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Ammobium alatum, a good addition to the class of flowers popularly 

 called everlastings. 



GEnothera tenella; Loasa nitida and Placei. 



Bulbous Plants.— Allium striatellum and Cowani ; Amaryllis longifoha. 



Herbaceous Plants. — (Enotheva acauMs; very dwarf, with pure white 

 flowers, which expand early in the evening, and remain open during the 

 night, closing by nine o'clock next morning. A good border plant. 



"Senecio venustus ; handsome, and easily cultivated. 



Calendula incana, now (1826) a weed in Chelsea Garden. 

 Of the above 61 plants, 26 have been introduced by the 

 Society, and of these 26, 14 were sent home by that indefati- 

 gable collector, Mr. George Don. 



6. On the Cultivation of Stratvberries. By Thomas Andrew- 

 Knight, Esq. F.R.S. &c. President. Read December 21st 

 1824. 



Mr. Knight, referring to Mr. Keens's paper on the straw- 

 berry (Hort. Trans, vol. ii. p. 392. andEncyc. of Gard. § 4717.), 

 states that it contains some opinions which he does not think 

 well founded ; and he adds, " as I rarely see in gardens of my 

 friends that which, in my opinion, is even a moderately good 

 crop of strawberries, (! !) I shall proceed to state some conclu- 

 sions which theory and practice have conjointly led me to 

 draw, relatively to the most advantageous modes of culture of 

 those species and varieties of fruit." 



Mr. Knight agrees with Mr. Keens that the Spring is the 

 only proper season for planting. The aggregate produce in 

 two seasons of a plantation made in August will generally be 

 found to be less in quantity, and very inferior in quality, to 

 that afforded in one season, of equal extent, made in the 

 Spring. Mr. Keens suffers his beds to continue three years, 

 and plants his hautbois and pines at eighteen inches apart in 

 the rows, with intervals of two feet between the rows. Mr. 

 Knight plants the Downton strawberry, which requires as much 

 space as the hautbois or pine, in rows at sixteen inches dis- 

 tance, with only eight inches distance between the plants ; and 

 he has found each plant at such distances, nearly, if not quite 

 as productive as when placed with much wider intervals. The 

 old scarlet strawberry Mr. Knight found to bear admirably 

 at a foot distance between the rows, and six inches plant from 

 plant ; and he thinks he has obtained more than twice the 

 amount of produce from the same extent of ground which he 

 should have obtained if his plants had been placed at the dis- 

 tances recommended by Mr. Keens. The beds, however, are 

 totally expended at the end of sixteen or seventeen months 

 from the time of their being formed, and the ground is then 

 applied to other purposes. " I have consequently the trouble 

 annually of planting; but I find this trouble much less than 



