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THE FLOEISX AND POMOLOGIST. 



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recalls exactly tlie form of its flowers, wliicli, in tlieir aspect, are analogous to 

 those of tlie double-flowered varieties of Primrose, with which, in the spring, one 

 makes such pretty edgings. The characters of P. primuhvjlorus may be thus 

 summed up : — It is a bushy, branched shrub, with short ramifications ; its leaves 

 are glabrous, regularly oval-cordiform, of a deep green, dentate, with sharp 

 spinescent teeth, having a buUate surface, and reticulate prominent veins ; its 

 flowers are odoriferous, semi-double, of a fine white, with regularly-rounded 

 petals. 



This is a very pretty plant, especially remarkable for the regularity of it 



PlirLADBLPHUS C0R0NARH7S PRIMUL^FLORUS. 



flowers, which, never thoroughly opening, rather recall those of certain species of 

 liammculus when they begin to expand. It is unnecessary to add that it is 

 hardy, and that its culture and multiplication are identical with those of the 

 common PhiladelpliKS coronarms. — T. M. 



GAEDEN LILIES.— Chapter III. 



E now come to the group Eidirion or the Funnel-flowered Lilies, 

 consisting of species in which the perianth is distinctly funnel-shaped, 

 the segments broadest above the middle and spreading only towards the 

 points, while the filaments and style lie parallel or sub-parallel with 



