PRIM ULA CILIATA. 
CILIATED SWISS PRIMROSE. 
Class. 
PENTANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
PRIMULACE^. 
Native of | Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration, 
Introduced 
Switzerld. 3 inches. 
April, May. 
Perennial. 
in 1700. 
No. 907. 
Primula, see No. 156, for its meaning. 
It is always a pleasing labour to us to introduce 
to our readers desirable and thoroughly hardy 
species of plants, wherewith they may ornament 
their open borders, mounds, and fancy parterres, 
in full assurance that they will grow and luxu- 
riate, regardless of the nicer attentions demanded 
by such exotics as require to be expensively kept 
in an artificial or greenhouse temperature, and in 
perpetual danger of death, from excess of nursing. 
In the Primula family, many are proof against 
cold, but pure air is important. 
Of the hardy Primula ciliata two varieties are 
known in cultivation, that which we have now fig- 
ured, and one with much paler flowers. Both are 
showy, but our darker flowering one is the most 
robust plant, and blossoms the most freely. It is 
nearly related to decora, villosa, helvetica, and 
nivalis ; and like these species, very ornamental 
for the front of beds, especially when kept in 
tolerably large patches. It loves a rich soil, and 
open situation ; and should be divided early in 
autumn, in preference to spring. 
