CYC'LAMEN REPAN'DUM. 
EE P AND CYCLAMEN. 
Class. 
FENTANDR1A. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
PRIMCLACE.E. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Greece. 
4 inches. 
April, May. 
Perennial. 
in 1816. 
No. 1089. 
Cyclamen is founded on the Greek word kuklos, 
a circle. See No. 1065. 
Cyclamens, for reasons we know not, seem to meet 
with but little attention. It is true, they are not 
well suited for careless exposure, in severe winters ; 
although hederaefolium, is a native of Britain, and 
some other species are equally as hardy, or more 
so. Few plants are more beautiful, and few there 
are that better repay attentive culture. Increase, 
too, may be obtained, to any reasonable extent, from 
seeds ; still Cyclamens are not increased in any de- 
gree worth naming. Cultivators overlook the fact, 
that the seed should be sown as soon as ripe ; it 
never should be thoroughly dried; the plant itself 
asks, as plainly as plant can ask, for immediate 
sowing. The circling downwards of its peduncles, 
with the seed vessels, after flowering, to convey the 
seeds to the soil, should be our lesson. Here na- 
ture suffers not the seeds to dry, by suspension in 
the atmosphere ; but, by independent locomotion, 
the plant nestles up its brood, and, even previously 
to the maturity of its offspring, conveys them in her 
bosom to the earth. 
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