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care, whether grown on rockwork or in pots. If any weeds or 

 coarse plants were allowed to vegetate over or near it, it would 

 of course suffer. 



PEIMTJLA GLUTINOSA. — Glutinous Primrose. 



A DISTINCT little Primrose, rare in .gardens, and growing abun- 

 dantly in peaty soil at elevations of 7000 or 8000 feet on mountains 

 near Gastein and Salzburg, in the Tyrol, and in Lower Austria. 

 The leaves are nearly strap-shaped, but widening towards the 

 top, where they are somewhat pointed and neatly and regu- 

 larly toothed. The stem is as long again as the leaves, growing 

 from three to five inches high, bearing from one to five blossoms, 

 which have been described to me by those who have seen it wild 

 in quantity as of a peculiar purplish mauve, with the divisions 

 rather deeply cleft. Suitable for rockwork or pots in moist 

 peaty or very sandy soil. 



PRIMULA INTEGEIFOLIA. — Entire-leaved Primrose. 



A MOST diminutive Primrose, easily recognised by its smooth, 

 shining, entire, ciliated leaves, lying quite close to the ground, 

 and in spring, when in bloom, by its handsome rose flowers, with 

 the lobes deeply divided, one to three flowers being borne on a 

 dwarf stem, which elevates them but little above the leaves, and 

 these flowers are often large enough to obscure the plant that 

 bears them. It is very common on the higher parts of the 

 Pyrenees, and I met with it in abundance in elevated pastures 

 in North Italy. Scores of plants sometimes grew together in 

 a sod, like Daisies, wherever there was a little bank or slope not 

 covered by grass ; ahd it was also plentiful in the grass, grow- 

 ing in a sandy loam. There should be no difficulty in growing 

 this plant on flat exposed parts of rockworks, the soil moist and 

 free, but firm. The best way would be to try and form a wide 

 tuft of it, by dotting from six to a dozen plants over one spot, 

 and, if in a dry district, scattering a little cocoa-fibre mixed 

 with sand between them, to prevent evaporation. This, or 

 stones, will help till the plants become established. It flowers 

 in early summer, and is increased by division and by seeds. 

 P. Candolleana is another name for this, and P. glaucescens is at 

 best but a variety of it. 



