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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
JASMINE. 
AMIABLENESS. 
The Jasmine seems to have been created 
expressly to be the happy emblem of an ami¬ 
able disposition. When brought from India, 
about the year 1560, by Spanish navigators, 
the slenderness of its branches and the delicate 
brightness of its starry flowers were univer¬ 
sally admired : to preserve so elegant a plant, 
it was thought necessary to place it in the 
hothouse, which seemed to suit it perfectly 
well. The orangery was then tried, and there 
it grew surprisingly. It was then risked in 
the open air, and now, without needing any 
sort of care, it withstands the utmost severity 
of winter. 
In all situations, the amiable Jasmine suffers 
its supple branches to he trained into any form 
that the gardener chooses to give them: most 
commonly forming a living tapestry for our 
arbours or the walls of our houses or gardens, 
