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Show A) Flower confifts of one Leaf, is Funnel-foap’d, and divided into five Segments : The Flowers are fucceeded by Berries, which {plit in the Middle, cach Side, for the moft part, containing a [epa- in the follow ing Spring : But this Method js feldom practis'd, the Layers always mal King 1. Jasminum; vulgatitis, flore albo. C. B.P. The common white Jaimine. 2. Jasminum ; vulgatius, flore albo, foliis "The common white Fafmine, with yellow ftrip’d Leaves. 3. Jasminum 3 vulgatius, flore albo foliis ex albo elegantiffime variegatis. ‘The common white Fa/mine, with white-ftrip’'d Leaves. 4 Jasminum 5 bumile luteum. C. B. P. : the beft Plants. When vate Seed. The Species are ; ex luteo elegantiffime variegatis. of them live, andhave Roots fit to be remov'd thefe Plants are removy’d, the fhould be planted wheretheyarede fign’d to ie continu’'d, which fhould be either ift fome Wall, Pale, or other Fence wherethe flexible Branches maybe fupported: For altho’ it is fometimes planted asa Standard, andform’d into a Head, yet it will be very difficult to keep it in any handfome Order; orif you do, you mutt cut off all the Flowering Branches: For the Flowers are always produc’d at the Extremity of the fame Year's Shoots, which, Dwarf yellow Fa/mine, commonly call’d The Italian yellow ‘fa/mine. 5. Jasminum 5 Juteum, vulgé diftum bacciferum. C.B.P. Thecommonyellow Fa/mine. if fhortned before the Flowers are blown, will 6. Jasminum; humilius, magno flore. C. B.P. The Spanifh white, or Catalonian Famine, 7. Jasminum 3 bumilius, magno flore pleno. Norfhould you prune andnail themuntil the intirely deprive the Trees of Flowers. Plants fhould be permitted ‘Thefe to grow rude in the Summer, for the Reafon before given: Middle or Latter-end of March, when the frofty Weather is paft ; for if it fhould prove The double Spanith Fa/mine. fharp frofty Weatherafter their rude Branches 8. Jasminum ; Indicum, flavum, odoratif- are prun’d off, and the ftrong ones are expos'd fimum. Fer. Flor. The yellow Indian Fa/mine. thereto, they are very often deftroy’d ; and g. Jasminum ; Azoricum, trifoliatum, flore this Plant being very backward in Shooting, albo odoratifimum. H. A. The Three-leay’d there will be no Danger of Hurting them by Azorian Fafmine, with very fweet white late Pruning. Flowers, commonly call’d ‘The Ivy-leav’d The two Strip’d Sorts fhould beplanted in Fafmine. i a warm Situation, efpecially the Wh'te Strip’d, to. Jasminum 3 Africanum, folio Vicis, for they are much more tender than the Plain, flore folitario, ex alis foltorum proveniente albo. and very fubjeét to be deftroy’d by great Com. Rar, African Mex-leav’d Fa/inine, with Frofts, if they are expos’d thereto ; therefore a fingle white Flower produc’d from the Wings it will be proper to preferve a Plant of each of the Leaves. Kind in Pots, which may be remov’d into the 11, Jasminum 3 five Sambach Avabum Green-houfe in Winter, left, by expofing “em 2 Alpini, FB. The fingle Arabian Fa/iine. to the Cold, they fhould all be deftroy’d, and 12. Jasminum ; Arabicum, foliis Limonii fo you lofe the Sorts. conjugatis, flore albo pleno, cdoratiffimo. Boerb. The common Yellow Ja/mine was formerly Ind. The double Arabian 7a/mine. in greater Plenty in Eng/and than at prefent, 13. JAsMtnuM ; Arabicum, Cafanea folio and was planted againft Arbours, €e. to cover ; albo, } dap atalien, Z 2 love odoratiffimo, cujus fruéius Coffy in them, tho’ it is not near fo proper for that officinis dicuntur nobis. Com, Ph. Uf, The Purpofe as the White Sort, it being of much Coffee-Tree. flower Growth, nor will it ever extend its The firft Sort is very common in moft Branchesfo far as that ; but however, it may, Englifb Gardens, being much cultivated for have a Place among the Flowerin Shrubs ©: g the Sweetnefs of its Flowers. The fecond and low Growth, where