Plate 256 . 
PRIMULA INTERMEDIA. 
We last month figured one of the Japanese varieties of Pri¬ 
mula cortusoides , which have been recently introduced by Mr. 
Veitch ; we now give the figure of a more humble but equally 
pretty member of the same family, which is shortly to be sent 
out by Mr. Wm. Bull, of Chelsea, and for which he has re¬ 
ceived a first-class certificate. 
All the members of this family, from their early-flowering 
habit, are favourites with all lovers of flowers,—the pretty 
wild Primrose is hailed as the harbinger of that season to 
which all look with pleasure, while few florists’ flowers have 
been cultivated with greater zeal or are more highly prized 
than the Auricula. Those persons whose stoves, orchid-houses, 
and conservatories can be kept gay from one year’s end to the 
other, can little appreciate the pleasure with which a culti¬ 
vator of these flowers looks forward to their opening blooms 
through the long and dreary winter; they have had to watch 
over perhaps a few frames and pots without a flow T er to gladden 
them, but when spring returns and the Pansy, or the Auricula, 
or the early-flowering herbaceous plant begins to show its 
blooms, there is a zest added to their enjoyment which in vain 
the wealthier horticulturist looks for; hence plants like the 
one now figured will be valued by many whose means do not 
admit of their looking to a stove or greenhouse for their en¬ 
joyment. 
Primula intermedia was raised by Mr. Fullar, of the Exotic 
Nursery, Headingley, and has from him passed into the hands 
of Mr. Wm. Bull, who has distributed so many good plants. 
It will be seen to have a good deal of resemblance to a small- 
flowered Auricula, both in the truss, which is, however, com- 
