olorful, bold, extravagant, different, the comparatively new 
Primulas of the Far East bring adventure and excitement into the 
garden. From an average altitude of 2% miles on mountainous 
flanks and alpine meadows they crowd Rhododendrons, Poppies, Iris 
and Roses; run in and out of pine and birch woods; draw themselves 
up in regiments of color before bamboo brakes. Over this wildly 
luxuriant scene the summer monsoon lashes its silvery whip drench- 
ing the windward slopes and valleys from April to October. 

P. denticulata, India 
These are the conditions under which Asiatic Primulas grow in 
their homeland, conditions which indicate garden situations where 
the sun touches only gently, where the soil is deep and retentive and 
where water is available to cool them on Summer evenings. 
The success with which Asiatic Primulas are being grown over 
the States has so popularized them that output has been unable to 
keep up with demand which accounts for the following abbreviated 
stock list for 1946. Only one new species is being introduced this year, 
but by 1947, many new ones and a full list of the older ones will again 
be on hand. 
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