284 ON THE BKUGMANSIA SUAVEOLENS. 



posed hotbed dung ; each of them obtained the height of twelve 

 or fifteen feet the following summer, and the succeeding summer ex- 

 hibited two pyramids of roses for the space of three months, and 

 formed two of the most conspicuous and splendid objects I ever saw, 

 and elicited universal admiration from all who saw them. Its habit 

 is a good deal like that of the Noisette, flowering in clusters, of ten 

 to twenty-seven, and in vast profusion. The colour is a vivid pur- 

 plish crimson, with a white stripe up each petal. It is well adapted 

 for a trellis ; and as a standard, has a most striking effect, when 

 the umbrella form of training is adopted, particularly when on a good 

 high stock, resembling a complete creeper, covered with the Roses to 

 the ground. Hence its adaption for planting in the centre of cir- 

 cular rosery, on a stem five or six feet in height, trained to the sur- 

 face of the soil. This plan may be adopted with the Double White 

 Musk, which is rather shy in flowering freely in some situations ; but 

 this system of training will have the desired effect. By bending 

 down the shoot as above, it checks the superabundant flow of the sap, 

 and produces an abundance of bloom. If you deem these few prac- 

 tical observations worthy of insertion in you interesting work, they 

 are, of course, at your service. 



ARTICLE XII.— ON GROWING THE BRUGMANSIA SUAVEOLENS, 

 (DAUTRA ARBOREA,) IN THE OPEN AIR. 



BY MR. JAMES BROWN, GARDENER, KERR LODGE, HANTS. 



During the last two seasons I have bloomed the Brugmansia 

 Suaveolens in the open air, and the mode of treatment I pursue I 

 here subjoin, hoping that it will be of service to the readers of the 

 Cabinet. 



Early in the spring of 1834, 1 took off a number of cuttings, and 

 struck them into a melon frame. When rooted I pot six off into 

 twenty- four sized pots, using a rich soil, the plants being placed in 

 the greenhouse during the year. I repot them into a size larger 

 early in August. I keep the plants in the greenhouse till the middle 

 of May 1835, and then turn them out into the border, with balls 

 entire, the situation being open to the sun and sheltered from the west 

 and north. The soil of the border is taken out to the extent of a 

 circle four feet diameter, and half a yard deep, the space is filled 

 up again with the soil and an equal portion of well rotted hotbed 

 dung nearly a year old. 



When each of the plants were put out into the border, they were well 

 watered, which was repeated very frequently during the whole season. 



