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THE FLOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ May, 
After flowering, cut down tlie stems, plunge tlie pots in any sheltered corner, 
close together, and cover them up with straw and mats in frosty weather. These 
old plants should furnish very good cuttings in April, at which time they should 
be taken off about 3 in. long, inserted three in a 3-in. pot, potted off singly 
when rooted, and again submitted to the foregoing routine of culture. The 
old plants may be divided, and planted in the open borders. 
The following is a short list of a few that will not disappoint the grower, 
although some are very old sorts :—Alma, Antonelli, Beauty, Bella Donna, 
Boadicea, Beverley, Cardinal Wiseman, Dr. Rosas,.Duchess of Buckingham, Edwin 
Landseer, Empress of India, Eve, Golden Beverley, Golden Hermine, Golden 
Queen of England, Hermine, Iona, Julie Lagravere, Leda, Little Harry, Mrs. 
Haliburton, Celestial, Sam Slick, Mrs. Dix, Venus, White Christine,—Fleur de 
Marie, Margaret.—Adonis, Aureole, Aiirore Boreale, Berrol, Bijou d’Horticulture, 
Bob, Drin Drin, Graziella, Madame Eugene Domage, Modele, Salamon.—Astrea, 
Calliope, Cedo Nulli, Golden Cedo Nulli, Lilac Cedo Nulli.—Rose Trevenna, 
White Trevenna. These are all proved and well-known sorts, and may safely 
be depended upon.— John Cox, Bedleaf. 
THE CYCLAMEN. 
S OjME of the new forms of Cyclamen persicum that have appeared show 
considerable progress, both in the direction of depth of colour, and of 
stoutness and width in the floral segments. The marked advance made 
^ in the former direction is ■well shown in C. persicum Tcermesinum, a variety 
with a rich hue of carmine-rose on the flowers, and in the latter, in C. 
persicum giganteum, to both which the Floral Committee have recently awarded 
a First-Class Certificate. The former novelty was shown by Mr. Welch, of 
Hillingdon, the latter by Mr. Edmonds, of Hayes, who with Mr. Stevens, of 
Ealing, have both brought out very fine strains of the Cyclamen^ sho’wing 
much variation in the particular hues of the deep-coloured flowers. 
I fancy that, as a general rule, the Cyclamen is not well managed, neither is 
it sufficiently recognized, as it should be, as a flower to bloom in November, 
December, and January, instead of in April. There is no doubt but that the 
Cyclamen has been, and still is, sadly mismanaged. The old barbarous practice 
of systematic neglect, misnamed the resting process, to which these beauti¬ 
ful plants are often subjected, is altogether wrong, and should be abolished. 
Death, or imperfect development, as surely follows on the old plan as a free 
development and numerous blossoms follow the more sensible method. 
Seed should be sown as soon as ripe—generally in July—in pots of suitable 
soil, and placed in an old cucumber or melon frame, with a temperature of about 
65° or thereabouts. The first leaf will appear in about six weeks, and when 
about one inch in length, the plants should be transplanted into pans, and kept in 
the pit, shading them from the glaring sun by the use of some material that will 
not exclude too much light, while it effectually screens them. 
