Plate 3. 
VARIETIES OE PERSIAN CYCLAMEN. 
Cyclamen persicum , vars. 
There are few more useful plants for the decoration of green¬ 
houses and drawing-room conservatories in the spring months 
than the well-known Cyclamen persicum , for in addition to a re¬ 
markably neat habit of growth, and a free-blooming disposition, 
its elegantly marbled foliage is at all times ornamental, and 
its flowers are not only beautiful in form and colour, but pos¬ 
sess the additional recommendation of being most deliciously 
fragrant. 
The Cyclamen is one of those plants which are most success¬ 
fully propagated by means of seed. The Messrs. E. G. Hen¬ 
derson and Son, of the Wellington Hoad Nursery, St. John’s 
Wood, who have paid particular attention to it and have raised 
large numbers from seed, have been enabled to select from 
their stock several distinct forms, affording a very pleasing di¬ 
versity of colour in a flower which, on other grounds, is so de¬ 
servedly popular. Some of these are represented in our Plate, 
and others we hope to illustrate on a future occasion. The pe¬ 
culiarities of form and colouring developed in the seedlings, 
are not so strongly fixed as to be perpetuated with certainty 
Plate 3.— Cyclamen persicum, varieties :—• 
Eig. 1. rubrum : flowers large, segments broad, obtuse, If incb long, clear 
Magenta-red or reddish rose-purple, with a purplish-red blotch at the 
eye or base of the segments. 
Eig. 2. marginatum : flowers rather large, segments broad, obtuse, If inch 
long, blush-white, of a more decided blush at the tips, the eye bright 
rose-crimson. 
Eig. 3. marginatum purpureum : flowers resembling those of margi¬ 
natum^ but the eye or blotch is purple. 
Eig. 4. pallidum : flowers large, the segments broadish obtuse, If inch 
long, white with a pale-rose or deep blush-coloured eye. 
