Aotcs and Gltaii-Jius. 



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NOTES AND GLEANINGS FROM FOREIGN EXCHANGES. 



Primula I'EDEMONTANa. — We have to t'.onk the Messrs. Backhouse & Son, 

 of York, for the opportunity of illustrating the beautiful Alpine Primrose, which 

 forms the subject of this note ; and which was introduced In- them from the 

 Graian Alps of Piedmont. 



The plants form a close rosette of obovate. sinuatelv-toothed leaves, from 

 among which rise the flower-scapes to the height of from five to six inches, 

 bearing clusters of about seven or eight flowers, of a -pleasing bright purplish or 

 magenta rose, sometimes with a white or pale-colored ring around the throat, 



PRI.MLLA P2DE.MO.NT.\.S A. 



and measuring an inch across the limb of the corolla, the lobes of which arj 

 obcordate. These flowers are produced in spring. 



We learn from Mr. Backhouse, who has closely studied this race of plants, 

 that the alliance of P. pedcmontana is with P. viscosa and P. hit cgr (folia, from 

 both of which, however, it conspicuously differs. "It is easy of cultivation in a 

 mixture of loam and peat, interspersed with bits of stone." 



M., in Florist and Poniolo^isf. 



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