. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. JASMINUM easy culture. They propagate readily by cuttings of nearly mature wood and by layers. Often the fls. are very fragrant. The species are usually culled Jas- mines, aTid the word Jessamine is commonly restricte


. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. JASMINUM easy culture. They propagate readily by cuttings of nearly mature wood and by layers. Often the fls. are very fragrant. The species are usually culled Jas- mines, aTid the word Jessamine is commonly restricted to J', officinale, which is the Jessamine of poetry. Some of thera (particularly J. graudifloritm) are grown for perfume-making. The Cape Jessamine is Gardenia. Yel- low or Carolina Jessamine is Gelsemium. INDEX. afiBne, 7. lucidum, 6. revolutum, 10. anastomosans, 5. iiudtiflornm, 3. Sanibae, 1. Azoricum, 9. nudiflonnn, 12. Sieboldianuiti, 12. flavum, 10. odoratissimum, 11. simplicifolium. 0. gracite, 6. officinale, 7. trifoliatum, 1. graeillimum, 4. poetictim, 7. trinerve, 5. grandiflorum, 8. piibesfens. 3. triiimpkans, 10. hir&utum, 3. Ifi'cvesii, 10. undulatiiin, 2. liumile, 10. A. Lvs. reduced to one Ift,: fls. white. B. Calyx pubescent or hairy, 1. Sambac, Soland. Arabian Jasmine. Climbing, the angular brauchlets pubescent: lvs. opposite or ter- nate (the ternate-lvd. specimens giving rise to the name trifoliatum), firm in texture, shining, nearly or quite glabrous, the petiole short and abruptly curved upwards, elliptic-ovate or broad-ovate, either prominently acute or completely rounded on the end, entire, prominently veined: clusters 3-12-fld.: calyx lobes linear and promi- nent, hirsute on the edges (sometimes almost glabrous): corolla tube y^ in. long; lobes oblong or orbicular. India. —Much cult, in the tropics. Fls. white, but turn- ing purple as they die. 1:1. A full double but- ton-fld. group is in cult., one form of which is the Grand Duke of Tuscany


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