CY'CLAMEN PER’SICUM. 
PEKSIAN CYCLAMEN. 
Class. 
PENTANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
PRIM PLACED* 
Order. 
MONOGYN I A. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Cyprus. 
6 inches. 
Feb to Apr. 
Perennial. 
in 1731. 
No. 1065. 
The Greek word, kuklos, signifying a circle, is 
generally admitted to have been the foundation of 
the word Cyclamen. Some writers consider that 
allusion was hereby intended to he made to the 
round tuberous roots and leaves ; others, that the 
coiled peduncles or fruit-stalks would have been 
the part alluded to. There can he no doubt, how- 
ever, but that all these circumstances were recog- 
nised, as uniting to render the name appropriate. 
Who is there amongst us that does not feel some 
pleasure kindled within him on passing the cottage 
window filled with growing flowers — a mark of 
happiness within — a gratification inexpensive and 
innocent, which the most apathetic and unculti- 
vated nature could scarcely pass unheeded. It 
may be feared that the beautiful Cyclamen Persi- 
cum is rarely seen amongst cottagers, on account 
of its management happening to vary in some 
degree from that of the generality of plants, yet it 
is not a single effort or idea more difficult of culture; 
indeed it is less so, when understood, than the 
commonest of plants, inasmuch as in a state of 
rest, it becomes a rigid temperance member. 
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