PRIM ULA LONGIFO'LIA. 
LONG-LEAVED PRIMROSE. 
Class. 
PENTANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
primulacea;. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Levant. 
9 inches. 
May. 
Perennial. 
in 1790. 
No. 612. 
The whole of the Primrose family carry with 
them so many pleasing associations, that the name 
Primula, from primus, a first flower of spring, may 
as applicably have arisen from primus, a first flow- 
er in our affections. None can bestow a thought 
on the primrose-decked banks, and the bright green 
meadows, strewed over with cowslips, unmoved by 
pleasureable recollections of spring. 
There’s not a heath, however rude, 
But hath some little flower, 
To brighten up its solitude, 
And seent the evening hour. 
I 
There’s not a heart, however cast 
By grief and sorrow down. 
But hath some memory of the past. 
To love and call its own. 
The Primula longifolia is one of those engaging 
species which are far best cultivated in pots, with 
the auriculas or alpine plants. Having a little pro- 
tection during the severity of winter, it will show 
itself in full beauty, although modestly, amongst 
those engaging subjects which are so impressively 
referred to by Dr. Duncan in his ‘^Philosophy of 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 1, 308. 
