While It is not the intention to publish anything in this magazine that 

 is misleading or unreliable, yet it must be remembered that the articles 

 published herein recite the experience and opinions of their writers, and this 

 fact must always be noted in estimating their practical value. 



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Primrose Auricula, Polyanthus, 



READ AT SUMMER MEETING BY MRS. D. W. C. RUFF, BALD EAGLE LAKE. 



For five or six years I have grown the primrose, the hardy 

 varieties, and most of them from seed, until my plants number 

 hundreds, making my border gay with their blossoms in late April 

 and May, a new variety blooming as late as June 27. 



Frances Edge Mcllvaine, of Pennsylvania, in "Women's 

 National Farm and Garden Magazine," asks this question : "Are 

 there not other gardeners who have heard the call of the prim- 

 roses? If they live in China or California, will they not make 

 the beginning of a Primrose Path, from east to west, so that our 

 spring may soon be gay with these new and wonderful varieties?" 

 Mrs. Mcllvaine's article on the primrose is so interesting! 



Another article is "The Charming Hardy Primroses," by 

 H. S. Adams, of Connecticut, in which he says, "Few realize 

 how easy it is to grow the hardy garden primroses, fewer still 

 have any idea of the variety and beauty that this race of plants 

 lend to the border in springtime." 



Our eastern friends agree on the charms of these plants but 

 do not know that we can be successful in growing them here in 

 Minnesota. They find them "delightfully interesting to cultivate, 

 and one could not wish for a longer lived plant for the middle 

 Atlantic States. Plant colonies have lived in a certain New Jer- 

 sey garden for over a hundred years, and in southern Pennsyl- 

 vania they flourish quite luxuriantly," still quoting from these 

 articles. 



These words apply to our plants. Perhaps the more tender 

 varieties may be difficult to raise, but not the varieties elatior, 

 polyanthus, veris, cowslip, vulgaris, the English primroses and 



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