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The Winter Jasmine

Jasminum nudiflorum EVERY known jasmine is worth growing if space can be found for it and taste inclines to it. We cannot expect everybody to grow everything, and therefore we deprecate the earnestness of those writers in horticultural papers who devote their fine energies to the abuse of people who grow what suits themselves in defiance of the dictates of their egotistical critics. The jasmine now under consideration is not adapted for any great variety of uses, but it is a pretty thing to grow on a wall near doors and windows, because in the dark days of winter it will be all alive and full of golden light with its generous display of yellow flowers. As these appear when the plant is as yet with out a leaf, it is called the naked flowering jasmine (Jasminum nudiflorum).

This jasmine was introduced from China by the late Mr. Robert Fortune, as one of the results of his memorable happy results:--Chimonanthus fragrans, a very fine subject when in a snug, sheltered nook; Chimonanthus grandiflorus and C. luteus; Forsythia viridissima, Garrya elliptica, and Cydonia Japonica. The first and the last of the list are the best, and any good soil will suit them. "--When they heart, in its pride, would stray From the first pure loves of its youth away-- When the sullying breath of the world would come O'er the flowers it brought from its childhood's home, Think thou again of the woody glade And the sound by the rustling ivy made-- Think of the tree at thy father's door, And the kindly spell shall have power once more."