PRIMULA. 



make it happy with us. It is a magnificent species, suggesting a 

 great violet-blue Polyanthus in general effect. 



P. Palinuri is the only other species in the group of P. auricula. 

 It likes a warm sheltered slope in good loam, with peat and sand to 

 help it ; and must have ample room to ramble here and there with its 

 stout woody rhizomes, which break into large rosettes of large light- 

 green leaves, toothed at the edge, powderless, and rather flabby. The 

 flower-stems are not produced until the specimen is of good age and 

 extent ; they are six inches to a foot high, carrying a one-sided and 

 very well-furnished bunch of deep-yellow trumpets, rather squeezed 

 in outline and effect for the general stateliness of the plant, but 

 sweet as cowslips. P. Palinuri is a most rare species, confined to 

 a few limestone cliffs in the province of Salerno, where it lies baked 

 and dust-covered in the fine dry silt of the grottoes, after the precise 

 fashion of P. flava in cooler hills ; it is, however, of perfect hardiness, 

 and may either be raised from seed, or multiplied by cutting off 

 rooting bits of rhizome. 



P. pannonica. See under P. officinalis. 



P. pantlingii is only a form of P. Dickieana, and its flowers greatly 

 vary from cream, through yellows, to lilac and violet. The leaves 

 are very small, and the 6-inch scape carries only about a couple of 

 blossoms. It lives here and there beside the mountain-streams of 

 Sikkim, growing in the wettest places only, and often hi the water 

 itself. 



P. Parryi is the glory of all American Primroses, a superb plant in 

 the group of P. nivalis, introduced into cultivation in 1875, and 

 bracketed in beauty with P. japonica, by which, however, it has been 

 far outstripped in the race for popularity, as P. Parryi shares the home- 

 sickness so common in the Nivalis group. It should have a rich and 

 propitious mixture of peat and loam and sand, deep and well-drained, 

 but kept running underground with water all the growing season 

 (though none should be allowed to linger round the neck of the crown, 

 and the supply should be rigidly turned off at the end of the summer). 

 Thus it will not so much miss the moist banks and overhanging lips 

 of the rills by which it grows, high hi the Rockies, from Colorado 

 northward, through Utah and Nevada, to Idaho and Arizona. Here 

 it makes clumps of narrow-oblong dark foliage, fleshy and almost 

 entire, from which rise stout stems of a foot or 18 inches at their best, 

 swinging out a one-sided crowded bunch of brilliant big rose-purple 

 flowers with a golden eye and a displeasing odour. 



P. Partschiana is the third member of the strange Carolinella 

 group. The whole growth is at first clothed in rusty down which 



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