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■ the hot-bed. If the fummer proves warm, and the trees 
have fucceeded"well, they will produce fome flowers in 
the autumn following, though they will be few in num¬ 
ber, and not near fo ftrong as they will be the fucceeding 
years, when the trees are ftronger and have better roots. 
Thefe plants are commonly preferved in green-houfes, 
xvith oranges, myrtles, See. and, during the winter feafon, 
will require to be frequently watered ; which fhould be 
performed fparingly each time, efpecially in cold weather, 
for too much wet at that feafon will be apt to rot the 
fibres of their roots ; they fhould alf’o have a great fit are 
of frefh air when the weather will permit, for which pur- 
pore they fhould be placed in the cooled part of the green- 
houfe, among plants' that are hardy, where the windows 
may be opened every day, except in frofty weather ; nor 
fhould they be crowded too clofe among other plants, 
which often occafions the tender part of their fhoots to 
grow mouldy and decay. In April the fhoots of thefe 
plants lhould be fhortened down to four eyes, and all the 
weak branches fhould be cut off; and, if you have the 
conveniency of a glafs-ftove, or a deep frame, to place 
the pots in at that feafon, to draw them out again, it will 
be of great fervice in forwarding their flowering; yet ftill 
you fhould be careful not to force them too much ; and, 
as foon as they have made fhoots three or four inches 
. long, the glafles fhould be opened in the day-time, that 
the plants may by degrees be inured to the open air, into 
which they fhould be removed by the latter end of May, 
or the beginning of June; otherwife their flowers will not 
be fo fair, nor continue fo long. If the autumn prove 
favourable, thele plants will continue to produce frefh 
flowers until November; and fometimes, when they are 
■ftrong, they will continue flowering later; but then they 
mutt have a great fhare of air when the weather is mild 
and will admit of it, otherwife the flower-buds will grow 
mouldy and decay. 
But, notwithftanding mod people preferve thefe plants 
in green-houfes, yet they will endure the cold of our or¬ 
dinary winters in the open air, if planted againft a warm 
wall, and covered with mats in frofty weather; they will 
alfo produce ten times as many flowers in one feafon as 
thofe kept in pots, and the flowers will likewife be much 
larger ; but they fhould not be planted abroad till they 
have acquired ftrength, fo that it will be neceflary to keep 
them in pots three or four years, whereby they may be 
fheltered from the froft in winter; and, when they are 
planted againft the wall, which fhould be in May, that 
they may take good root in the ground before the fuc¬ 
ceeding winter, you mutt turn them out of the pots, pre¬ 
serving the earth to their roots ; and, having made holes 
in the border where they are to be planted, you fhould 
place them therein, with their Items clofe to the wall; 
then fill up the holes round their roots with good, frefh, 
rich earth, and give them fome water to fettle the ground 
about them, and nail up their fhoots to the wall, fhort- 
ening fuch of them as are very, long, that they may pufh 
out new fhoots below to furnifh the wall, continuing to 
nail up all the fhoots as they are produced. In the mid¬ 
dle, or toward the latter end, of July, they will begin to 
flower, and continue to produce new flowers untii the 
froft prevents them ; which, when you obferve, you fhould 
carefully cut off all the tops of fuch fhoots as have buds 
formed upon them, as alfo thofe which have the remains 
of faded flowers left; for, if thefe are fuffered to remain 
on,' they will foon grow mouldy, efpecially when the 
trees are covered, and thereby infefl many of the tender 
branches, which will greatly injure the trees. Towards 
the middle of November, if the weather proves cold and 
the nights frofty, you muft begin to cover your trees with 
mats, which fhould be nailed over them pretty clofe; but ■ 
this fhould be done when the trees are perfectly dry, 
otherwife the wet being lodged upon the branches, will 
often caufe a mouldinefs upon them, and the air being 
excluded therefrom, will rot them in a fhort time; it 
