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NOTES AND GLEANINGS FROM FOREIGN EXCHANGES. 



Waltham White Primula. — Among the many forms of Primula sinensis 

 we now possess — single, double, and of various hues — there are none which 

 possess, in a greater degree than this, the features which are generally regarded 



Waltham White Pkimula. 



as indicating high quality, such as vigor of constitution, without coarseness, 

 together with size and substance in the flowers, and purity in their color, which 

 is a solid, unsullied white. The plant has a distinguishing peculiarity in the red 

 petioles of its deep green leaves, which serve to contrast all the more forcibly 

 with the pure coloring of the blossoms. The latter, which form collectively a 

 bluntly pyramidal mass, are upwards of two inches in diameter, and on account 

 of the substance continue for a long time in perfection ; they are opaque white, with 



