122 THE TREE PROPAGATOR AND PLANTER. 



The Solanum (Solanacece). 



The Solanums have now become quite prominent 

 articles of commerce as decorative subjects, and many 

 pretty dwarf varieties are the result of hybridization. 

 I find it a useful plan to put the young plants out into 

 a good bed in a sunny spot in the month of May. If 

 they are struck from cuttings in the month of August, 

 and potted off into small 60-size pots, the points of the 

 leaders being nipped out, and then having a bed of 

 decayed manure and fine earth ready, they are turned 

 out in May into the ground one foot apart, and kept 

 well supplied with water, and frequently stopped 

 through the early summer months, very fine and bushy 

 plants full of berries will be had by the early autumn. 

 Then a good soaking with water should be given them, 

 and they may be safely taken up with a good ball of 

 earth, potted with fine sandy peat and dung, well 

 watered, and housed ; they will then be none the worse 

 for the moving if this is carefully done. The points of 

 the young growth will strike freely in fine peat, in a 

 mild heat. 



By Seed. — Sow the seed in the spring, in pots of 

 oeat and old dung, or maiden loam and fine leaf-mould, 

 m heat. Plant out as soon as large enough, or put 

 into pots according to the object in view : small pots 

 if for reserve stock, and large pots if the plants are for 

 quick-fruiting ones. 



The Cyclamen {Primulacece). 



This genus is a great favourite, being a very free 

 and pretty flowerer. It is, generally speaking, easy to 

 grow, and is used for early and late flowering, and 

 serves well for cut blooms. There is, however, but one 

 method of propagating it, and that is by seed, which, 

 however, will not always answer for perpetuating the 

 particular species or variety, for, like all the genus, it 

 will most probably vary more or less in the seedlings 

 from the parent plant. 



