1849. 
THE CULTIVATOR. 
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18- DOUBLE BRUGMANSIA. 
feet high, with woody stems three inches in diameter; 
and one in the summer of 1837, bore upwards of 2,000 
flowers.” The treatment they received, was to keep 
them in the frame in the reserve ground during the win¬ 
ter, and to turn them out into very rich soil, late in the 
spring, and keep them well supplied with water during 
summer. It must be evident at a glance that so large 
and vigorous a plant needs a pot or tub of very large 
dimensions. When well treated, it continues in flower 
for several months during summer and a part of au¬ 
tumn. 
The Double Brugmansia, (B. Knightii,) figured 
above, and taken from a late number of the Horticul¬ 
turist , an exact portrait of a fine specimen in posses¬ 
sion of the editor, is thus described in that interesting 
Magazine;—“ The flowers are pure white, long trum¬ 
pet-shaped and double,—one tube being inserted within 
the other. The immense size of the flowers—each 
about nine inches long, and the curiously ruffled ap¬ 
pearance of the lower part of the corolla, make it a 
most conspicuous object when in full bloom. Some 
specimens, six or eight feet high, which we saw in full 
bloom at Montgomery Place lately, were the most su¬ 
perb and striking objects in the large and beautiful 
flower garden of that demesne.” 
Culture of Strawberries. 
A practical man, who writes in the Horticulturist, 
says: “Strawberries can be produced in great abun¬ 
dance, and with more ease than any other valuable 
fruit. With a moderate degree of care and attention, 
they will yield at the rate of one hundred bushels per 
acre. They will grow freely on any soil that will give 
a good crop of corn; and if planted early in spring, 
will yield a fair crop in June.” He says a common 
error is to plant them in old worn out garden soils, or 
to manure them too highly, which gives vines, but no 
fruit. The best is a good, deep, new soil, not exces¬ 
sively rich. 
Pruning Transplanted Evergreens. 
The following interesting experiment, showing the 
equal importance of pruning evergreens and deciduous 
trees, when transplanted with mutilated roots, is given 
in a late number of The Horticulturist: 
“ In April last, I obtained at Flushing, twelve trees 
of the Norway Spruce. They were sent to me as they 
are grown in the nurseries, with the limbs starting from 
the roots. They were very badly taken up, and still 
wrnrse packed. The small amount of moss which was 
put around the roots was entirely dry, and the roots 
themselves were badly bruised and broken in taking up 
or on their passage. 
u Three of the best of the trees I set out in the sha¬ 
ded grounds about my house, leaving all the limbs un¬ 
touched . 
“ The remaining nine were planted on the adjacent, 
streets, exposed to the full blaze of the sun, and the 
reflection from the dry dust; and thinking that the con¬ 
dition of these nine trees required decided remedies, 1 
pruned them severely, leaving only those limbs which 
were within a few feet of the top. 
“ They were all planted in the most careful manner, 
were well mulched and watered, but the three first men¬ 
tioned w T ere watered most frequently, and were protect¬ 
ed most of the day by the shade of other trees. Now 
for the result: all of the trees on the street are alive, 
and eight of them have thrown out shoots several inch, 
es long. The ninth stands in an unfavorable position ■ 
