P, JULIAE and HYBRID JULIANA FORMS 
The Caucasus is one of the most floral-rich territories in the 
world and holds, along with the European Alps and the Himalayas 
and Chinese Alps, the greatest concentration of Primulas. But un- 
like the small, rock loving Primulas of the Alps and the usually 
large, lush growing ones of Asia, those of the Caucasus bear a singu- 
lar resemblance to and affinity with the spring flowering Primroses of 

Juliana Pink, available in 1947 
England, and consequently hybridize with them readily. The first 
P. Juliae was taken from under a Caucasian waterfall in 1900 by a 
Russian botanist, and in 1910 plants were sent to the Botanic Garden 
at Oxford. In less than forty years countless hybrids between 
P. Juliae and the Primrose of England, the Primrose of the Near 
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