Jessamine

They have also the sweet smell of the rose and the jessamine, which is a little flower, but the sweetest of all others; and there is not any flower to be found that is rare and exquisite in that country which is not in that wilderness, to delight the senses of those mortified hermits. ❋ Robert A. Wilson (N/A)

I used to tell you it was the jessamine; the jessamine is a simpleton, I tell you. ❋ Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (1896)

The babe dressed in the white garment that gave thee the jessamine is a fragrance of the fragrances of God, reared through His love, a sign of His signs and a breeze of His breezes. ❋ 1844-1921 `Abdu'l-Bah�� (1882)

Moreover in this garden were all manner of other fruits and sweet-scented herbs and plants and fragrant flowers, such as jessamine and henna and water-lilies407 and spikenard 408 and roses of every kind and plantain409 and myrtle and so forth; and indeed it was without compare, seeming as it were a piece of Paradise to whoso beheld it. ❋ Unknown (2006)

My heart warms under snow; flowers with forsythia, japonica blooms, flowering quince, bridal wreath, blood root and violet; yellow running jasmine vine, cape jessamine and saucer magnolias: tulip-shaped, scenting lemon musk upon the air. ❋ ____Maggie (2009)

First they were cleaned, the brass scoured with wood-ash until it shone pale gold, the silver made bright, the brushes and dusting-cloths washed, cupboards turned out, everything washed again in running water and dried sun; then prayers were said for the household tools, and marigold flowers and jessamine were put on the shelves. ❋ Linda (2009)

A couple of houses down is a smaller, though simply charming home with blooming Carolina jessamine along the porch. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In doing so I held it within a few inches of my eyes, and was conscious of a faint smell of the scent known as white jessamine. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This one likes the bird netting wrapped around the porch support to grasp with its leaves, the other has to do battle with a vigorous carolina jessamine, and is not producing the same wattage purple flower show as the lucky porch post dweller. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Carolin jessamine, gelsemium sempervirens, has many buds and this one opened on cue for the bloom day. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The door was locked during the brief absence of the mistress; a dim light glimmered through the sashed door of the hall, which opened beneath a huge stone porch, loaded with jessamine and other creepers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Quoth she, “When the flower-seller passeth I will buy thee a basketful of jessamine.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

'Have you, indeed?' cried he, sprinkling some jessamine drops upon his hands; 'how horribly abominable? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Quoth he, “It is not the jessamine one smells, but a slave-girl named Jessamine, whom my father would not buy for me.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

So he landed and, finding himself in a great and pleasant island, paced about it and saw with admiration that its dust was saffron and its gravel carnelian and precious minerals; its hedges were of jessamine, its vegetation was of the goodliest of trees and of the brightest of odoriferous shrubs; its brushwood was of Comorin and Sumatran aloes-wood and its reeds were sugar-canes. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Then he looked at the garden and saw that it was full of jessamine and gilly flowers and violets and roses and orange blossoms and all manner sweet-scented blooms and herbs. ❋ Unknown (2006)

There was a bower at the farther end, with honeysuckle, jessamine, and creeping plants — one of those sweet retreats which humane men erect for the accommodation of spiders. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The seat is shaded by aromatic shrubs, and I have had a very large jessamine, some honeysuckle, and Spanish brooms transplanted there, so that some day the rock will be entirely covered with climbing plants. ❋ Unknown (2007)