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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
327 
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James en, raised by Mr. . msg ny 
s to-day at the head of the list 
burple- Bak ke. p 5 — heavy red iain, is at — 
head of its class, and has a record of a quarter of a 
are n 
ee w, I believe, getting a more 
vigorous t of yellow-ground Picotee, I * 
worked steadily, trying to improve this 
e and 
the list of varieties published from returns one by 
Fie, 43.— PRIMULA, 
certain members of the Carnation and Picotee Society 
= a liat of Wat ——_ twenty-four of 
hich have been raised by the 
e 
The superior 
in the tenth —— have done 
“Gos fa it as an exibition flow 
Cellent trait in the eat of the new 
er Pikas is ‘thie hardiness for culture 
a ain 
the winter very — and, if late i in — 
soil, produce better flowers and stronge 
e in pots. I tried them ‘ir n a vine- 
border which had been eae prepared to grow 
Vines well; and 75 bone-dust and 
mortar rabbish gave Were o some of the yellow- 
ground varieties I eel, never seen before, A great de deal 
under which the plants grow naturally, They are 
growing upon old me where pds derive 
n from 
dm ith humus from the decay of vege 
substances, The atems produced under these condi- 
tions are tough and wiry. W ere the first 
yellow variety came from to England, but as it is 
“THE LADY”: FLOWERS WHITE, STALKS BROWNISH-PURPLE, (see P. 326.) 
of success or failure in cultivating the yellow-ground 
Picotee depends upon the character of the soil in 
sin consideration m 
years ago ago, none know how it 
3 as 0 colout variation from 
ſrom 
the Siia sn hap ag ag 
er a well-known flower in 
Lene inthe eariy years of its coltare. aly Lady y 
„ a moe 
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