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For table decoration and as cut flowers discretion will be, 

 of course, necessary, according as the flowers are required for 

 use by day or under artificial light, In the latter case certain 



Fig. 19.— Leaf of Chinese Primula. (From the Gardeners' Chronicle.) 



varieties, especially those of the carmine and scarlet types, are 

 infinitely more showy. 



The uses, moreover, to which the Chinese Primula may be 

 put depend greatly upon the climate. In our own country it 



