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Andromeda racemosa, Paeonia tenuifolia. 
-- axillaris and Catesbae. Rosa muscosa and varieties, with 
speciosa. 
Arbutus unedo. 
Syringa persica. 
- alba, 
vulgaris purpurea. 
Paeonia Moutan 
papaveracea 
albi flora 
other species and varieties. 
Daphne Mezereum, 
- -- rubra, 
- - alba. 
cneorum, 
neapolitana, 
collina. 
F. F. Ashford. 
ARTICLE XI. 
ON THE CULTURE OF THE CYCLAMEN PERSICUM. 
BY T. B. C. 
I do not remember ever to have met with, (but perhaps you may 
attribute this to a very limited research) any specific directions for 
the treatment of that beautiful plant, the Cyclamen persicum. I 
believe, certainly, no article on its culture, has appeared in any of 
the published numbers of the Horticultural Register . 
Being myself an admirer of this plant, not .only on account of its 
general elegance of growth, but from its producing its flowers at a 
very early season, which thrive and retain their luxuriance even in 
the atmosphere of a room ; I have turned my attention to its gene¬ 
ral culture. 
The plan of treatment pursued by me, I have much pleasure in 
communicating. 
The Cyclamen persicum, begins to shew its flower early in the 
year, and may be said to be in beauty throughout the months of 
March and April; as soon as the flowers fade and droop, the pots 
containing the plants are placed on their sides, (as a precaution 
against their being watered) in a corner of the green-house. In Au¬ 
gust, the roots are taken out of the pots, and the earth adhering to 
them being first carefully shaken off, they are planted in an open, 
but sheltered border of the garden, where they are allowed to remain 
until the cold forebodes frost; they are then taken up, the fibres be¬ 
ing carefully preserved, and are put into pots proportioned to the 
size of each root; the crown of the plant is well covered with earth, 
and the compost used, consists of two parts, leaf-mould, one ditto 
