. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. egg-shaped bud, with usually a few smalloffsets adhering to it, forms the winter character of this, and all thespecies in this section. The offsets, if removed just as growth hascommenced in March or April, will develop into small floweringplants before autumn. It may also be increased by seeds, which itproduces freely. They ought to bo sown at once; for, if kept till thefollowing spring, they often remain a twelvemonth in a dormant state. P. farinosa alba and acaulis are two varieties; the former,as the name indica
. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. egg-shaped bud, with usually a few smalloffsets adhering to it, forms the winter character of this, and all thespecies in this section. The offsets, if removed just as growth hascommenced in March or April, will develop into small floweringplants before autumn. It may also be increased by seeds, which itproduces freely. They ought to bo sown at once; for, if kept till thefollowing spring, they often remain a twelvemonth in a dormant state. P. farinosa alba and acaulis are two varieties; the former,as the name indicates, has white flowers, and is of exceptional occur-rence ; in the latter, the flower-stem is absent altogether, and theflowers form a dense mass in the centre of the rosette of leaves ; thisis an essentially distinct variety, peculiar to one or two localities inthe North Riding of Yorkshire, where it was discovered some yearsago by Mr. Backhouse. P. scotica, the Scotch Birds-eye Primrose, is of much smallerstature than the preceding, rarely exceeding 3 or 1 in.; its leaves. S ;jlch Biids-Dye PrimroFC (P. scotica). are broader and oval, smoother as regards the margin, andrather more densely covered with farinaceous matter ; the flowersare smaller, of a deep purple colour, lighted up to intense loyeliness by a bright yellow eye. It is a rare Scotch plant, fonnd only in thewild mountain districts of Sutherlandshire and in tho OrkneyIslands, and is even more lovely than the previous species, of which,by the way, some botanists maintain that it is only a variety, butsurely it possesses ample distinctive character, alike in leaf, stem,and flower to claim a true specific title. It is particularly partial toa firm sandy soil intermingled with peat. It occurs elsewhere inEurope besides Scotland. P. auriculata, sometimes called P. magellanica, bears a slightresemblance to farinosa, but it broader and more undulated
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