Plate 387. 

 VARIETIES OF PERSIAN CYCLAMEN. 



We had not the opportunity of seeing the wonderful plants 

 of Cyclamen, exhibited by Mr. Wiggins, gardener to Mr. Walter 

 Beck, of Weston Cottage, Isleworth; but we have been in- 

 formed by various lovers of flowers that there was not, during 

 this present spring, any collection of plants that elicited more 

 admiration or warmer eulogiums than they did. The wonder- 

 ful cultivation to which they had been subjected had produced, 

 at only eighteen months from the sowing of the seed, plants 

 with hundreds of bloom, rising out of a foliage that completely 

 conceal the pots. We, last year, figured some of Mr. Wiggins's 

 seedlings, and gave a statement of his method of treatment. 

 We now give figures of some of his more recent seedlings ; and 

 a reference to the former Plate (339) will at once show thai 

 great advance has been obtained in the variety of colouring 

 introduced into them. 



Purity (Fig. 1) is a pure white variety. It is always impos- 

 sible to give anything like an idea of the purity of white 

 flowers in a drawing, but we can testify that a plant in our own 

 greenhouse has been the admiration of everybody this spring; 

 its pure white blossoms rising beautifully above the foliage. 

 Delicate (Fig. 2) is a white flower with a light pink base to 

 the petals, much lighter than any we have hitherto seen. 

 Mauve Queen ( Fig. 3) is a remarkably coloured flower of a dull 

 mauve, deeper at the base of the petals. Excellent (Fig. 4) is 

 a very large flower, with deep carmine crimson base. Novi Ity 

 (Fig. 5) is ;i very remarkable flower ; the petals are white, with 

 the upper part light pink, and the l>a>e a very deep maroon- 

 crimson, a colour we have not as yet seen in these flowers; 

 while Firefly (Fig. 6) is the very deepest coloured Cyclamen 



