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It is believed that it has no injurious effect upon the Grape 
crop; indeed, according to Dr. Earlow, it is perhaps beneficial, for 
he says, “ Our native Vines have a luxuriant growth of leaves, and 
the danger is that, in our short summers, the grapes will not be 
sufficiently exposed to the sun to ripen ; ” he then proceeds to show 
that the Peronospora arrives at the happiest moment, to shrivel up 
the leaves so that the direct rays of the sun may reach the grapes. 
Should the Eungus be introduced into Europe, however, he thinks 
that the case might be different, and attacking the Vines earlier, 
prove in a moister atmosphere as disastrous as the Phylloxera. At 
any rate, we can assure him that we are by no means anxious to 
try the experiment. 
XII. On the Cyclamen. By the Editor. 
[Bead at Society’s Meeting, 19th February, 1878.] 
I have to-day to address you on the Cyclamen, a truly florist’s 
flower, but at the same time one that has long been known and 
appreciated, when by no means so attractive as it is in our day., 
as our Spring Shows abundantly testify. 
Two of the hardy species, Cyclamen Coum and liedercefolium , 
are mentioned as having been in cultivation in Gerard’s garden so 
long ago as 1596 ; so at least says Mr. Daydon Jackson in his 
identification of Gerard’s species. C. persicum seems to have 
been introduced by Sibthorp, in 1731, from the Isle of Cyprus. 
In Curtis’ Botanical Magazine, which was commenced in 1790, 
the fourth plate in the first volume is a very fair representation of 
C. Coum, which is said to be found growing in woods and shady 
places in Italy and Germany; it is also noted that it is a very 
early flowerer. The plate in Curtis represents a tiny little plant 
with small rosy flowers on rosy peduncles, leaves round and 
unvariegated. The original C. persicum, though more beautiful 
with its pure delicate petals and graceful habit, is a long way 
behind the magnificent specimens we have so often seen in recent 
years, to which I shall allude presently. 
As a genus, the Cyclamen is confined to the countries 
bodering on the Mediterranean—S. Europe, W. Asia, and X. 
Africa. It can scarcely be considered an English plant, though it 
