Plate 276. 
PRIMULA CORTUSOEDES AM (ENA, var. ALBA. 
This is another of the very beautiful varieties of Primula for 
which we are indebted to the enterprise of Mr. Veitch,* it 
having been sent home by his son, Mr. J. Gould Veitch, from 
Japan, of which island it is supposed, by some, to be a native ; 
but in the c Botanical Magazine,’ where the dark-coloured 
variety is figured (t. 5528), the late Sir William Hooker says, 
after mentioning that Dr. Asa Gray, in his collections of 
Williams and Thomson, gives it as an inhabitant of Simoda, 
adds,—“ but as we have never received it in any of the nume¬ 
rous collections of specimens we have received from Japan, is 
it not likely, since the Japanese are great gardeners, they may 
have imported it from Siberia, as they appear to have done 
with Primula sinensis ? 
The variety there referred to we have ourselves figured 
(p. 249); and there can be no doubt that the estimate formed 
of it by Sir W. Hooker is correct, “ that it is a great acquisition 
to European gardens;” and we think the same may be said 
of that which we now figure. The flowers are somewhat 
pendulous, and thereby display the beautiful magenta-coloured 
under-surface of the petals, which are themselves white. The 
plant is of very easy cultivation; indeed, we have seen it re¬ 
commended as desirable for open-sheltered places in the open 
border, either in or out of pots ; “ if in pots, they should be 
only plunged during their period of bloom; and when done 
blooming they should be removed to an east or open border, 
where they will not receive much sun from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 
This is a good place to grow them in, namely, a cool border, 
* Owing to the smallness of the stock, we are informed that this plant 
cannot be distributed for some time. 
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