will alfo be very neceflary to take off the mats as foon as 
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the weather will permit, to prevent this mouldinefs, and 
only keep them clofe covered in frofty weather, and at 
which tune you fliouid alfo lay feme mulch upon the fur- 
face of the ground about their roots, and fatten fome 
bands of hay about their ftems, to guajxl them from the 
froft; and, in very levere weather, you fhould add a dou¬ 
ble or treble covering of mats over the trees ; by which 
method, carefully performed, you may preferve them 
through the hardeft winters. In the fpring, as the wea¬ 
ther is warmer, you fhould by degrees take oft’ the cover¬ 
ing ; but you fhould be careful not- to expofe them too 
foon to the open air, as alfo to guard them againft the 
morning frofts and dry eatterly winds, which often reign 
in March, to the no fmail deftruftiori of tender plants ex- 
pofed thereto; nor fhould you quite remove your covering 
until the middle of April, when the feafon is fettled ; at 
which time you fliouid prune the trees, cutting out alf 
decayed and weak branches, fhortenilig the ftrong ones to 
about two feet long, which will caufe them to flioot ftrong 
and produce many flowers. There is a variety of this 
with femi-double flowers, which is at prefent more rare 
in England, and only to be found in fome curious gar¬ 
dens; though in Italy it is pretty common, from whence 
it is fometimes brought over amongft the Angle; the 
flowers of this kjnd have only two rows of leaves, fo that 
it is rather cultivated for its curiofity, than for any ex¬ 
traordinary beauty in the flowers. This may be propa¬ 
gated by budding it upon the common white jafinine, as 
has been directed for the Angle, and mult be treated in 
in the fame manner. See Cestrum, Chiococca, Citha- 
REXYLUM, EhRETIA, GUAICUM, IPOM/EA, JUSSIEUA, 
Ixora, Lantana, Nyctanthes, Psychotria, Vol- 
kameria. ■ 
JASMFNUM ARAB'ICUM. See Coffea. 
JASMFNUM CAPEN'SE. See Gardenia Florida. 
JASMI'NUM IN'DICUM. See Plumeria rubra. 
JAS'MUND, a peninfula of the ifland of Rugen, in the 
German Sea,, which, with another peninlula called Witto, 
forms a large bay, fronting the north-eaft, which, in hazy- 
weather, often proves deftructive to veflels : the bay is 
called Trompertuyck. 
JASNIKIMIER', a town of Poland, in the palatinate 
of Kiov : twenty-fix miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Bialacerkiev, 
JAS'NITZ THAL, a river of Germany, in the duchy 
of Stiria, which runs into the river Muehr near Pruck. 
JA'SON, a celebrated hero, fon of Alcimede, daughter 
of Phylacus, by AH fon the fon of Cretheus, and Tyro the 
daughter of Salmoneus. Tyro, before her connexion 
with Cretheus the fon of ZEclus, had two fons, Pelias and 
Neleus, by Neptune. JEfon was king of Iolchos ; and at 
his death the throne was ufurped by Pelias, on account 
of the tender youth of Jafon, the lawful fucceffor. The 
education of young Jafon was entrufted to the care of the 
centaur Chiron ; and he was removed from the prefence 
of the ufurper, who had been informed by an oracle that 
one of the defendants of Aiolus would dethrone him. 
After he had made the moll rapid progrefs in every branch 
of feience, Jafon left the centaur, and by his advice went 
to confult the oracle. He was ordered to go to Iolchos, 
his native country, covered with the fpoils of a leopard, 
. and drefied in the garments of a Magnefian. In his jour¬ 
ney he was flopped by the inundation of the river Eve- 
nus, or Enipeus, over which he was carried by Juno, who 
had changed herfelf into an old woman. In crofting the 
llreams, he loft one of his fandals; and, at his arrival at 
Iolchos, the Angularity of his drefs and the fairnefs of his 
complexion attracted the notice of the people, and drew 
a crowd around him in the market-place. Pelias came to 
fee him with the reft; and, as he had been warned by the 
oracle to beware of a man who fliouid appear at Iolchos 
with one foot bare, and the other ihod, the appearance of 
Jafon, who had loft one Gf his fandals, alarmed him. His 
terrors were foon after augmented. Jafon, accompanied 
by his friends, repaired to the palace of Pelias, and boldly 
demanded the kingdom which he had unjultly ufurped. 
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