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HE twining jessamine and blushing rose 
With lavish grace their morning scents disclose. 
AND oft when from that scorching shore, 
In after years those odors came, 
He pictured his green cottage door, 
The shady porch and window frame, 
T T OW lovelily the jasmine flower 
1 Blooms far from man’s observing eyes; 
And having lived its little hour, 
There withers,— there sequester’d dies! 
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— Prior. 
Far, far away across the foam: 
The very jasmine-flower that crept 
Round the thatched roof about his home 
Where she he loved then safely slept. 
— Miller. 
Though faded, yet ’tis not forgot; 
A rich perfume, time cannot sever, 
Lingers in that unfriended spot, 
And decks the jasmine’s grave forever. 
— Ryan. 
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Jasminum otTlriuCtk. Natural Order: Jasminacece — Jasmine Family. 
HITE JASMINE is a splendid shrub, climbing on supports 
to a height of fifteen or twenty feet, and is much used in 
Europe for the covering of arbors and trellises. It is not 
sufficiently hardy to endure the winters of our Northern 
b States without the protection of a wall or other building to 
defend it from the fierce breath of the ungenial north wind. 
Its flowers are beautiful and fragrant, and their praises have been beau¬ 
tifully sung by Lord Morpeth (afterward earl of Carlisle), who says: 
“I ask not, while I near thee dwell, 
Arabia’s spice or Syria’s rose; 
Thy bright festoons more freshly smell, 
Thy virgin white more freshly glows.” 
There is in the tropical parts of the United States a fine Jasmine with beautiful 
yellow blossoms, that is heavily laden with delightful perfume. It is now culti¬ 
vated in all warm climes, but was unknown in Europe until 1560, when it was 
introduced by the Spaniards from the East. 
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