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On the Culture of Cyclamen Persicum. 



In France the peach and nectarine are most commonly 

 worked on almond stocks, and both there and in Germany they 

 are found to do well on such stocks when the soil is deep and 

 dry. When the soil is not deep, or where it is wet bottomed, 

 they prefer the damson or Julien plum stocks. Apricots are 

 also frequently grafted on almond stocks, and found to do 

 quite well. See the Bon Jardinier for 1826, articles Pecker, 

 Amandier, and Abricotier. If we might suggest an opinion as 

 to the cause of the failure of Mr. Anderson's trees, we should 

 say, — as the soil is loose and deep, might it not be owing to 

 the wet bottom ? They are within a few yards of the Thames, 

 which rises within two feet of the ground's surface every spring 

 tide. — Cond. 



Art. VI. On the Culture of the Cyclamen Persicum. (fig. 79.) 

 By Mr. John Wilmot, F.H.S. Isleworth. 



Sir, 



This beautiful bulb appears to have been introduced 

 about the year 1731 from the island of 

 Cyprus ; and though it has been nearly a 

 century in our possession, yet the general 

 culture certainly cannot be sufficiently 

 understood, as we seldom find it in! 

 any thing like perfection, being gene- 

 rally a weak plant, both in leaf and 

 flower, with seldom more than twenty 

 blossoms at a time on the bulb. My ob- 

 ject for thus addressing you is to see it 

 more extensively cultivated ; and as you 

 profess, in your Magazine, the ornamental 

 as well as the useful part of horticulture, 

 I trust that the observations I am about 

 to make relative to the culture of this elegant plant may not 

 be unacceptable to my brother gardeners, or considered a pre- 

 sumption on my part, or a digression from my particular de- 

 partment in the profession. 



The method generally pursued with this handsome bulb is 

 to suffer it to flower in the green-house, and, at the latter end 

 of the summer and autumn months, it is usually put away 

 in some dry place, and frequently the pots turned on one side 

 in a dry state, together with the Ixias, Amaryllises, &c. and not 

 suffered to vegetate until the following spring, when the bulb 



