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rate temperature, rn order to bring the plants forward ; 
water them as often as is neceflary, and in the great heat 
tof the day the glaffes fhould be tilted pretty high, and 
fhaded with mats, to prevent the plants from being 
Scorched with heat. About the middle of May begin to 
harden them to the open air, by taking off the glades 
when the weather is vtarm ; but this wuft be done cautw 
oufly, for you (liould not expofe 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 '(bowers of iriin, and fo by degrees inure 
them to bear the fun ; and in June take the pots out of 
the hot-bed, and carry them to fome well-flieltered fitua- 
tion, where they may remain until the beginning of Oc¬ 
tober; at which time they mult be carried into the green- 
houfe, obferving'to place them where they may enjoy as 
much free air as poflible when the windows are opened, 
as alfo to be clear from the branches of other plants. Dur¬ 
ing the winter Teafon they will require to be often wa¬ 
tered, but be careful not to give them too much at each 
time; and in March remove thefe plants each into a fepa- 
rate pot, being careful not to take the earth from their 
roots; and, if at this time you plunge them into a fr<?fh 
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 Items, and incapable to fupport their hea_ds, 
which is a great defeft in thefe trees. You mult alfo har¬ 
den them to the open air, into which they fhould be re¬ 
moved about the middle of May,.obferving, as was before 
directed, tonlacethem in a fituation that is defended from 
ftrong winds, which are injurious to thefe plants, efpeci- 
ally while they are young. In winter, houfe them as be¬ 
fore, and continue the fame care, with which they will 
thrive very faft, and produce annually great quantities of 
flowers. In the fpring thefe plants fhould be pruned, 
when you fhould cut off all decayed branches ; but you 
muft not fhorten any of the other branches, as is directed 
for the Spanifli fort, for the flowers of this kind are pro¬ 
duced only at the extremity of the branches, which, if 
fliortened, they would be cut off; and thefe, growing of a 
more ligneous fubftance than the other, will not produce 
ihoots ftrong enough to flower the fame year. If you 
would propagate this plant from layers, the {hoots would 
be laid down in March ; arid if you give them a little cut 
at the joint, as is praclifed in laying carnations, it will 
promote their rooting ; obferve to refrefh 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 before directed for 
feedling plants. 
The common white jafmine is eafily propagated by lay¬ 
ing 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 alfo be propa¬ 
gated by cuttings, which fhould be planted early in the 
autumn"; and, if the winter fhould prove fevere, the fur- 
face of the ground between them fhould be covered with 
tan, fea-coal allies, or faw-duft, which will prevent the 
froft from penetrating deep into the ground, and thereby 
preferve the cuttings; or, where thefe are wanting, fome 
peale-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 occafion damps, which often deftroy them. When 
thefe plants are removed, they fhould be planted where 
they are defigned to he continued, which fhould be either 
againft fome wall, pale, or other fence, where the flexible, 
branches may be fupported ; for, although it is fomet-imes 
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 Ihoots, which, if fliortened .before the flowers 
are blown, will entirely deprive' the trees of flowers. 
Thefe plants fhould be permitted to grow rude in the fum- 
tner, 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 pall; for, if it fhould prove 
fharp frofly weather after their rude branches are pruned 
off, and the ftrong ones are expofed thereto, they are very 
often deftroyed ; and, this plant being ver.y backward in 
fliooting, there will be no danger .of hurting by late pru¬ 
ning. There are two varieties of this with variegated 
leaves, one with white, and the other with yellow, ftripes; 
but the latter is the molt 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 com¬ 
municated their gilded miafma to the plants; fo that, iir 
a fhort time after, many of the branches, both above and 
below the places where the buds have been inferted, have 
been thoroughly tinflured ; and the following year very 
diftant branches,-which had no ether communication with 
thole which were budded than by the root, have been as 
completely tinged as any of the nearer branches, fo that the 
juices muft have defeended into the root. Tbe two ftriped 
forts fhould be planted in a warm fituation, efpeci.'illy 
the wbite-ftriped ; for they are much more tender than 
the plain, and are very fubjecl to be deftroyed by great 
froils ; therefore the white-ftriped fhould be planted to a 
fonth or fouth-well afpefl, and in very fevere winters the 
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 afpetls ; 
but thefe plants with variegated leaves are not fo much 
in efteem as formerly. 
The Spanifli jafmine is propagated by budding or in¬ 
arching it upon the common white jafmine, on which it 
takes very well, and is rendered hardier than tliofe which 
are upon their own flocks. But the plants of this 
kind being brought over from Italy every fpring in fo 
great plenty, they are feldom raifed here. We fhall there¬ 
fore proceed to the management of fuch plants as are 
ufually brought into England from the place above-men¬ 
tioned, which are generally tied up in final) bunches, 
containing four plants, and their roots wrapped about 
with mofs, to preferve them from dying ; which, if it 
happen that the fliip has a long paffage, will often occafion 
them to pufh out ftrong ihoots from their roots, which 
muft always be taken off before they are planted, other- 
wife they will exhauft the whole nourifhment of the plant, 
and deftroy the graft. In the making choice of thefe 
plants, you fhould carefully obferve if their grafts are 
alive, and in good health ; for, if they are brown and 
fhrunk, they will not pufh out, fo that there will be only 
the flock left, which is of the c’ommon fort. When yqu 
receive thefe plants, you muft clear the roqts of the mofs, 
and all decayed branches fhoitld be taken off; then place 
the roots in a pot or tub of water, which fhould be 
fet in the green-houfe, or fome oth r room, where it may 
be fereened from the cold; in this fituation they may 
continue two days, after which you muft prune off all the 
dry roots, and cut down the branches within four inches 
of the place where they were grafted, and plant them into 
pots filled with frefh light earth ; then plunge the pots - 
into a moderate hot-bed of tanners’ bark, obferving to 
water and fhade them as the heat of the feafon may re¬ 
quire. In about a month or fix weeks after they will be¬ 
gin to fhoot, when you muft carefully rub off all fuch as, 
are produced from the- flock below the graft; and you 
muft now let them have a great fhareof air, by railing the, i 
glaffes in the heat of the day; and, as the Ihoots extend, 
they, fhould be topped, to llrengthen them, and by de¬ 
grees fhould hardened to endure the open air, into 
which they fhould be removed the beginning of June, but 
muft have a warm fituation the firft fiummer ; for, if they 
are too much expofed to the winds, they will make but ’ 
indifferent progrefs, being rendered fomewhat tender by 
