Mftj- 23, 1872. ] 



JOUENAL OF HOETICIJLTUEE AND COTTAGE GAEDENER. 



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The seetls will vegetate freely in a common greenhouse or turfy loam and one of leaf mould, with a little sand if necessary, 



frame, and the treatment the}- reiiuire is much the same as Place the hoses close to the glass in a cold frame or pit. 



would he recommended for ordinary Primroses. When the Should this he in summer and the weather hot, it would be as 



young seedliDgs are old enough to handle, they should he well to turn the hack of the frame to the south, eo that the 



pricked out into boxes or pans, allowing a distance of 2 J inches glass might face the north ; if this cannot be done shade slightly. 



Iietween each plant. The compost used should bo three parts ^"\'lIen the plants are well established in the boxes, those which 



nve iiifpnded for pnr cuhnre-iiould be poued, one plant iu a 

 birge (50 or <;mall 4S.pnt, and those intended for the open 

 i orders should be planted nut at once. 



The plant has proved itself to be quite liardy in the neigh- 

 bourhood of London as far as my experience of the last two 

 winters soe?, eousequently it will prove a very beautiful and 

 interesting"feature in the ordinary herbaceous border. Before 

 planting it would be well to remove a portion of .the old and 

 probably exhausted soil to the depth of a foot ; replace it with 

 a few sliovelsful of loam and decayed manure, and plant in the 



fresh compost. To have this gorgeous Primula m full leanlv 

 it ought, however, to be cultivated iu pots, and protected by^, 

 "lass screen. I have seen it in'flower out of doors planted in 

 the open border, but not with more th.an one tier of flowers ex- 

 panded at a time. The flowers seem to suffer very muc^ from 

 the vicissitudes of our climate in May'-; under glass they are 



" For pot culture I would recommend a compost of good turfy 

 loam, deeaved manure, and a small portion of leaf mould. 

 Duru3g theWu-e period of their growth the plants should bo 



