564! Cyclamen cbum, Bouvdrd'ia. triphylla^ ^ranthis hyemdlis. 



leaved kind, remains as B. triphylla. Both kinds are splen- 

 did, perhaps equally so ; but I suspect B. Jacquinn is the 

 more floriferous one. Some correspondent is solicited to 

 determine this. Directions for cultivating the bouvardias by 

 cuttings of their roots, and other valuable instructions for the 

 more satisfactory management of them, will be found in 

 pages 48. and 40. of the current volume, transcribed from the 

 Tra7isactio)is of the London Horticultural Society, 



Erdnthis hyemdlis, the Winter Aconite, merits all the regard 

 Mr. Housman bespeaks for it, as those who have seen it in 

 quantities will attest. I once saw a complete carpet of it 

 beneath a large deciduous tree, whose wide-spread arms, 

 naked when the Eranthis blossoms, while they afforded shel- 

 ter from early frosts, still admitted the sun's rays between 

 them. The innumerable golden blossoms glittering in the 

 sunshine, and contrasted with the bright green of the herbage 

 on which they were displayed, imparted an impressive and 

 exhilarating effect. This was witnessed about eight years ago 



at the late residence of the Rev. Roper, most probably 



the parsonage-house, at Abbot's Ripton, near Huntingdon. 

 This gentleman presented some ounces of the seeds, gathered 

 off the above plants, to the botanic garden at Bury St. Ed- 

 mund's, where also the Eranthis now abounds ; but where it 

 is disposed in little clusters at short distances, and alternately 

 with clusters of single and double snowdrops, and about 

 twenty kinds of crocus, along all the fronts and edgings of the 

 numerous borders which, in that garden, are appropriated to 

 the display of ornamental flowers. The numerous knots of 

 yellow supplied by the Eranthis in the sunny days of earliest 

 spring (and some such days are usual) glitter over, and in 

 conjunction with the contrasting colours of the soil, edgings, 

 and walks, checker the whole garden most lovelily. By 

 the time the Eranthis blossoms are passing away, the yellow 

 crocuses are expanding, to continue the variegation of the 

 scene ; and I must digress a moment to represent, and I do it 

 from experience of the effect, how inexpressibly splendid it 

 is possible to render a flower-garden in early spring by the 

 copious use of crocuses, by having the clusters numerous and 

 shortly distant from each other, by confining each cluster to 

 one colour and kind, and by composing the approximating 

 clusters of kinds whose respective colours are in strong con- 

 trast. On this subject, very valuable, it is hoped, will be found 

 the article on crocuses by Mr. Sabine (p. 41.), transcribed 

 from the Transactions of the London Horticultural Society. 



Eranthis hyemalis may be speedily and numerously increased 

 by dividing its tubers, and l3y sowing its seeds. The tubers 



