PRIM'ULA ACAU'LIS, 
Var. plena-sulphurea. 
DOUBLE YELLOW PRIMROSE. 
Class. 
fentandrta. 
Natural Order. 
PRIMULACEjE. 
Order. 
MONOGVNIA. 
Garden 
variety. 
Height. 
Flowers 
Duration. 
3 inches. 
March, May. 
Perennial. 
Cultivated 
before 1596. 
No. 1 196. 
The derivation of Primula is known to our readers. 
It has been observed that old-fashioned flowers 
are now in request ; indeed, it does appear that 
many zealous florists are in search of the flowers of 
other days— of the days of Gerard and Parkinson, 
and such as graced the straight borders, and geome- 
trical gardens, ot learned merchants and physicians, 
whom Gerard so frequently and complimentarily 
names in his herbal. The late Dean of Manchester 
the Hon. and Kev. W. Herbert, collected with 
much assiduity, the bulbs which are mentioned by 
the abo\e authors, and many of them he rescued 
from obscurity. 
A few persons have brought together a numerous 
collection of the varieties of Primrose, Cowslip, and 
the Poly an thus, and lew there are who are aware of 
the singular montrosities that exist in this family, 
several of which are clearly described by Parkinson, 
in his Paradisus Terrestris. 
The very flower, which we now figure, was known 
to Parkinson, and a wood-cut of it occurs in the 
work just mentioned. In those days, two hundred 
and twenty years ago, printing was not executed with 
