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AMIABILITY. 
tings from the plant which love had given 
her, and bestowed it, with her hand, upon the 
gardener of her heart. The young girls of 
Tuscany, in remembrance of this adventure 
always deck themselves, on their wedding- 
day, with a nosegay of jasmine; and they 
have a proverb, that “ she who is worthy to 
wear a nosegay of jasmine, is as good as a 
fortune to her husband.” 
Ought we not then to cultivate more gene¬ 
rally what love first scattered abroad, for 
Cotton observes, how numerous are the pur¬ 
poses to which it may be applied : 
Here jasmine spreads the silver flower, 
To deck the wall or weave the bower. 
Carrington, one of nature’s poets, makes 
it expressive of sympathy ; which is a very 
prominent quality in amiability: 
The jasmine droops above the honoured dead. 
The seed of the jasmine will not ripen in 
our climate, but the plant is increased by 
layering down the branches, which take root 
in one year; they may then be separated from 
the parent stock, and be planted where they 
are to remain. It may also be propagated 
by cuttings, which ought to be planted in 
the early part of autumn, and the earth co¬ 
vered with sand, ashes, or saw-dust, to keep 
the frost from entering the ground. 
