



40 AMIABILITY. 
it, with her hand, upon the gardener of her 
heart. The young girls of Tuscany,in remem- 
brance of this adventure, always deck them- 
selves, 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 purposes 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 pro- 
minent 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 layer- 
ing 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 covered with sand, 
ashes, or saw-dust, to keep the frost from 
entering the ground. 
















