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at a height of 12,000 feet. The plant is about four 

 inches high, and the flowers, which are very large, are 

 mauve with white eye ; the leaves are powdered ; it has 

 the peculiarity of forming some plants of abnormally large 

 size. It may be propagated from seed or by division ; 

 some of the seeds are slow in germinating, but that is 

 nothing fresh in Primulas. Winteri was introduced 

 by Mr. Gill of Tremough, Penryn, Cornwall, and first 

 shown in 1911. A singular Primula is Maximowiczii, 

 a plant from northern China, with red, drooping, re- 

 curved flowers, almost like a small Martagon Lily. 

 Cockburniana, with salmon-buff flowers in slender sprays 

 on g-inch stems in late spring, aroused some interest 

 on its introduction, but it is doubtful whether it will 

 hold the place it was given. It has, however, as mentioned 

 above, been crossed with pulverulenta ; and two separate 

 crosses have given the hybrids respectively called Unique 

 and Lissadell Hybrid, which bear their brownish red 

 flowers in whorls, in the same way as Japonica. Other 

 hybrids wfll probably be forthcoming, and if they are 

 fertile, like Unique, will be valuable plants. Pulveru- 

 lenta is a very robust species of the same habit as 

 Japonica ; it differs in having paler flowers than the 

 typical Japonica and powdered stems ; moreover it is 

 a taller, stronger plant ; it blooms in late spring and likes 

 moist soil. Forresti is a beautiful orange-yellow Chinese 

 species of Polyanthus habit, blooming in spring, and 

 pleasantly perfumed. Malacoides bears its pink flowers 

 in spring on a long, loose spike, differing, therefore, from 

 any of the preceding ; it is not hardy, and should be 

 grown under glass for winter-blooming. Littoniana 

 (syn. Viali) produces a long flower stem, and with the 

 calyces of the unexpanded flowers bright red it is pretty 

 even before it comes into full bloom ; the flowers proper 



