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winds, is the most suitable place for Crinums. 
Cyclamen. — Generally speaking the hardy Cycla- 
men are classed among Alpine and Rock plants, 
and certainly their dainty little blossoms and 
handsomely-marbled foliage befit them for the 
cosiest little pockets and ledges in the lower 
parts of the Rockery, but to reveal their full charm 
and win the fullest admiration their merits entitle 
them to, the very best situation for a colony of 
hardy Cyclamen is a cool, moist, leafy bed under 
the grateful shade of woodland trees. Here, with 
perhaps Snowdrops and Wood Anemones as com- 
panions in Spring, Cypripedium spectabile and 
Orchis in variety during Summer, and the rare but 
sweetly charming little Leucojum autumnale later 
on, we may have one or another species of hardy 
Cyclamen in bloom practically throughout the 
year, whilst their silver-and-green foliage is an 
endless delight. Seed raising is a means, but rather 
a slow one, of securing stock, but a quicker and 
not extravagant method is to obtain imported corms 
in a dormant state. The corms, when they arrive, 
are generally in a very dry condition, and it is 
inadvisable to commit them straightway to the 
ground. 
The better plan is first to lay them in shallow 
trays of cocoa-nut fibre, covering with the material 
and keeping them tolerably moist and in a cold 
frame. As soon as growth has well commenced 
pot singly, using a soil made up of one-half sifted 
