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the early summer, and perhaps in severe frost, Amaryllis, Brunsvigia, 
Buphane, Nerine, Hmmanthus, and all the allied genera of African bulbs, 
as well as the South American, would certainly succeed better than with 
any other treatment. I believe that not only those, but even some of the 
Tropical Crinums, would succeed better so than in a stove, and probably 
many shrubs, which might not be expected to live there. The advantage of 
a verandah or pent covering, however rude, on the north side of a wall for 
the protection of half-hardy plants, such as Camellia Japonica, the Asiatic 
species of Rhododendron, &c., is not sufficiently known. It is the 
excitement occasioned by the access of the sun that makes such plants 
liable to injury, and a south aspect, whether in summer or winter, is pre¬ 
judicial to them. I believe that the covering of a pent roof in a northern 
aspect, without any flue, is more congenial to those plants than a green¬ 
house, with caution to prevent any heavy rain or snow from being driven 
upon them by a strong north wind, which is easily done by hanging mats 
along in such an emergency. ( Herbert’s Amaryllidacece .) 
QUERIES AND ANSWERS. 
THE PERSIAN CYCLAMEN. 
Having read your first number with great interest, and seeing you 
admit of queries, I trouble you with some remarks on the cyclamens, at 
the same time begging you to assist me in treating their cultivation. I 
have from childhood been an admirer of all the species of cyclamen, 
whether of the neat little round-leaved, the hardy autumnal, or European, 
the sweet-scented hedersefolium, or the more elegant, and I believe the 
most delicate, the lovely Persian cyclamen, with its beautiful pink and 
white flower rising from the mass of richly tinted leaves; and I never 
fail, on visiting the Horticultural Gardens at Chiswick, to cast an eager 
glance on the lovely row that graces the left hand side of the entrance. 
But I see with regret that many of the varieties have of late years dis¬ 
appeared from this sheltered spot. The early season at which they 
usually flower, and their compact form, not to mention their surpassing 
loveliness, render them a desirable object for the sitting-room. I have 
now before me (February 10th) a pot containing several bulbs, with a 
profusion of deep, rich pink flowers, of C. coum y the round-leaved species, 
which is perfectly hardy. After flowering, I remove the pot to the open 
border, where I let it remain plunged without any care till late in the 
