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JASMINUM NUDIFLORUM. 
JASMINUM NUDIFLORUM. 
This plant promises to be one of the most useful of recent in¬ 
troductions. It is one of Mr. Fortune’s China plants, and 
emanated from the Horticultural Society’s garden in 1845. 
Additions to our stock of winter-flowering plants must ever com¬ 
mand attention, and in this case we have an abundant and bril¬ 
liant flowering plant for the most ordinary care. 
Like all other Jasmines, this delights in porous, yet rich soil, 
and I find a mixture of peat, used rather rough, turfy loam, and 
sufficient sand to keep it all open, to suit it better than any other 
preparation. The plant has angular, spreading branches, which 
seem to have a disposition to trail on the ground, and thus offer 
the greatest facility for propagating by layers; and, if this is de¬ 
sired, the shoots may be partially buried in the soil whenever 
they are long enough, and, without tongueing or other trouble, 
will form strong plants by the following spring. In March or 
April they may be taken off and potted singly; and, if accom¬ 
modated through the summer with a cold frame, will grow rapidly. 
In the first year of their growth, they do not seem disposed to 
branch, nor have any of the usual means for inducing this de¬ 
sirable habit any effect upon them, so that we have to wait 
patiently till the following season before much can be done 
towards training. 
Should flowers appear in the first season of the plant’s exist¬ 
ence, they are better removed; and in the second spring the 
usual repotting must be given, which will start the plants into an 
active growth, and at that time the foundation of the future plant 
must be laid. By bending the stems rather abruptly in a down¬ 
ward manner, the joints near the base of each branch will throw 
out other shoots, and, as these become fairly started, the main 
stem may be lifted, and others, from near the upper end, will 
issue, and thus the entire length of the existing branches may be 
filled with new shoots, in the manner practised with vines, and 
which I find preferable to pruning, inasmuch as there are con¬ 
sequently so many more shoots developed. Through the ensuing- 
summer the plant should grow in a slightly shaded frame, and, 
with attention to watering and training, will, by the autumn. 
