PRIMULA. 



and so prolific a parent, that a large percentage of its children in nature, 

 as in the garden, show a greater or a less degree of alien blood. 



P. x Hoelscheri is an interesting, rare, and beautiful hybrid between 

 P. rosea and P. luteola. It has more the habit of the latter, but the 

 flowers are pink as in P. rosea, though with a yellow eye, and carried 

 in heads on taller stems above foliage that unfolds contemporaneously 

 and is more closely toothed. It should have the culture of P. luteola, 

 and be divided every other year to keep it in permanent condition. 

 And it has P. luteola' s value of flowering in full summer. 



P. Hooheri is a dainty small high-alpine from Sikkim, in the huge 

 and polymorphic group of P. petiolaris. It is, however, quite minute, 

 hardly an inch and a half tall, flower and tuft and all, while the 

 toothed little oval leaves are frail and smooth and powderless. And 

 whereas the less mountaineering species in this group make large 

 masses in rocks, or in the shadow and spray of waterfalls, these higher 

 developments are seen to prefer the shadow of pine and bamboo far 

 up on the mountain, like P. viscosa on the Col de la Croix. The 

 flowers of P. Hookeri are round and white, nestling among the leaves, 

 and making in their time the massed solid splendour of bloom so noted 

 in this group, where all the colony marches into blossom together 

 with the unanimity of a regiment, and marches out again, so that the 

 whole neighbourhood is either naked of everything but green, or else 

 at a day's notice imperialised in colour, and then in a week or two 

 dethroned into mere verdure again. 



P. Hornemanniana is a form of P.farinosa. 



P.xHugueninii, Briigger, was detected on the Parpaner Rothhorn 

 among its parents, P. glutinosa and P. integrifolia. The specimen was, 

 however, indiscreetly removed to a new home that it did not like, so 

 departed promptly to a better and final one. So that the record needs 

 confirming, and the hybrid describing. 



P. x Huteri is a name for one of the large sliding-scales of hybrids 

 between P. minima and P. glutinosa. This name applies to a form 

 standing near to P. minima, but with sticky blunt-toothed leaves and 

 broadly-ovate overlapping bracts, longer than the calyces. The 

 flowers are two or so to a short scape, not very full, and purple-red in 

 colour, with their face hardly as wide as the tube is long. This form 

 is a rare one, difficult to come across in culture, or anywhere else. 



P. imperialis is a stalwart giant of the Japonica-group that has 

 the romance of breaking far away from the neighbourhood of all its 

 race. It is the only Primula to trespass on the Equator, where at 

 some 9000 feet on Pangerango in Java it grows great and stately, 

 and yet is by no means indisposed to do so in England, even out of 



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