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growth that the Androsaces speedily exhaust the area in which their roots 

 spread, and having done so, haste — 



u To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new." 



Milton, Lyeidas, t. 193. 

 Whether this is not an indication of value to the cultivator I leave to others 

 who have had more experience to decide. My own want of success with these 

 plants cannot in fairness be attributed only to neglect of that indication. 



Fig. 16.— primula capitata. 

 Showing long rhizome giving off numerous horizontal branches. 

 Perennials. 



In these, as for annuals, there is need for daily suppbes during the growing 

 period, and further, there is the necessity for replenishing the stores. It is 



