o8 journal of the royal horticultural society. 



PRIMULA CONFERENCE. 

 Wednesday, April 16, 1913. 

 Chairman: Sir J. T. D. Llewelyn, Bart., V.M.H. 

 Programme. 

 Morning Session — 11 a.m. to i p.m. 

 Papers. 



' European Primulas.' Dr. John MacWatt. 



'Primula Hybrids in Nature.' Mr. R. Farrer, F.R.H.S. 



Afternoon Session — 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. 

 Papers. 



' Chinese and other Primulas.' Professor I. Bayley Balfour, 

 F.R.S., V.M.H. , Regius Keeper, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. 



' Himalayan Primulas.' Mr. W. G. Craib, M.A., Assistant for 

 India, Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 



' Primulas in the Garden.' Miss Gertrude Jekyll, F.R.H.S. 



Morning Session. 



In opening the proceedings, the Chairman said : It was in the year 

 1886 that the last Primula Conference organized under the auspices 

 of the Royal Horticultural Society took place, and now it has been 

 felt that after, the lapse of time we have learned so very much more 

 of the genus Primula that it is desirable that our observations and 

 the records of our observations should be brought to a new Con- 

 ference. At the time of the former Conference there were many men 

 whose names are familiar in our ears as household words, men well 

 known in the botanical and horticultural world, who took a part with 

 us on that occasion, but who, alas ! are with us no longer now — men 

 like Sir Joseph Hooker, Mr. Shirley Hibberd, Dr. Maxwell 

 Masters, Sir Michael Foster, the Rev. F. D. Horner, James 

 Douglas, Mr. Churchill, and many others. And there is an 

 advantage in knowing that that Conference was held under the 

 auspices and by the assistance of men of that standing, for I think 

 not only has the knowledge but the love of the genus Primula grown 

 very much since that day. This justifies the action of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society to-day in asking that there should be a fresh 

 Conference on the subject we have in hand. No doubt a very great 

 advance has been made by the discovery of new species, more especially 

 in China, I suppose, but also in our knowledge of the natural hybrids 



