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Illustrated Catalogue of Dutch Flower Roots 
Cyclamens. 
This beautiful class of Alpine plants is most admirably suited for Winter and Spring decoration of tho greenhouse, conservatory, 
or drawing-room, and should certainly be grown wherever a cool pit, frame, or greenhouse, or even a suitable window exists. 
The foliage of most of the varieties is beautifully marbled, the blooms of some are deliciously fragrant, whilst all are chaste and 
beautiful in form and habit of growth. The corms should be potted in September or as early as convenient in October, using pots 
of five inches in diameter, and a soil composed of rough 
sandy loam two parts, leaf-mould one part, and one part of 
well-decayed cow manure ; use the soil in a moderately moist 
condition, place the pots in a cool shady frame, and give 
but little water till growth commences ; give an abundance of 
air and light on all favourable occasions during the Spring 
growth, but with as little fluctuation of temperature as possible. 
AVhile the blooms are forming, water more freely — occasionally 
with w r eak liquid manure — and keep the foliage clean by 
syringing or washing with a soft brush. By placing a few 
in a gentle beat they will bloom earlier and the display may 
be prolonged. As soon as they have done blooming, remove 
them to a cool shady frame for the rest of the Summer, 
keeping them uniformly and moderately moist. Early in 
August, or sooner if they are seen to be forming young 
growths, let them be at once potted, and still maintain them 
in a mean temperature of about fifty-five degrees, affording 
gradually all the light possible, eventually, as the season 
merges into Autumn, removing them to a warm shelf and 
somewhat elevated in the greenhouse. The varieties of 
C. JSurnpieum and C. hederafolium are comparatively hardy, 
and will succeed well, planted in shady nooks of rock-work 
under overhanging evergreen shrubs, &c., but where planted 
in more exposed positions should have some slight protection 
in Winter. 
Coum. Crimson, sweet-scented 
Europseum. Rosy lilac ... 
,, album. White 
Hedersefolium rubrum. Rosy pink 
,, album. White ... 
per doz. each, 
s. d. s. d. 
.. 10 6 10 
..7 6 0 9 
..7 6 0 9 
.. 15 0 16 
.. 15 0 1 6 I 
per doz. 
s. d. 
Persicum. Pino plants in five-inch pots for 
blooming during the coming winter and 
spring... ... ... ... ... 15 0 
„ Strong young plants from single 
pots (Autumn sown, 1894) per 100, 30s. 5 0 
each, 
s. d. 
1 6 
0 6 
Lily of the Valley (Convallaria majalis). 
This beautiful and fragrant little gem is much too well known and highly popular to need any comment of ours. Planted out of 
doors it will succeed admirably on an}' shady border or spot, under or among trees, woodland walks, &c. A light rich loamy soil is 
the best; the roots should be planted about three inches deep. When grown in pots for forcing, pot them in thirty-two-sized pots 
filled to within about three and a half inches of the rim with rich loamy soil, upon which place the shoots or crowns closely, and then 
cover with about two inches of leaf-mould and sand, and give a good watering ; place on a shelf near the glass in a moist stove or forcing 
house, keep well supplied with moisture, and soon as the plants begin to show their flower-heads, remove to a warm greenhouse, keeping 
near the glass till the flowers begin to expand, when they should be gradually removed to a more shady place before removal to the 
drawing-room, &c. 
For early forcing single crowns of these should be planted about twelve in a five-inch pot, with the buds well above the surface. 
Cover the crowns with a little moss or an inverted flower pot and place them in a good heat of say 85 or 90 degrees ; water frequently with 
tepid water, and if judiciously looked after they will bloom in four or five weeks from time of potting. Good single crowns are much the 
best for this purpose ... ... ... ... Selected single crowns for forcing, per doz. Is.; per 100, 6s. 
