P, JULIAE and JULIANA FORMS 
A waterfall in one of the mightiest mountain ranges in the world— 
the Caucasus, which the ancients said encircled the earth as a 
marriage ring does a finger—successfully hid, until 1900, a brilliant, 
starlike, creeping miniature Primrose. Once discovered and named 
for a lovely plant collector called Julia, it was propagated for ten 

Juliana Hybrid Pink in late winter. 
years when specimens were sent the botanic garden at Oxford. P. 
Juliae displayed an immediate willingness to hybridize with all the 
native English Primulas as well as the Primrose of her own terri- 
tory. These miniatures, vivacious, colorful and sprightly, have a zest 
for blooming from late winter to mid-spring. Nor does their nature 
vary from a rugged dependability for they. bloom and multiply 
prodigiously, either carpeting the ground like P. Juliae or forming 
rosettes. For edging, rockeries or given their run of the garden they 
are invaluable asking nothing but plenty of water, little if any food, 
a retentive soil in situations receiving the sun’s more gentle blessings 
in hot-summer-climates, and almost full sun in the Pacific Northwest. 
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