Hardy ‘Asiatic Primula 
Plants 
for 
1946 and 1947 
Shipped from February rae March and April, and during 
September and October. 
“Suddenly we stepped into a perfect garden of flowers, 
glowing with all colours of the rainbow. A stream from a 
hanging valley shot over the lip of the cliff on our left, and 
tumbled at our feet. Here glimmered flowers never dreamed 
of in Covent Garden. Above all an amazing wealth and variety 
of Primulas crowded the bogs, frilled the streams, and scat- 
tered themselves over meadow and lawn. 
.. Such was the valley of beautiful flowers, when T first 
saw it, in June. I have seen it several times since, silent and 
bare under a mantle of snow, or prostrate under the lash of 
rain. But I shall always remember it with the mountain 
eddies ruffling the spring flowers, amidst the babble of 
brooks, and the harsh cluck of pheasants while white wings 
of cloud sailed across the vast window of the sky.” (On the 
frontiers of northeastern Burma, eastern Tibet, and south- 
western China.) 
Romance of Plant Hunting, by Capt. F. Kingdon Ward 
All of the Primulas in this section are used for bedding, natural- 
izing, or as specimen plants in shadier borders, shady portions of 
east and north exposures, shadier woodland situations, streamsides, 
poolsides, and gardens with limited amounts of sun, 
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