234 ALPINES AND BOG-PLANTS 
amber flowers, I have realised, this year, the superior 
grace and beauty of two Auricula-forms, similis and 
Obristii, with long trumpets of a lovely rich yellow. And 
bellunensis is even richer in tone, of a yellow deepening 
towards orange—magnificent ; then among Viscosas comes 
the new apennina, a gem of gems, very rare and untried. 
But this is a fine thriver, nobly floriferous, with round 
heads, on dwarf stems, of very large, round, overlapping 
flowers, gently pink, with a dim white eye—more beautiful 
than even Cottia at its best. And then, again, I have 
just flowered a new cousin of viscosa collected by a 
neighbour, and quite the most gorgeous of its kind, con- 
quering the finest Viscosas, Ciliatas, and Helveticas ; this is 
a robust grower and very free, sending up stems of four or 
six inches, crowned with a domed cluster of large flowers 
—deep, dazzling purple, with a sharply defined white eye. 
So far as I know, quite imperfectly, the tangled race of 
Primula, this beauty has no name, and deserves a good one. 
And now I will go on to say that rosea is the love- 
liest thing for the bog that heart of man can desire, 
growing in dense old tufts, with their feet in running 
water—but it will do as well in damp ordinary soil—with 
those matchless carmine flowers in very early summer. 
Then comes pale snowy involucrata, sweet and holy little 
plant, with glossy rounded leaves, and gracious upshoot- 
ing stems, another glory of ‘the bog or damp rock-work ; 
Parryi, large, deep purple, splendid; Deorum, with 
smaller but no less handsome flowers (my plants have 
now taken to flowering freely—but in spring, not in late 
summer, as their native habit is); japonica, stalwart and 
coarse, best fitted for the copse and rough outlying 
stretches; new, gorgeous little biennial cockburninana, 
with flowers of ardent orange ; Stwarti, if you can get it, 
another giant species, with great heads of purple; 
farinosa, of course, with its big brother longiflora, and 
