. CYCLAMEN. GLOXINIA. \:Lm-s. This class of beautiful variegated foliage plants, margined and delicately traced with various rich colors, and elegantly spotted and mottled, are exceedingly handsome when alone or intermingled with other plants. As a decorative plant, they are unequalled, for the greenhouse or conservatory in the summer months. They require a moist, warm temper- ature; great care must be taken in their earlier stages of growth, to prevent decay of the tubers, or damping otf. The tubers can be best preserved during the winter in charcoal (lust in a warm room, and must be
. CYCLAMEN. GLOXINIA. \:Lm-s. This class of beautiful variegated foliage plants, margined and delicately traced with various rich colors, and elegantly spotted and mottled, are exceedingly handsome when alone or intermingled with other plants. As a decorative plant, they are unequalled, for the greenhouse or conservatory in the summer months. They require a moist, warm temper- ature; great care must be taken in their earlier stages of growth, to prevent decay of the tubers, or damping otf. The tubers can be best preserved during the winter in charcoal (lust in a warm room, and must be started, in the spring, in a warm house or hot-bed with bottom heat; they also do well planted in a shady situation out of doors in June. 25 cents. $ per dozen. Argyrites. Small leaf, white and green spotted. Auber. Green, spotted white and pink. Baron Rothschild. Green, spotted and veined with orange crimson. Beethoven. White, mid-ribs rose. Belleymei. Green, mottled with white. Bico^or splendens. Deep crimson, with broad green margin. BoieSdieu. Orange crimson, green margin. Brongniarti. Large green and crimson. Due de Ratibon. Green, shaded white, with crimson spots. E. G. Henderson. Green, spotted rose. Enckei. Green, spotted with pink. Endlicherianum, Green, large rose centre. Hercules. Gray centre, and red spots. Houlletti. White, gray and green. Lamartine. Olive green, crimson spots. Maculata. Green, blotched white. Meyerbeer. White, mid-ribs red. Milton. Red veins, gray centre, crimson spots. Napoleon III. Green, crimson centre. Newmani. Green,spotted rose. Reine Victoria. Dark green, spotted with white and crimson. Rossini. Pale centre, pink ribs, red spots. Rubra maculata. Green, orange spots. Wighti. Light green, crimson and white A complete list will be found in Dreer's Garden Calendar. Few plants are more showy than the Cyclamen; blooming in the winter and early spring months in the greenhouse, the flowers being singular in shape, of various color
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