The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 388
to my brother gardeners, or considered a pre-sumption on my part, or a digression from my particular de-partment in the profession. The method generally pursued with this handsome bulb isto suffer it to flower in the green-house, and, at the latter endof the summer and autumn months, it is usually… … On the Culture of Cyclamen Persicum. 387 is frequently found as dry as possible. It then undergoes thesame treatment as in the preceding year, after a renovation bymoisture, heat, &c. Nature having performed its office, it isagain assigned to the drying system. Being extremely partial to this…