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THE FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
mental subjects for every situation in which flowers are grown, 
as they may be selected for the open air, even to the bleakest 
spots, the greenhouse or conservatory, and the stove. The 
number of species grown in British collections exceeds twenty ; 
the most part producing handsome white flowers of the richest 
fragrance 5 the finest is J. sambac, a native of the East Indies, 
a very beautiful plant when grown in a siove, it also succeeds 
well in a greenhouse if allowed a warm situation. This plant 
was first introduced and grown in the Hampton Court Gardens, 
but from some cause was lost soon after. It was then known in 
Europe only at the gardens of the Grand Duke of Tuscany at 
Pisa, where, we are informed by Evelyn, (Memoirs, &c. by 
Bray,) a guard was placed over the plant that no cuttings might 
be purloined ; from this circumstance a very pretty tale has been 
manufactured, which relates that the gardener being attached to 
a beautiful peasant of the neighbourhood, but obliged to defer 
the completion of their happiness from pecuniary reasons, con¬ 
trived to escape the vigilance of the guard, and gatheied a spiig 
of this much prized jasmine as a present to his mistiess; the 
youn 0, girl wishing to preserve this love-token, stucri it in tne 
earth, where it soon emitted roots ; and by certain judicious 
hints given by her lover, it soon became the means of securing 
them all they wished, hence, too, the origin of this flower being 
a chosen bridal present. The plant was not grown in England 
again till the year 1730, when it was sent to Miller, of the Bo¬ 
tanic Gardens at Chelsea. It is now found in all good collec¬ 
tions. It grows best in a fresh turfy loam, and should be pruned 
back freely every autumn; the Mandevillia suaveolens was first 
imported under the name of Chilian jasmine, to which it beais 
a very close affinity. J. grandiflorum and J. azoncum aie 
two very fine sorts; they are propagated by grafting on the stocks 
of the common white jasmine ; they are usually imported from the 
continent, along with orange trees, &c., Genoa supplying a 
great quantity. They may be grown in pots, and aie veiy suit¬ 
able plants for window culture, as they may be turned out of 
doors when not blooming, and do not require much piotection 
during winter. The soil for these should be a good, sound, turfy 
loam ; they require large pots and a good drainage. Care should 
