Hardy Asiatic Primula 
Plants 
for 1950 
Best shipped in February through March and April and 
during September and October. 
Portrait of a Plant Collector in the Himalayas 
“Picture him in camp in a remote alpine valley. It is 
evening. He stands at the entrance to his tent, peering 
through field glasses at the peak he proposes to climb on 
the morrow. The sun swims in a bath of gold, and presently 
disappears behind the mountain; and night falis swiftly. 
He goes inside his tent and lights the candles. It is very 
still. The wail of a bamboo flute comes to him from the 
4 mens tent. Suddenly the silence is split by the roar of a 
rock avalanche, and as the last thunderous echo dies away 
an owl hoots. He muses in the gloaming while he listens 
to the shrill splash of a cascade. 
“After a hasty breakfast he leaves his camp for the peak 
above the pass—treading on air; and as he threads his 
way through the meadow, where the dew-washed flowers 
are preening themselves in the cool of the morning... . 
their trembling beauty, their delicate coloring, lavender 
and gold and the very blue of Heaven, the delicious per- 
fume, the tender foliage, with veins inlaid like cloisonne, 
make his heart ache.” 
.... from Capt. F. Kingdon Ward’s Romance of 
Plant Hunting. 
Asiatic Primulas are used for borders, naturalizing or as 
specimen plants in shadier situations, shady portions of east 
and north exposures, woodlands, streamsides, poolsides and 
gardens with limited amounts of sun. 
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