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Good-sized, blooming bulbs may be obtained at any 

 green-house, for from fifty cents to one dollar each for the 

 more common varieties. This bulb is particularly adapted 

 for window culture, and will give more flowers, with less 

 trouble, and occupying less space, than any flower we are 

 acquainted with. The more common varieties are C. Per- 

 sicum, white, tipped with rich, rosy purple ; C. Persicum 

 album, pure white ; C. punctatum, resembling Persicum. 

 All these flower from January to March. C. Europceum, 

 pinkish purple ; C. Europceum album, pure white ; C. 

 hederafolium, very large, rosy purple, a splendid variety. 

 All these bloom from October to January. 



