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tliis plant have the white margin of farinose powder round the edge 

 of the leaf ; some have much more cut leaves than the others, such 

 as the Tulloch Castle variety ; others again have much darker 

 purple flowers, as in cceridea, and the variety grandiflora has much 

 larger flowers than in the type ; they are, however, all easily grown, 

 and are desirable. 



P. japonica, a plant introduced several years ago with a great 

 character, does not come up to the original drawings and descriptions, 

 from which we expected a plant with from three to five whorls of 

 flowers in bloom at the same time. But the lower whorls die off 

 before the upper ones are expanded ; the flower varies from 

 crimson to white, and is often red and white striped. P. 

 Inteola, a hardy free flowering plant, should be in every garden; 

 it is a strong grower, floAver stems about 2 feet long, with an 

 umbel of fine yellow flowers at top. It does well in the ordinary herb- 

 aceous borders. P. grandis, of comparatively recent inti"oduction, 

 is a strong grower, and dies quite down ; it is scarcely worth grow- 

 ing from an ornamental point of view, being more curious than 

 beautiful, having a great number of small insignificant yellow 

 tubular-shaped flowers hanging from tlie top of a very long flower 

 stem nearly 3 feet high. P. capitata, a recent reintroduction of a 

 high order, has a reticulated leaf, the flower stem white with 

 powder, and a round head of purple flowers which open continu- 

 ously for a long period ; the peculiarity of this species is that it 

 flowers in autumn long after all the other Primulas are over. 



P. obconica is a new species only introduced last year, wliich 

 I have not yet flowered ; it has, however, been flowered in many 

 places, and grows well out of doors in summer. Mr Brockbank 

 mentions having plants in flower which were only sown in March 

 of this year ; he describes it as being very floriferous, and an abund- 

 ant seeder, having a pale pink flower like P. sine^isis on its first 

 introduction. P. floribunda, nice for planting in the rockery in 

 summer, is not hardy, and requires to be taken into the house in 

 winter ; it has pretty yellow flowers, and continues in flower a long 

 time. P. siiffrufescens, a new species from California, flov/ered this 

 summer in a friend's garden, and has beautiful rose-coloured flowers, 

 somewhat in appearance like those of rospci, with three or four 

 flowers at the top of spike ; the leaves are in a whorl, thick and 

 firm, dentate somewhat in the way of minima but much more 

 elongate. 



P. sapphifina, also a new species, flowered in the Botanic Garden, 

 a beautiful little plant, with reticulated leaves, and pretty dark blue 

 flowers. 



Primida SiehoJiJi, or P. cortiimides amcena, a fine showy plant, 



