95 THE GARDENER’S VEGETABLE SYSTEM 
&c. Native of the fouth of Europe. ( Dry foil, warm 
fit u at ion.') ' ‘ 
4 - Jasjjinum grandif.orum, Great-flowered Cata¬ 
lonian Jafmine. 
A deciduous fhrub, with long flexible iiems and 
branches, extending eight or ten feet, or more—the 
leaves ( larger ) pinnated, placed oppofite, compofed 
of three pair of fhort obtufe lobes, acute-pointed; 
and large flowers, blufh colour, and white; July, Au- 
gufl, to October, &c. (very beautiful.)—Native of 
India. ( IVarm, dry foil, Jheltered fituation, ago.infl a 
fouth wall, andJ'ome in pots, to place in a green-houfc.) 
5. Jasminum azoricum, or Azorian White Jafmine. 
A deciduous fhrub, with long, flender Items and 
branches, extending ten to fifteen or twenty feet—the 
leaves ( larger , foining-green) trifoliate, placed op- 
polite, with large heart lobes; and bunches of bright- 
white flowers at the ends of the fhoots; June, 
July, &rc.—Native of the Azores, in India. {Dry, 
warm ’Jituation, againfl a fouth wall, and in pots, to 
haveJhelter in winter.) 
6. Jasminum odoratiffmum, Molt- odorous Yeliow 
Indian Jafmine. 
A deciduous fhrub, with an upright Item and firm 
branches, growing eight or ten feet high—the leaves 
{middling, Jhining-green) ternate and pinnated, placed 
alternately, with the lobes ovai; and bright-yellow 
.flowers at the ends of the fhoots; July, Auguft, and 
September; impart a molt fweet odour.—Native of 
India. {A dry, warm, fituation, againjl a fouth wall ; 
and alfo in pots, to mouse under fhelter in winter.) 
Of the above five fpecies of f afminum, the fir! three 
are hardy fhrubs that will moftly profper in any com¬ 
mon foil and fituation, particularly the firfl and fecond; 
but the third is advifeable to plant in a warm compart¬ 
ment, or fome planted againfl a fouth wall; and the 
fourth, fifth, and fixth forts, are more tender, generally 
kept in green-houfe colleflions, in pots, and houfed in 
winter; but fometimes they are planted againfl a fouth 
wall, and defended in winter, when fevere frofl, with 
mats; likewife, the two ftriped-leaved varieties of the 
Common Jafmine fhould generally have a fheltered 
fituation, but do not require covering iri winter. 
The Jafmines merit culture in pleafure-grounds and 
flower-gardens, aS very ornamental flowering-fhrubs, 
producing numerous flowers in June or July, and Au¬ 
gufl, of a delicate pretty appearance, and difFufe an 
agreeable odour; particularly the Common White, not 
(0 much in the fecond and third yellow forts, but very 
fragant in the Azorian White, and Odorous Yellow In¬ 
dian Jafmine. 
As mofl of the Jafmines grow with long, flend-r, 
declining flems and branches, requiring fupport, they 
are proper to train againfl walls; and for which the 
Common White Jafmine is mofl commonly employed, 
as it fhoots flronger, and confiderably more floriferous 
than the other two hardy kinds, which are alfo, occa- 
fionally, planted and trained againfl walls; they all 
produce numerous long green fhoots, in fuminer, and on 
which the flowers are produced; and as the branches 
and fhoots are of flender, declining growth, require 
training to fome fupport of walls, palings, buildings, 
&c. they fhould be trained thereto accordingly, four or 
five inches afunder, either eredl, or horizontally, as 
the fpace of walling admits; or if required to run 
them in height againfl high walls, or that of a houfc, 
they fhould be trained in an upright dire&ion, gene¬ 
rally training them with feveral fhoots, or flems, from 
the bottom, cutting out the fuperfluous and weak; 
thofe retained, may be pruned at top, to three, four, 
five, or fix feet, according to their llrength, and 
nailed up regular, either eredl, or horizontally, as 
aforef.iid, and kept to regular order, by pruning them 
annually with a knife, not clipped, but generally kept 
pruned in winter or fpring, cutting out the fupera- 
bundant fhoots of the preceding fummer, to continue 
them to diflinft flems, and training in occafional fup- 
plies of the flrongefl fhoots below, in vacancies, or to 
fupply the place of any old naked flems, to be cut out 
accordingly; and by this method, they will always 
have a neat appearance, and flower in greater perfec¬ 
tion. 
Though, fometimes, they are only trained up in a 
proper fupply of fhoots at firfl to the wall, and after¬ 
wards the numerous, fuperabundant, and projecting 
flraggling fhoots of each year, are clipped with garden 
fhears; but by this method, they, in a year or two, 
grow into a confufed, diforderly tiiicket, of a difa- 
greeable appearance. 
Therefore it is advifeable to keep the branches thin 
and regular, by knife-pruning, training in plenty of 
the ftrongeft young fhoots in fummer, for flowering, 
cutting out the overabundant; and in winter, to prune 
out the unneceflary fhoots, with dead and any irre¬ 
gular, naked, old wood, and train in young. 
Or Jafmines may likewife be trained in Angle flana- 
ards, detached from walls, to plant in fhrubberies, 
borders, &c. trimming them up to a Angle flem, one, 
two, or three feet, and branching out at top ; prune 
the flraggling fhoots fhort, to form bufny heads. 
But in fummer-pruning Jafmines, fliould not fhorten 
the flowering-fhoots, or cut off long ftrugglers; and 
train 
