. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. PRIMULA , C71. 4 Chinese Primrose is now ex- ceeUiugly variable. There are double-tld. forms of vari- ous shapes and colors and of various degrees of dou- bling. For pictures of various double and half-double forma, see 1867:250, 330. 20:2145. 31:512; 35:42; 38:12G. The normal fo
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. PRIMULA , C71. 4 Chinese Primrose is now ex- ceeUiugly variable. There are double-tld. forms of vari- ous shapes and colors and of various degrees of dou- bling. For pictures of various double and half-double forma, see 1867:250, 330. 20:2145. 31:512; 35:42; 38:12G. The normal form of this Prim- rose has a somewhat flat-topped flower-cluster, but there are forms with pyramidal and elongated clusters. Var. Bteliata {P. stellata, Hort.) is a form with hand- some star-like long-stemmed fls. in successive whorls or PRIMULA 1433 tiers in a Ion; i)7, p. 52. A.' 5:167. Pretty England from until 1879 thill nists. For ac as grown in 1 Journ. Royal 8:564; 9:20".); Gn. 49:in,-]8. nese Prinini-^i ent. Gn. 53, p. 229; 12:605. Gng. was introduced into 1820, but it was not nwas kiiowntobota- iiion in Chi-. the throat usually striped and the limb in various colors, from pure white to deep purple-rose. Japan: perhaps a cultivated state of the above. 5528. 16:599. Gn. 29, p. 382; 35, p. 335; 36:721. Gng. 8:241-2. 1892:.300.—The fls. are two to three times larger than those of P. cortnsoides. In some forms the fls. are fringed. Blooms in late spring. Hardy North. 5. MONOCARPIC^E. 11. F6rbesi, Franch. Babt Primrose. Figs. 1955,1956. Annual: slender and delicate species, with something of the habit of P. obconica: loosely hairy, at least on the Ivs. and lower part of the scape: Ivs. .small, 1-2 in. Ii,> ..II ill. ..I'. of pink, but 1 ..Mil. I'.irms, —from pure white til red. Tli. r. \v .ii -i. .1 ..r fringed forms (var. fimbriata, , ;in,l ^.- wiili a frill or extra corolla projecting from the throat (Fig. 1952)
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