Bunched wood in a friend's garden looks now as if a rare Eastern carpet 

 Primroses had been spread beneath the trees. Polyanthus and Primrose 

 and are growing there together, the latter with an especially fine 

 Polvanthus ran e f c ol urs white, pale and deep yellow, lilac, pink and 

 red through many shades to blue and red purple, each plant 

 forming a round tuft of bloom. With care one might have the 

 most beautiful and varied effect, blending one colour into 

 another and sorting out those which were not harmonious. 

 The whites and yellows might lead to the shades of blue and 

 blue purple. The pinks, and the numberless shades between them 

 and the red purples, could form a group by themselves. Among 

 Spring flowers they come certainly next to the Daffodils for use 

 and beauty and ease of growing. To get up a stock, buy or 

 beg seed of some good strain when it is ripe in June, sow it at 

 once either out of doors in a bed of fine soil and sand, or in 

 shallow boxes. Prick them out when big enough in a shady 

 place, and by the following Spring they will be flowering plants. 

 Or if a particular colour is wanted, as the seeds cannot be 

 depended on to come true, ask for some bits off a friend's plants 

 at the end of May. To grow them well, both Primroses and 

 Polyanthus should be taken up every year or two, according to 

 the soil and growth, directly the flowers have faded, the 

 tufts pulled to pieces and the crowns replanted separately. 

 In good soil the plants will increase so fast that many crowns 

 go to the waste-heap which might more profitably be given 

 away. If they are to be replanted in the same place in the wild 

 garden or wood, the ground must first be well dug and manured. 

 If wanted for Spring bedding, plant in some out-of-the-way 

 shady spot for the Summer. 



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