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that you say, I do not approve of. You advise the bulb not to be 
covered with soil. Now the cyclamen has a very large bulb, and very 
small fibres (see fig. 40) ; and if the bulb is not covered with earth, it 
will not get moisture enough. 
You are right in saying that the seedlings should not be transplanted 
till they are a year old; as, if moved before the 
first winter, they are sure to rot. The way I 
manage my seedlings is this-1 put a few of 
my best plants into the stove in February; and 
as soon as they show their blossoms, I restore 
them by degrees to their old quarters in the 
greenhouse. I then select the finest and most 
fragrant, (for they are not all fragrant alike,) and 
save their seeds, giving the plants plenty of air 
while the seeds are ripening. I sow the seed as 
soon as gathered in pans, which I set in the 
greenhouse; and I do not disturb the plants at 
all till the following May, when the bulbs will 
PERSIAN CYCLAMEN. 
be about as large as a hazel-nut. I have a 
bed prepared of fine mould, the surface of which I cover two inches 
deep with a compost of sifted loam, leaf-mould or rotten dung, sharp 
white sand, and peat. In this I plant the bulbs six inches apart and 
cover them with hand-glasses, which I keep close at night, but take 
off in the middle of the day. In July, the hand-glasses may be left off 
altogether, till the first week in September. When the greenhouse plants 
are taken in, the Cyclamens should be potted in small pots—sixties for the 
small bulbs, and forty-eights for the larger ones; and in these pots they 
should flower. There cannot be a greater mistake than potting Cyclamens 
in large pots, or in having more than one in a pot. I have had 
sixty-five blossoms expanded at one time on a two-year-old bulb in a 
48-pot. 
An Amateur Florist. 
Mortlake, 
March 6th, 1841. 
ERRATUM. 
In the list of plants in Maund’s Botanic Garden, p. 86, for Ledum 
read Sedum. 
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