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shade, but not under the drop of other plants or trees. It 

 would be better to place them in the open ground. 



PRIMROSE FAMILY. 



(PRIMULA.) 



" I know not what it was that made 



My heart to love thee so ; 

 For though all gentle things to me 



Were dear, long, long ago, 

 There was no bird upon the bough, 



No wild-flower on the lea, 

 No twinkling star, no running brook, 



I loved so much as thee ; 

 I watched thy coming every spring, 

 And hailed thee as a living thing ! " 



This pretty little flower of poetry, the Primrose, is a 

 native of England, and is found blooming in the greatest 

 perfection in copses, in the margin of brooks, lanes, and 

 other shady situations, during the months of March and 

 April. The leaves are ovate, toothed, rugose, villous 

 beneath ; umbels radical ; flower stalks as long as the 

 leaves ; corolla flat. This tribe is generally considered 

 to consist of the Polyanthus, Primrose. Cowslip, and Ox- 

 lip, all of which are cultivated as florist's flowers. How 

 these four can be considered as the same family, I am 

 at a loss to tell, for the Polyanthus appears as distinct 



