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The Canadian Horticulturist. 



FLOWERS. 



SOME PRIMULAS. 



PRIMULA OBCONICA. 



THIS new Primrose from Japan, is quite distinct from any Primrose in 

 cultivation, being a perpetual bloomer, at least for nine months in 

 the year. The quantity of bloom is something extraordinary. A 

 plant in a seven-inch pot last winter had seventy-five spikes of bloom on it 

 at one time. It requires a much larger pot to flower in than the Chinese 



Fig. 19. — Primula Obconica. 



Primrose, the last will do very well in a five-inch pot, but Primula obconica 

 requires a six or seven-inch pot to grow it to perfection. It will become a 

 great lavorite when it is better known, not only on account of its great 

 beauty as a decorative plant, but its commercial value as a plant for cut 



