among the most easily grown, and as you cultivate and bring 
them into the perfection of flower your pleasure will increase 

WORK AT BARNHAVEN 
Our aim has been to develop and produce Primroses of 
beauty, variety and vitality for garden use in all parts of the 
United States and Canada. We have selected and bred our 
strain of Polyanthus, Acaulis and Auriculas with garden 
needs in mind. We have striven for good stout stalks, large 
full umbels, and heavy texture for greater beauty and endur- 
ance during winter and spring storms. Clear colors, new 
colors, widest variety of colors, and the stabilizing and fixing 
of colors have occupied our attention. Although we have 
not given size—which is the easiest factor to obtain—first 
consideration, superbly large blossoms are the rule. They 
are sometimes considered too large by those with more class- 
ical tastes. We visualize the perfect garden flower as we 
continue to apply known principles of selection and hybridiz- 
ing to long-established thoroughbred plants. The present 
unexcelled Primroses are the result. 
In keeping with our resolve to produce the hardiest, 
sturdiest plants possible, plants which will come through all 
kinds of weather, we fertilize only moderately with slow- 
acting organic plant food and grow all plants and seedlings 
outdoors the year round where they are subjected to sub- 
freezing temperatures. The only protection given is during 
dry, snowless freeze-ups at which time the plants are watered 
and coated with ice to reduce drying effects of high winds 
and frozen ground. 
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