removed about the middle of 
May, obferving, as was belore directed, to place 
them in a fituation that is defended from ftrong winds, 
which are injurious to thefe plants, elpecially while 
they are young. In winter houfe them as before, and 
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continue the fame care, with which they will thrive 
very faft, and produce annually great quantities of 
flowers. 
Thefe plants are pretty hardy, and will require no 
other care in winter, than only to defend them from 
hard frofts ; nor do I know whether they would not 
live in the open air, if planted againft a warm wall, 
which is what Ihould be tried by planting fome againft 
a wall for that purpofe j and I think we have little 
reafon to doubt of the fuccefs, fince they are much 
hardier than the Span iff ; but there is this difference 
between them, viz. thefe plants have large, thick. 
Evergreen leaves, fo that if they were covered with 
mats, as was directed for the Spanifti Jafmine, the 
leaves would rot and decay the moots ; but as thefe 
will only require to be covered in extreme froft, fo if 
their roots are well mulched, and a mat or two loofely 
hung over them in ordinary frofts, it will be fufficient; 
and thefe mats being either rolled up, or taken quite 
off in the day, there will be no great danger of their 
being hurt, which only can proceed from being too 
long clofe covered. 
In the fpring thefe fhould be pruned, when you 
fhould cut off all decayed branches ; but you muft 
not fnorten any of the other branches, as was direded 
for the Spanifti fort, for the flowers of this kind are 
produced only at the extremity of the branches, which, 
if fhortened, they would be cut off; and thefe growing 
of a more ligneous fubftance than the other, will not 
produce fhoots ftrong enough to flower the fame year. 
If you would propagate this plant from layers, the 
fhoots fhould be laid down in March ; and if you give 
them a little cut at the joint, as is pradifed in laying 
of Carnations, it will promote their rooting: you 
fhould always obferve to refreffl them often with water, 
when the weather is dry ; which, if carefully attended 
to, the plants will be rooted by the fucceeding fpring, 
fit to be tranfplanted, when they muft be planted in 
pots filled with light earth, and managed as was be- 
fore direded for the feedling plants. 
This fort is frequently propagated, by inarching the 
young fhoots into flocks of the common yellow Jaf- 
mine, but the plants fo raifed do not grow fo ftrong 
as thofe which are upon their own flock ; befides, the 
common yellow Jafmine is very apt to fend out a 
great number of fuckers from the root, which renders 
the plants unfightly ; and if thefe fuckers are not con- 
ftantly taken off as they are produced, they will rob 
the plants of their nourifhment. 
The fixth fort grows naturally in the Azores; this 
hath long flender branches which require fupport, and 
may be trained twenty feet high ; they are garnifhed 
with trifoliate leaves, whole lobes are large and heart- 
fhaped, of a lucid green, and are placed oppofite on 
the branches ; they continue all the year. The flow- 
ers are produced at the end of the branches, in loofe 
bunches ; they have long narrow tubes, which at the 
top are cut into five fegments fpreading open ; they 
are of a clear white, and have a very agreeable fcent. 
This flowers at the fame time with the former ; the 
gardeners call it frequently the Ivy-leaved Jafmine. 
The Azorian Jafmine is alfo pretty hardy, and re- 
quires no more fhelter than only from hard frofts ; 
and I am apt to think, if this fort was planted againft 
a warm wall, and managed as hath been direded for 
the yellow Indian Jafmine, it would fucceed very 
well ; for I remember to have feen fome plants of this 
kind growing againft a wall in the gardens at Hamp- 
ton Court, where they had endured the winter, and 
were in .a more flourifhing ftate than ever I faw any 
of the kind in pots, and produced a greater quantity 
of flowers. Thefe plants are propagated in the fame 
manner as the yellow Indian, and require the fame 
management. 
Thefe plants are as deferving of a place in all green- 
houfes, as any which are there preferved ; for their 
leaves being of a Ihining green, make a good ap- 
pearance all the year ; and their flowers having a fine 
fcent, and continuing fo long in fucceftion, renders 
them very valuable. 
