The Garden Under Glass

THE BEST FLOWERING PLANTS 57 The various pottings will include moving them into 3-inch, 5-inch and eventually 7-inch pots, though none but plants well furnished with healthy growth will merit their size. If they are not worthy of this they may be flowered in the 6-inch. A somewhat close sandy soil is relished, and firm potting. Fibrous loam, flaky leaf-soil, broken cow manure, mushroom manure, brick dust, sand and Clay’s fertiliser will form a very good compost, which can be supplementet], when filled with roots, by frequent waterings with liquid cow manure and soot-water. Shading is another need of cyclamen which cannot be neglected. Heavy shading such as that afforded by arch-angel mats is not needed, but such as is given by tiffany or canvas. A cold frame admitting plenty of air will suit them well during the summer, giving them warmer con-ditions early in September. The flower buds may be pulled off until then but left to develop afterwards. While flowering, of course the plants will not be syringed, though for some time yet they will be benefited by damping between the pots. Cyclamen can be used as pot plants in rooms ; and as cut flowers they will last nearly a fortnight. But they nuist be pulled, not cut, from the plant, and after cutting o about half-an-inch of stem it should be split up for a f-an-inch so that water can be freely drawn up owards the flower. On account of its value in this respect, and for its beautiful symmetry of foliage—often eing richly marked with silver—the cyclamen ranks igli as a trseful greenhouse plant. When the corms are to be grown along a second time, e plants having borne their füll complement of flowers may be kept on the dry side in a cold frame. All withered owers should be pulled out, and also all leaves as they get of bad appearance. When young leaves are seen to be