The Garden Under Glass

THE BEST FLOWERING PLANTS 55 out, though less seldom used now than they were a decade or two ago. The Charming Cyclamen This plant is indispensable to the amateur’s greenhouse, especially as it fiowers perhaps more copiously than any other plant of its size. It shows itself best as a flowering plant when grown on a second year. During the first year the flowers will be larger but by no means so numerous, Diagram 17.—Cyclamen: 1. Seeds in pan an inch apart. 2. Seedlings pricked off. 3. Corin for growing along a second year. 4. Strong plant show-ing depth of potting. 5, Plants set on double staging. while during the second year the plant, if well grown, will carry from fifty to one hundred biooms at the one time, and even this number has often been exceeded. Cyclamens are somewhat stiff and heavy when arranged alone, but put up in a bank interspersed with maidenhair ferns and similar foliage they make a lovely show. It will be found that most books and writers advise sowingthe seeds in October. I find,however, that the best results accrue from a sowing in June. The seeds, which are best set an inch apart, take a considerable time to