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respectable nurseryman, in order to have it according to name. I 
bought mine (true) of Messrs. Knight and Perry, but I have pur¬ 
chased inferior varieties elsewhere under this name, not at all the 
plant I now recommend. In consequence of this 1 was led to propa¬ 
gate the true sort, which I did by grafting it on D. pontica, in the 
manner in which Apples or Pears are worked. After they were 
grafted, they were placed in a close frame, whose temperature was 
about 65 deg.; here they remained about two months — April and 
May—and I found that all had “ taken” well. I pinched the shoots, 
so as to induce the plants to become bushy, and still kept them close 
and moist. By the end of the season I had formed them into com¬ 
pact small plants, and, after having been twice stopped, the latter 
growth was sufficiently ripened to produce flowers. 
After flowering they were placed near the glass, in the cool end 
of the greenhouse, but, as the season advanced, and they began to 
shew symptoms of growth, a portion of the plants was removed to 
one end, which I keep as warm as I conveniently can. Here they 
soon completed their first growth, and were stopped. They made 
a second growth, and were now good-sized plants in 9-inch pots, and 
so delightful was their fragrance during November, &c. that they 
were the especial favourites of my family and of all who approached 
them. A succession of bloom is easily kept up by preventing a por¬ 
tion of the plants from growing so early as the others, and by after¬ 
wards keeping them in a colder atmosphere ; and an extra stopping of 
the smaller plants will afford a still further succession. I manage by 
this means to have plants in flower from November to April. But it 
will be found necessary to watch the jdants that are intended for 
flowering in March, and to assist them to ripen their wood, otherwise 
you will be likely to meet with disappointment. 
Like other Daphnes, this delights in light, sandy loam. I use 
turfy loam, cut about two inches thick, and allowed to get well 
decomposed before it is used. To this I add about a third of fibrous 
peat and silver sand, and this mixture I find to answer perfectly. 
They will, however, be found to grow very well in turfy loam ren¬ 
dered light by the addition of silver sand. E. Ludlow. 
Bradley, October IQih. 
CYCLAMENS. 
Having in last Number directed attention to that really beautiful 
plant, the Persian Cyclamen, I now proceed to lay down a few simple 
rules for its cultivation, which, if duly followed, we shall, in two or 
three years, see dozens, I may say hundreds, of Cyclamens, where we 
now see only one. 
The Cyclamen being a fleshy bulb, and never throwing out any 
offsets, it can only be propagated from seed. Its natural time of 
flowering is February, March, and April; but it is capable, by the 
application of a little heat, of being brought into flower much ear- 
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