We have among our flowers a cape jessamine that perhaps affords us as much satisfaction, with as little trouble, as any plant in our collection. We have had it at least twenty years, and it is a stout well-grown bush at least five feet high. It stands in an ordinary wooden tub in good common garden soil, which, with plenty of water, seems to meet all its wants. All summer long, and every summer, this bush bears many pure white, exquisitely fragrant flowers, which are a source of continual delight to us and to our friends. City visitors especially are enraptured with its beauty and seem to appreciate highly the opportunity of procuring occasionally a blossom without money and without price, for they have to pay dearly for them in the cities. Now any one possessing an ordinary frost-proof cellar to winter the plant in, as it grows too large for window or sitting room accommodation, can enjoy this charming shrub year in and year out at the cost of so little trouble as to be scarce worth mentioning.

The greatest objection to it, with impatient people, is its slow growth, but give it time and it will attain to a goodly size and apparently live forever.

In the fall when danger of frost seems imminent, we have ours carried to the cellar, in which nothing ever freezes. There it stays all winter without one ray of light, for the cellar is perfectly dark. Every few weeks I see if the soil is getting too dry ; if so, I give it a thoroughly good watering. There the plant stays until it is convenient to take it out in the spring, and that is generally not until all danger of frost is past. It is then carried at once to a partially shaded part of the yard and left there for all the summer, as it is too heavy to be moved easily.

Another advantage of the cape jessamine is that it is never troubled by insects. The polished green leaves seem to resist all their attacks. As it is an evergreen, of course it never sheds its leaves - at least ours never did but once, when during its winter captivity it was neglected and became nearly dust dry. Then every leaf dried up and fell off. However it soon re-clothed itself ' in a beautiful suit of fresh foliage, but did not bloom that summer.

Cuttings are easily rooted by taking a small branch that has just dropped its bloom and putting it in a glass jar or bottle of water. Only put the stem in the bottle, of course, and leave the tufts of leaves standing out of the top. It can be placed anywhere. Change the water occasionally, once a week or so. They may root in two weeks and may not for two months. I started a dozen or more this summer, setting the glasses containing them in a north window where they were out of the way. and they soon formed roots. During the flood of 1884. when the cellar, and the house too, were full of water, our plant was submerged for ten days or two weeks. When the water subsided and the cellar could be pumped out, the cape jessamine came forth looking very dejected indeed, but still alive. Of course this mode of treatment is for such as are kept for "tub" or "cellar" plants ; but it is as such that I wanted to recommend it, as so many people seem entirely ignorant of its requirements, and imagine it is very difficult to raise. - Westover.