HARDY CYCLAMEN. 



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X. — C. CYPRINUM. 



Blooms, October ; white with bright purple spot at base ; 

 long narrow petals with ear-like protruberances at base. 

 Scent, unrecorded. 



Leaves, contemp. with flowers ; broad ; marbled with white 

 above ; red-purple beneath ; edge irregularly toothed, but not 

 lobed. 



Tuber, roots all round the sides. 

 Habitat, the Island of Cyprus. 



A very near relative of ncapolitanum, differing chiefly in the 

 unlobed leaves and long narrow petals or calyx-segments. 



In conclusion, I will only add that in preparing this paper I 

 have been greatly indebted to Mr. J. G. Baker, Mr. Samuel 

 Jennings, Mr. George Paul, and my assistant secretary, Mr. 

 Weathers : what merits it may possess are theirs, but for the 

 mistakes, and they are doubtless many, I can at least claim the 

 entire copyright myself. I only hope I may have succeeded in 

 interesting some of our "Hardy" enthusiasts in the genus 

 Cyclamen, and that they will in future bestow upon it the atten- 

 tion and the love which it so well deserves, and which it will, I 

 am sure, so amply and generously repay. 



Discussion. 



Mr. James Walker, of Ham Common, said he did not at 

 first intend to make any remarks on the papers which had been 

 read, as he was what might be called a broken-down Cyclamen- 

 grower. At one time he thought he could grow a few of these 

 plants, but now he knew he could not. He had had no 

 experience whatever in the cultivation of the hardy species, and 

 therefore could not say anything about them. As to Mr. Warren's 

 advice that the seed, after being gathered, should be exposed to 

 the air for a considerable length of time, he had, on the contrary, 

 always found that the sooner the seed was sown after being ripe, 

 the better and stronger were the seedlings. It would, of course, 

 he said, be quite possible to keep the seed in an atmosphere the 

 conditions of which would be such that the seed would germinate 

 freely after some length of time, but it should not be exposed to 

 the sun. That was his experience. As to keeping the seeds in 

 a temperature of 70° Fahr. after being sown, that he had 



