falamm jjci'SU'UlU. Natural Order: Primulacece—Primrose Family. 
ERSIA gave birth to this variety of the Cyclamen, which, 
^like the others of the same genus, is a bulbous (or, as some 
botanists call it, tuberous) plant, because the root or bulb is 
solid, like a turnip, while the true bulb is composed of layers, 
like the onion, or scales, like most lilies. In cultivation they 
^should not be too much watered; and when not in bloom, 
should have less. There are but few varieties, and it is difficult to 
make choice of one possessing advantages above another, except in 
time of flowering — a few blooming in winter, others in summer. The 
foliage of some is rich and varied; others send up their flowers from 
the bare bulb before the leaves appear. The Cyclamen Persicum 
blooms from January to April, the C. hederaffiolium from September 
< A^) c, to December, and the C. Neapolitanum from Julv to September; so 
with one of each, one could have blossoms almost the whole year. The word 
Cyclamen comes from the Greek word kuklos, a circle, because after the flower 
has withered and the seed pods appear, the stalk or stem begins to curl like the 
tendril of a vine, until the seed vessel is drawn down to and under the ground 
where it ripens. 
QTILL from the sweet confusion some new grace 
Blushed out by stealth and languished in her face. 
— Eusden. 
T)UT cyclamen I choose to give, 
Whose pale-white blossoms at the tip 
(All else as driven snow) are pink, 
And mind me of her perfect lips; 
Still, till this flower is kept and old, 
Its worth to love is yet untold. 
\/I Y lady comes at last, 
Timid and stepping fast, 
And hastening hither. 
With modest eyes downcast 
She comes! she’s here! she’s past! 
May heaven go with her! 
— William Makepeace Thackery. 
TTNTO the ground she cast her modest eye, 
^ And, ever and anon, with rosy red, 
The bashful blush her snowy cheeks did dye. —Spenser. 
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