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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



December, 1917 



Why Not Trees | 

 For Christmas? 



What more appropriate gift for some of your 

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My Experience with Cyclamen 

 in the House 



A POT of beautiful Cyclamen in full bloom 

 was brought me last winter. It was my 

 first experience in caring for that flower in 

 windows, and it soon became a most inter- 

 esting one. I observed that it was not fitted 

 for the varying temperature of a house where 

 one wants plenty of open windows in mid- 

 winter, for with a puff of cold air from a win- 

 dow away would go the Cyclamen flowers, or 

 buds, wilting as though hot water had been 

 poured on them, so I found that the plant 

 could not be moved about with impunity. 



When the first flower slipped off and left 

 its seed pod, curving like the head of a graceful 

 young cobra, the plant became more inter- 

 esting; when the second one left its seed pod 

 too, interest increased, for the two pods curled 

 in toward each other and formed an arch 

 over the entire plant. I decided to let them 

 ripen, knowing nothing then of Cyclamen cul- 

 ture, but soon one of the stems wilted just 

 below the pod, and I pinched it off" at the root, 

 and left the other curving over the entire 

 plant, alone. It took weeks and weeks for 

 that one lonesome pod to ripen, and I hus- 

 banded the plant with infinite care lest a draft 

 should wilt the stem before the perfection of 

 the seed. The plant seemed to be giving all 

 its strength to that one pod, for never a new 

 leaf came. 



Finally, after patient waiting and watching, 

 I discovered a very slight break in the extreme 

 end of the pod, and lest it should burst and 

 the seed be scattered and lost, I tied a soft 

 white tissue paper over it, and waited until the 

 stem wilted of its own accord; and then 

 waited yet a little longer, and pinched it off 

 the stem, and opening the pod found twenty- 

 one reddish seeds, which I planted at once in a 

 shallow pot with broken things in the bottom 

 for drainage. There was about an inch of soil 

 over the drainage, and a covering of perhaps a 

 quarter of an inch over the seeds. A square 

 of glass covered the pot, and it was put in a 

 curtained window free from drafts. The old 

 plant now began to put up vigorous leaves, 

 twice as large and higher than previous ones, 

 with very pretty markings and almost like 

 wax in texture. 



It took the seeds weeks to come up when 

 I removed the glass. The seeds were planted 

 on March 5th, and on June 5th there was one 

 just sending its strangely curved first leaf 

 through the soil, though there were later fif- 

 teen out of twenty-one seeds. As I write 

 there are yet five seeds unaccounted for, but as 

 long as there is soil there is hope that they will 

 come forth. Several — in fact almost all that 

 have a well defined first leaf also have put up a 

 second, which varies from whitish to green and 

 reddish in color, and no two have leafed the 

 same either in manner or in shape and color- 

 ing, all varying from sharp points to blunt 

 points and from dark green with faint mark- 

 ings to light green. The markings vary, too, 

 some run with the veinings of the leaf and 

 others follow the shape. I shall have a win- 

 dow box of Cyclamen from those now growing. 



Altogether, I have never had so peculiar an 

 interest in growing any plant, and I have 

 window-cultured plants for many years for my 

 own and my family's pleasure. The color of 

 the flower on the parent plant was white with 

 faint rose base. 



And now the parent plant is sending up an 

 infinite number of flower buds, and the leafage 

 is becoming shorter and smaller. 



Brookline, Mass. E. von R. Hovey. 



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