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Cyclameti) or Sow^bread, 



THERE are two kinds of this flower, the one with 

 the white flower, botanically called Cyclamen ver- 

 Tium, flore albo, C. B. and the other, which carries a 

 fmall red flower, called, by the botanifts, Cyclamen ver- 

 num minus f folio orbiculato inferne rubente, flore minore ru- 

 berrimoi Morif. hijl. Theie flowers are more tender 

 than the autumnal lorts ; and if they are not planted in 

 pots in winter, or in fpring, when they are in flower, 

 they fhould have forne covering or bell-glafs over them 

 in very fevere weather. They do very well to be plant- 

 ed in clumps of vernal flowers, and fhould not be re- 

 moved but once in two years ; and when their leaves 

 are faded, and their feeds are perfe6led, is the befl: time 

 to lift them ; I have often cut large roots from off their 

 eyes, keeping them out of the ground until the wound 

 was dry and found. I planted the root, as alfo that part 

 which I cut off, three inches below the furface, fur- 

 rounding their bulbs with dry fand, when they flowered 

 and profpered well. 



l"he two Pcrfuin kinds flower alfo in the fpring ; but 

 as they both require to be houfed in winter, I fliall treat 

 of them among the green-houfe plants, or under the ar- 

 ticle of Guernjcy Lillies. Their feeds mufl be fown in 

 boxes filled with rich fandy mould, as foon as they are 

 ripe, and require the fame culture as the Bulbous Jrisy 

 only they mufl be Hieltered in winter under a hot-bed 

 frame, or in the front of the green-houfe, where they 

 may have much air, but be prote6led from frofls ; and 

 in fix years after their fowing, their roots will fliew all 

 their beauties; obferve to fiiift them every two years into 

 frefh mould, and larger boxes, their roots growing faft. 



I chufe to few mofl: of the feeds of bulbs or of peren- 

 nial plants, which require to be protected in winter 

 from the inclemency of that feafon, in boxes, rather 

 than in pots, as they retain the cold and damps much 

 longer than the latter; your boxes muft refl on feet fix 

 inches high. 



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