VIIL] PERSIANS' SUMMER TREATMENT 167 



between the netted roots of forest trees, as they do when 

 growing wild. They will frequently scatter their own seed, 

 and colonise their neighbourhood. The Ivy-leafed 

 Cyclamen is in full leaf all through the winter and early 

 spring, and the only thing which is necessary for its 

 successful culture is good drainage. It grows naturally 

 among broken rocks and stones, mixed with vegetable soil 

 and grit, but it is well to have the tuber buried under the 

 surface, and not exposed, as Persian Cyclamens are, which 

 grow in pots. 



As to these Persians from their seed pan to maturity, 

 during their first year of life, they should be grown as 

 quickly as possible. When done flowering in spring, the 

 best plan is to shake them out of their pots and plant 

 them in a north border in a rich mixture of fibrous earth 

 and some sand and leaf mould. Here they will grow 

 freely without further trouble all through the summer, and 

 need only be potted again in September, and kept in a cold 

 frame until the new blooms are showing themselves ; they 

 are then ready for the greenhouse. 



Tuberous-rooted Begonias are welcome additions to 

 our gardens, either as pot plants in the greenhouse or for 

 bedding use. It is best to grow the tubers in shallow 

 wooden boxes, or separately in good -sized thumb-pots, 

 plunged in a cooled hot-bed, until they have become 

 vigorous young plants, and they can then be either trans- 

 ferred to larger pots, or placed out in the open air in 

 groups or beds. 



