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Cyclamen, 
\ Cyclamen erstcum. Narurar Orver: Primulacee—Primrose Family. 
4 like the others of the same genus, is a bulbous (or, as some 
# botanists call it, tuberous) plant, because the root or bulb is 
* solid, like a turnip, while the true bulb is composed of layers, 
ty like the onion, or scales, like most lilies. In cultivation they 
rap "sshould have less. There are but few varieties, and it is difficult to 
£ of make choice of one possessing advantages above another, except in 
don time of flowering—a few blooming in winter, others in summer. The 
Wt" foliage of some is rich and varied; others send up their flowers from 
rf ’ the bare bulb before the leaves appear. The Cyclamen Persicum 
GS, blooms from January to April, the C. hederafolium from September 
<6) to December, and the C. Neapolitanum from July to September; so 
with one of each, one could have blossoms almost the whole year. The word 
Cyclamen comes from the Greek word kwklos, a circle, because after the flower 
has withered and the seed pods appear, the stalk or stem begins to curl like the 
tendril of a vine, until the seed vessel is drawn down to and under the ground 
where it ripens. 
Ditfidente. 
eee from the swéet confusion some new grace 
Blushed out by stealth and languished in her face. 
—Eusden. 
UT cyclamen I choose to give, Y lady comes at last, 
Whose pale-white blossoms at the tips Timid and stepping fast, 
(All else as driven snow) are pink, And hastening hither. 
And mind me of her perfect lips; With modest eyes downcast 
Still, till this flower is kept and old, She comes! she’s here! she’s past! 
Its worth to love is yet untold. May heaven go with her! 
William Makepeace Thackery. 
NTO the ground she cast her modest. eye, 
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And, ever and anon, with rosy red, 
i The bashful blush her snowy cheeks did dye. — Spenser. ! 
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