PRIMULA. 



eminence lies in the fact that every part of the growth exhales a sweet- 

 ness as delicious as the lives of saints. 



P. x Goeblii (Kerner)=P. pubescens, Jacq., q.v. 



P. gracilenta is a dim and minute-flowered species of the Mus- 

 carioid group. It is now in cultivation, but not worthy of much 

 attention. 



P. grandis stands by itself. The foliage is heart-shaped, and of 

 an almost tropical splendour, like that of some Petasites, and well 

 worth planting for its own sake in some rich corner of the bog, where it 

 will have room to develop. The tall scapes shoot up high above these 

 in the summer, and then break, like a rocket, into a thick crowd of 

 trailing little sparks — long tubular small flowers in great numbers, 

 hanging and shooting from graceful long pedicels, the whole effect 

 being delicate, but the blossoms in themselves preposterously mean for 

 a stalwart of such size and pomposity of promise. It is a Cau- 

 casian species, and can easily be raised from seed ; or else the clumps 

 divided — a method most popular among Primulas, a race whose 

 seed is slow and uncertain of germination, even under conditions of 

 the most experienced care, and even when it is fresh ; but where the 

 established mat or clump seems positively to enjoy being divided in 

 the later summer, a fact which lends extra happiness to the long 

 summer hours spent upon the Grigna hi holidays from Campanula 

 Raineri, or on the Tombea in the few off-moments allowed by Daphne 

 petraea. 



P. graveolens. See under P. viscosa. 



P. Griffithii is a species in the troublesome but most beautiful 

 group of P. Roy'ei, which is a plant in the same kinship as P. 

 petiolaris. The real P. Griffithii remains quite unknown in cul- 

 tivation, and has suffered long, like its cousins, P. Gammieana 

 and P. Rnjlei, from confusion with the equally unknown but quite 

 remote P. obtusifolia of the Nivalis section. True P. Griffithii is 

 a glory of the Rhododendron-zone, standing close to P. Tanneri 

 and with much the same large and lovely flowers of lavender-blue, 

 though with the stalked oblong leaves and the general habit of 

 P. Roylei. 



P. groenlandica is a sub-species of P.farinosa. 



P. hakusanensis is a Japanese microform of P. cuneifolia. 



P. Harrissii comes from Chitral, and there stands between P. 

 elliptica and P. rosea in habit and character, having the brilliant and 

 violently-pink flowers of the latter. 



P. hazarica stands near P. Jaffireyana, from which, among other 

 points, it differs in having its adult leaves powdered underneath. Its 



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