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Cyclamen (Improved seedling forms of C)

Improved seedling forms of C. persicum are now very numerous, and the cultivation of this choice, winter-flowering, greenhouse plant is being greatly extended. The flowers become richer and more varied in colour year by year. C. giganteum, a type with large flowers, produced some ten years since, has been greatly improved; the flowers are blush, rosy-blush, or purplish-rose. The most useful for greenhouse and conservatory decoration is a good strain of the ordinary type. The largest number of flowers are produced from single corms, and the colours are more rich and varied. They are pure white, of exquisite form, blush, rose, pink, rosy-red, and purple; and a form exhibited in 1887 was quite crimson. A new type, with peculiarly frilled petals, was introduced in the spring of that year. Some of the best in the various sections exhibited under names are as follow: DIXON HARTLAND, LORD HILLINGDON, MAJESTICUM, PRINCESS OF WALES, QUEEN OF CRIMSONS, and ROYAL JUBILEE.