This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V25", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
This little sketch of Cyclamens was from a group allowed to run wild among the grass under some trees in a garden at Tooting. Right bravely for years they had held their way among the grass and weeds and carpeted the ground with their glossy leaves, and flowered freely in winter and early spring. Although mostly a South European, North African and Western Asiatic family, various species grow on the hills, and they are with very few exceptions thoroughly hardy. There should be no difficulty in naturalizing cyclamens in copses and half shady places, where the surface vegetation is not too rank. We believe they will grow in many of the places for which people so often seek for " plants that will grow under trees." The mossy floor of many a grove where grass will not grow may be enamelled with the Ivy-leaved Cyclamen, with C. Europaeum, C. vernum, and, in fact, most of the species and varieties, with the exception of the Persian cyclamen, so well known as a spring-flowering greenhouse plant, and which is not hardy everywhere. - Garden.
 
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