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LADIES 7 FLOWER GARDENER. 
The Arabian jasmine is very fragrant, but it does net endure 
cold, or much heat, therefore an eastern aspect suits it best. If 
the Arabian jasmine is grown in a large pot or box, it could 
be placed urjder cover during frost in the winter months ; but do 
not place it in a green-house, which would be in the other ex¬ 
treme again. 
The yellow jasmine may be treated like the common jasmine. 
It is not very fragrant, but it forms an elegant variety. 
I have seen very fanciful and beautiful devices invented to dis¬ 
play the beauty of the jasmine. Their shoots grow so rapidly 
and luxuriantly, that if the plant is allowed to luxuriate, it will 
soon cover any frame-work with its drooping beauty. The jas- 
mine loves to hang downwards ; and I have admired inventive 
little arbors, where the plant has been trained up behind them, 
and the branches allowed to fall over their front in the richest 
profusion, curtained back like the entrance of a tent. The effect, 
during their time of flowering, was remarkably elegant. 
When you prune the jasmine, cut the branches to an eye or 
bud, just by the place from which they sprout, and that in such 
a manner, that the head when trimmed, should resemble the head 
of a willow. This method makes them throw out abundance of 
branches and fine flowers. 
Give fresh soil to the jasmine every two years, or they will 
gradually become weakened in their blooms. The secret of hav¬ 
ing fine flowers is in keeping up the soil to a regular degree of 
strength, as the human frame languishes under change of diet, 
and becomes weakened for want of food. Thus it is with animate 
and inanimate nature. 
