BRUGMANSIA (included in Datura by older texts). Angel's trumpet. South America. These are stout-stemmed, often ungainly shrubs or small trees, eventually developing attractive trunk structures if carefully pruned. The large (to 1' or more long), broad leaves, though coarsely textured, give the plants a tropical appearance. Most striking, however, are enormous pendant, trumpet shaped flowers of white, pink, yellow, orange or red, borne most heavily in summer and fall. Sun or light shade, most soils, moderate watering. The following—or at least their tops—are decidedly tender, with one exception (see below). However, we have seen some remarkable recoveries from underground rootstocks following the hard freeze of 1990. Perhaps it is best to think of them as giant herbaceous perennials, not the shrub-trees they can be in the tropics.

‘Betty Marshall’. An unusually compact plant, with smaller, paler green leaves than most selections. The flowers are cream-white in color and sweetly fragrant.

candida ‘Double White’ is similar to the last in habit, though sporting larger leaves and given a distinctly grey cast by the dense felt of white hairs. The cream-white flowers have a hose-in-hose arrangement of two or more trumpets.

‘Charles Grimaldi’. We are happy to recapture this old friend, restored to us by San Marcos Growers. It is extremely vigorous, reaching 8' or more in a single season. It has dark green, conspicuously toothed leaves up to 1' long. During the warmer months huge pale orange, wonderfully fragrant trumpets hang from the branches.

‘Frosty Pink’ has pale, greyish leaves and fragrant 10" blossoms, colored soft salmon pink.

‘Hetty Kraus’. This hybrid has conspicuously toothed leaves and huge orange-yellow flowers. It has been damaged even at 30^o, but quickly recovers from the base.