ACAULIS 
Do you remember, when you and the year were very 
young, how enchanted were the woods and gardens where 
you found your first flowers? The primroses gathered by 
the English children on the cover are the same as those 
picked along the Mediterranean, except, like the children, 
their coloring changes from fair in the north to vivid in the 
south. The union of Britain’s yellow primroses and the 
rose, crimson and purple Mediterranean variety has given 
us these primroses which beg to be picked when winter be- 
gins to melt into spring. Such bunches of beauty! And the 
lapel wearing a primrose—whether it is the long, rose-like 
bud, the starred or round open flower—is the more dashing. 
Dozens of primrose blossoms, each on its own stem, foun- 
tain up and over these hardy perennial plants so that they 
become cushions studded with bloom that equals the silver- 
dollar size of the Polyanthus. 
AMERICAN BLUES—Turquoise, sometimes sapphire, corn- 
flower, indigo, blue jewels often bedded in snow. Large 
blooming-size plants: 3/$1.75; 6/$3.25; 12/$6, plus 
postage. 
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