ON CARNATION CULTURE. 63 



ARTICLE VII. 



ON THE CULTURE OF CYCLAMEN PERSICUM. 



BY X. Y. Z., CORNWALL. 



I understand it has not been usual to give this flower peat; I have found 

 it succeed well in an instance, which I mention, in case any of your 

 readers should like to follow it up. Early last spring I had a small 

 corn of the sweet-scented Persian Cyclamen given me; it was not 

 larger than the top of my thumb. I repotted it in half leaf mould 

 and half peat, with a little bone-dust, and kept it close to the glass in 

 a cool greenhouse on a small moveable shelf close to the top of a 

 window, where it had plenty of fre^h air. I watered it whenever I 

 found the soil looking at all dry, frequently twice a-day in the sum- 

 mer. The leaves formed larger than the -palm of my hand, of a very 

 fine dark colour. Eleven flowers are expanded, perfuming the house, 

 and there are nearly twenty more to expand. I conclude, for so small 

 a bulb, the growth must be remarkable. The leaves cover the pot 

 so as to hide the upper part of it, and I think no plant can repay the 

 care and attention bestowed upon it better than this. 



The graceful elegance of flower, the purity of its colour, and ex- 

 quisite scent, combining, with the absence of other greenhouse 

 flowers, to enhance the gratification of 



Cornwall, Feb. 2, 1842. X. Y. Z. 



ARTICLE VIII. 



ON CARNATION CULTURE. 



BY A JOURNEYMAN QARDKNKR. 



I for the first time (as a reader of your interesting and really useful 

 Floricultural Cabinet) have become possessed of the January 

 number; and as I feel great interest in reading every portion of it on 

 the science of gardening, I am induced to make a few remarks on a 

 subject circuitously handled in the periodical in question. The com- 

 parative value of gardening periodicals entirely depends on the sound 

 philosophy and practical experience of the contributors, that is, those 

 practical men who favour you, as well as others, with any useful in- 

 formation they may possess. I, as a very young and enthusiastic 

 person termed a Journeyman Gardener, cannot boast of much self- 