it may be with mote third Sorts are accidental Varieties from the Eafe reduc’d to a Standard than the other. firft, and may be obtain’d by inoculating the This Plant flowers in May and June ; but Buds of thefe into the common Fa/mine ; they have very little Scent, which has occa which, although the Buds fhould perifh, (as it often happens) yet it feldom fails to fain fion’d its being lefs regarded. It maybe proboth the Leaves and Branches of the old pagated by Suckers, which it generally produces in great Numbers ; or by Layers, 49 i on which the Buds were put : So that was directed for the CommonSort, and be full y inoculating fome of thefé Buds into fome hardy, as oe oe in divers Parts of an old The Dwarf Yellow Fafmine is fomewhat ree, they will not fail to tinge the w tenderer than the former; yet it will endute Tree ina fhort Time. fe vied the Cold of our ordinary Winters, if it be The commonI white Fafminenine is i eafily proin a warmSituation. ‘The Flowers © tpge by laying down the tender Bruce planted this Kind are generally larger than thole ot in the Spring, which, by the fucceeding Spring the Common Sort, and better-fcented, but es be rooted {trong enough to be tranifeldom produc’d fo carly in the Sealonaaan They may alfo be propagated by are It may be propagated by laying down the Cuttings, which fhould be planted in March tender Branches, as was directed for the comin a moift Border, where they may hav the mon White Sort ; or by Budding or Inar Morning Sun th in;: -But Sut they La muft be skreen’d itupon the commonYellowfa/7 from the Violence € of of the Sun i in the Heat of of which is preferable, as maki the Day, frequently waterd in ther. ; dry Wea‘Theand Cut “quently water'd hardier than thofe which are ob ‘s tings thus-manag d, will many Layers: They fhould be planted ¢ warm Wall ; and in very fevere Winters wil require to be fhelter’d with Mats, or fome other Covering, otherwife they are fubject to be deftroy’'d. The Manner of Dreffing and Pruning being the fame as was directed for the White Fafimine, 1 fhall not repeat it. The Spanifo White, or Catalonian Fa/imine, is one ofthe moft beautiful ofall the Sorts, as alfo extremely {weet-fcented: The Flowers of this Kind are muchlarger than any of the others, and are commonly of a Red Colour Weather ; for too much Wet at that Seafon will be apt to rot the Fibres of their Roots : They fhould alfo have a great Share of free Air when the Weather will permit ; for which Purpofe they fhould be plac’d in the cooleft Part of the Green-houfe among Plants that are hardy, where the Windows may be open’d every Day, except in frofty Weather: nor fhould they be crouded too clofe among other Plants, which often occafions their growing mouldy, and decays the younger Branches. In April the Shoots of thefe Plants fhould be Budding or Inarching it upon the common fhorten’d downto four Eyes, and all the weak Branchesfhould be cut off; and if you have White ‘fa/mine, on whichit takes very well, and is render’d hardier than thofe which are the Conveniency of a Glafs-Stove, or a deep upon their own Stocks, But thofe of this Frame, to place the Pots into at that Seafon, Kind being brought over from Italy every to draw them out again, it will be of great Spring in fo great Plenty, they are feldom Service in forwarding their Flowering : yet raisd here: I fhall therefore proceed to the ftill you fhould be careful not to force them gement of fuch Plants as are ufually too much ; and as foon as they have made t into England from the Place above- Shoots three or four Inches long, the Glaffes mention’d, which generally are ty’d up in fhould be opened in the Day-time, that the {all Bunchescontaining three or four Plants, Plants may by degrees be inured to the open and wrapp’d about their Roots with Mofs, to Air, into which they fhould be removed by preferve them from drying ; which, if it hap- the latter End of May, or the Beginning of pen that the Ship has a long Paflage, will often Fune, otherwife their Flowers will not be fo occafion them to pufhout ftrong Shoots from fair, nor continue fo long. If the Autumn their Roots, which muft always be taken off proves favourable, thefe Plants will continue before planted, otherwife they will exhauft to produce frefh Flowers until Afichaelmas ; the whole Nourifhment of the Plant, and de- and fometimes, when theyare ftrong, they will continue Flowering till Chrifzmas, or after: ftroy the Graft. When youreceive thefé Plants, you muft but then they muft have a great Share of Air clear the Roots of the Mofs, and all decay’d when the Weatheris mild and will admit of Branches fhould be taken off; then place their it, otherwife the Flower-Buds will grow Roots into a Pot or Tub of Water, which mouldy, and decay. But notwithftanding moft People preferve fhould be fet in the Green-houfe, or fome other Room, where it may be skreen’d from thefe Plants in Green-houfes, yet they will the Cold: In this Situation they may con- endure the Cold of our ordinary Winters in tinue two Days; after which you muft prune the open Air, if planted againft a warm Wall, off all the dry Roots, and plant them into and covered with Mats in frofty Weather; Pots fill’d with frefh light Earth; then plunge they'll alfo produce ten times as many Flowers the Pots into a moderate Hot-bed of Tanners in one Seafon as thofe kept in Pots, and the Bark, obferving to water and fhade them, as Flowers will likewife be much larger: but the Heat of the Seafon may require. In about they fhould not be planted abroad till they three Weeks or a Month’s ‘Time they will have fome Strength ; fo that it will be necedbegin to fhoot, when you muft carefully rub fary to keep ’em in Pots two orthree Years, off all fuch as are produc’d from the Stock wherebythey maybe fhelter’d fromthe Froft belowthe Graft ; and you muft now let them in Winter: And whenthey are plantedagainft have a great Share of Air, by raifing the the Wall, which fhould be in Afay, that they Glaffes in the Heat of the Day : and as the may take good Root in the Groundbefore Shoots extend, they fhould be topp’d, to the fucceeding Winter, you muft turn them ftrengthen them, and, by Degrees, fhould be out of the Pots, preferving the Earth to their harden’d to endure the open Air, into which Roots; and haying made Holes in the Border on the Oursfide. ‘This Plant is propagated by they fhotld be remov’d in une: but muft have a warm Situation the firft Summer ; for if they are too much expos’d to the Winds, ill make but indifferent Progrefs, being ender'd fomewhat tender by the Hot-bed. if the Summer be warm, and the Trees have fu ed well, they will produce fome Flowin the Autumnfollowing, tho’ theywill be in Number, and not near fo {trong as will be the fucceeding Years, when the rees are ftronger, and have better Roots. _Thefe Plants are commonly prefery’d in Green-houfes, with O: NEES, Myrtles, &c. and during the Winter-feafon will require to be fr gently water’d, which fhould be given 1¢m {paringly each time, efpecially in cold where they are to be planted, you fhould place them therein, with their Stems clofe to the Wall ; thenfill up the Holes round their Roots with good frefh rich Earth, and give them fome Water, to fettle the Ground about them, and nail up their Shoots to the Wall, fhortening fuch of them as are verylong, that they maypufh out new Shoots below, to furnifh the Wall, continuing to nail upall the Shoots as they are produc’d In the middle, or toward the latter end of Fuly, they will begin to flower, and continue to produce new Flowers until the Froft prevents them ; which, when you obferve, you fhould carefully cut off all the Tops of fuch Shoots as have Buds form’d upon them, as alfo thofe which have the ReMmmm mains |