40 THE CANADIAN HORTICULTUIIIST. 



now water sufficiently to settle the soil, place them in a cool, shady 

 place, where they can be protected from frosts, if frosty nights should 

 €ome, and water very sparingly, only giving sufficient to keep the soil 

 damp. When the weatlier becomes so cool that it is prudent to take 

 them in, put them in the window where they can have plenty of air 

 and light, but where the thermometer will not indicate a temperature 

 above fifty degrees, and continue to water them sparingly. In water- 

 ing do not pour the water over the corm, but on to the soil below. 

 Some plaee the pots in saucers, and give water when needed by pouring 

 it into the saucers. The great secret of success lies in keeping the 

 plants in a cool temperature until they begin to bloom, and not allowing 

 the soil to become overcharged with water. When they begin to bloom 

 they may be allowed a temperature as high as sixty-five°, and will 

 require to be watered more freely. 



The leaves of Cyclamen Persicum are heart shaped, toothed on the 

 edge, dark green in color with marblings of gray. The flowers are 

 raised above the foliage on long foot stalks, as shown in the engraving, 

 and are either white with a rosy purple centre, or rosy lilac throughout, 

 with a deepened shade at the centre. They are very free bloomers, 

 the individual blooms continue a long time, and tlie succession is kept 

 lip for months. Mr. Vick says of them, very truly, in his catalogue, 

 *'They are particularly adapted for window culture, and will give more 

 flowers with less trouble than almost any ]ilant with which we are 

 acquainted." 



co:n^ovee's colossal asparagus. 



We have not been able to see any marked superiority in the Cono- 

 ver's Colossal Asparagus over that in use long before Conover was born» 

 Some of the best samples of this new sort were sent to the exhibition 

 of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society a few years ago, but they 

 were badly beaten by the common sort, which was both larger and 

 heavier, though it laid no claim to being coloss.al. Cultivation will 

 make colossal buds, neglect will make but pigmies, in this as in every- 

 thing elsa 



