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first three stages of growth, Clibran & Sons' fumigating rolls 

 are used, for the plants are so lightly potted that if dipped in 

 any solution the soil would fall away. In the last two stages 

 George's tobacco juice is used, and the solution is made in the 

 proportion of four parts of soft water to one of tobacco juice. 



HARDY CYCLAMEN. 



By the Rev. W. Wilks, M.A. 



[Bead January 13, 1891.] 



Let me preface the few remarks which I am going to make 

 by disclaiming any intention, or indeed ability, to add anything 

 to the knowledge and experience of those who already grow 

 Hardy Cyclamen. I speak rather to those of our Fellows who, 

 though lovers of hardy gardening, have for one reason or another 

 not yet turned their attention to these most captivating and easily 

 cultivated little plants. 



Hardy Cyclamen. — And first let me assure you that there 

 are several varieties of perfectly hardy Cyclamen. I do not, of 

 course, mean that you can grow the ordinary greenhouse Cycla- 

 men, C. pcrsicum, out of doors, though, perhaps, even that may 

 be accomplished in favoured spots in Devonshire and Wales. 

 But C. persicum has several unassuming little country cousins 

 which will well stand the rigours of even such a truly arctic 

 winter as that through which we are now passing — less showy 

 these little country cousins may be than their magnificent 

 relative, but not one whit less beautiful, and, from their more 

 natural outdoor cultivation, obviously far more interesting. 



Name. — With the great and happy revival which is now 

 taking place amongst us of hardy gardening, there is expressed on 

 all sides a desire for English names to plants, and many sweet 

 old-fashioned ones have been reclaimed from the diaries and 

 jottings of our grandparents of those much bepraised days of good 

 Queen Anne. I yield to none in my love of a sweet-sounding 

 and descriptive English name, but I venture to think we may go 

 too far in this resuscitation, this digging up of old names, for 

 some of them were by no means sweet or savoury, and some few 

 of the modern ones, albeit Latinised or Hellenised, are better. 



