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DOUBLE PEIMEOSE, 



Primula vulgaris var. 



the ridiculous title Primiiia 

 vulgaris var. you are to 

 understand that the plant 

 before you is a garden 

 variety of the common yel- 

 low primrose. That being 

 settled, we hereby record 

 that the variety figured is 

 in some gardens labelled 

 " Alfred Dumesnil ; " and 

 assuredly it deserves a label. 

 Primroses^ single and double, 

 are the most familiar of 

 garden flowers, but they are 

 coy beauties, and require 

 coaxing. The happy 9,p- 

 pearance of the primroses 

 in gardens will suggest to 

 the uninitiated that it is 

 a most easy matter to manage them. Well, so it is, when 

 the conditions are favourable, for, in fact, they manage 

 their own affairs with the most perfect success imaginable. 

 But they are, we repeat, coy beauties, and one reason 

 why you see them looking hajjpy in gardens is that when 



