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far superior +0 myself. The Primroses of Messrs. Veitch came either 
from Mr. Wilson, or from Mr. Dean at Ealing, who raised a ' true blue/ 
I have never sent any to Messrs. Veitch. Mr. Wilson produced his 
strain from seedlings of Scott Wilson and he again selected seed from 
these and so got his blue race. Whether what I presently cultivate 
are superior I am unable to say because I was not for some years on a 
spring visit to England, but I cannot imagine that any purer blues 
can be seen than among mine. What, now, is to be done is the com- 
pletion and production of forms close to a circle and the watching of 
the new breaks. 
" What I alluded to as a new break is an indigo-coloured flower, 
striking by the eye which is brownish yellow and very small. . . 
