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2. Like all other bulbs of a similar habit, they require to be kept perfectly free 
from water d uring the time they remain dormant. 
3. At the end of September, or beginning of October, always take the bulbs out 
of the pots, and replant them in fresh soil. 
4. After being planted in fresh soil, set them in a cool frame, and shelter them 
from frosts, till they have filled their pots with young roots ; then remove them to 
the greenhouse or other warm situation, to stand for flowering. 
Most of the species will succeed, if planted in a border composed of light soil, 
close under a south wall, especially under the wall of a stove or greenhouse. It 
is, however, necessary in this case to plant the bulbs six inches, or more, deep, that 
no ordinary frost can injure them. And during severe weather, they should be 
covered with a little dry litter or other materials. 
They, however, flower the strongest when planted in a pit where they can be 
covered with lights and mats in frosty weather, and exposed to the air in fine and 
mild days. They can, also, in such situations, be readily protected from heavy 
rains by placing on the glasses. This effectually prevents the rotting of the bulbs, 
which is often the case when they are planted out of doors ; but for convenience at 
the time of flowering, no system equals growing them in pots, because they can be 
removed to any situation the cultivator may choose. 
Occasionally they ripen seeds, by which they may be propagated ; but chiefly 
they are increased by offsets from the bulbs. 
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Cyclobothra alba. — “ This is a Californian bulbous plant, introduced by the 
Horticultural Society, in whose Transactions it, and the C. pulchella , have lately 
been published by Mr. Bentham. They are probably quite as hardy as tulips, like 
which they should be treated ; unless it should prove that their bulbs are capable of 
living’ all the year round in the open ground, — a property we can hardly anticipate^ 
considering how dry and mild a climate is that of California compared with 
England. In the garden of the Horticultural Society, they have been planted in the 
open border, in a light loamy soil, in a cold frame, where they grew with consi- 
derable vigour, flowered beautifully, and produced abundance of seed .” — Botanical 
Register. 
Cyclobothra pulchella. — “ We doubt whether this plant likes the climate 
of England so well as the last ; for, although it grew with apparently perfect 
health, flowered freely, and ripened its seed, under the same circumstances as 
C. alba , yet the specimens which were produced could not be compared with the 
wild ones sent home by Mr. Douglas, for beauty. The latter consist of many- 
flowered and rather dense corymbs of flowers ; but the cultivated plant hardly 
exceeded C. alba in the number of its blossoms.”-— Lindl. in Botanical Register . 
