PRIMULA CHINENSIS. 



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They should have only a moderate supply of 

 water, applied in small quantities daily. If the 

 drainage is obstructed and the soil made too wet 

 the plant will become sickly. The foliage should 

 not be wet. 



The temperature of living rooms suits them. 



They are propagated from seeds, cuttings or by 

 dividing the plants as soon as they have done 

 flowering. Seeds sown in July, will make bloom- 

 ing plants in January. When four or five leaves 

 have developed transplant to 3-inch pots and shade 

 a few days. Plants should have the morning or 

 evening, but never the noonday sun. They will 

 even do well in north windows. Cuttings taken 

 from side shoots in May, will make blooming plants 

 for fall and winter. 



The pots of Primrose may be plunged out of 

 doors in June, in a shaded location and very spar- 

 ingly watered through the summer. Repot them 

 carefully in the fall, and shade a few days. They 

 should not be crowded together, or with other 

 plants. A window side-bracket is most suitable for 

 them. They are never infested with insects. The 

 single fringed varieties are best adapted to window 

 culture as they are more hardy than the double. 



VARIETIES OF THE PRIMULA SINEUSIS. 



Fimbriate alba, single white. 

 Fimbriata alba plena, double white, 



Fimbriata erecta superba alba-violasceus, pure white on opening, 

 changing to lilac with reel border, free bloomer. 



