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If smaller sprays of bloom are wanted, then the five 



or seven larger buds 

 should be "taken" (a, c, 

 d), etc., and the smaller 

 (e, K) removed. 



By so regulating the 

 buds on each branch of 

 the plant, flowers may 

 be produced, larger or 

 smaller, according to taste. 

 As a rule, "terminal 

 buds" form in September 

 or early October. 



CHAPTER VIII 



CYCLAMENS AND TUBEROUS BEGONIAS 



IT is strange that the hardy Cyclamen is seldom seen 

 amongst our winter and spring flowers. People are 

 perhaps so much accustomed to admire the bright blooms 

 of the Persian Cyclamen in greenhouses that they scarcely 

 think of Cyclamens as hardy flowers, and yet there are 

 kinds just as hardy, and just as easily grown, as our 

 Primroses, wherever they can enjoy the shade of low 

 bushes or rocks, and where they may nestle in security 



