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greenhouse or in a room for bringing on seeds in early 

 spring. 



Greenhouse Cyclamens are always useful, and should 

 be sown early in the year (February or March) in heat. 

 They should be grown on steadily under glass all the 

 summer, and kept well watered, then they will flower all 

 through the next winter. Mr. Thompson sells Cyclamen 

 seed of the sweet old-fashioned kind, which is rather diffi- 

 cult to get from other nurserymen, who all go in for the 

 giant sizes, and are now spoiling this lovely flower by 

 doubling it. It is best to grow them every year from seed ; 

 but if the old plants are sunk out of doors and kept moist 

 through the summer they flower very well. I have a 

 large old plant this winter in a hanging basket, and its 

 appearance is very satisfactory. Some gardeners dry the 

 bulbs on a greenhouse shelf ; that also answers. 



I would advise everyone to try and get the old Prince 

 of Orange Pelargonium. There is nothing like it, but it is 

 not easy to get, as gardeners do not understand that it 

 requires to be treated like an ordinary flowering Pelar- 

 gonium, rather than like the hardier sweet-leaved kind. 

 It wants well cutting back at the end of the summer, and 

 then growing on in rather more heat than the ordinary 

 sweet-leaved Pelargoniums. This little care and con- 

 stantly striking young plants in the summer will prevent 

 its dying out. Out of the fifteen to twenty kinds of sweet- 

 leaved Geraniums which I possess, I consider it the 

 most valuable and the best worth having. 



Cuttings of the best French Laurestinus, struck in 

 May and grown on to a small standard, make excellent 

 filling-up plants for a greenhouse now, and if judiciously 

 pruned back after flowering, and stood out in half -shade 

 all the summer, they are covered with large white 

 flowers at this time of year. When they get too large for 

 pots or tubs they can be planted out in shrubberies ; if a 



