Archive image from page 422 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. 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 cyclopediaofamer03bail3 Year: 1900 PRlllULA PRIMULA 1433 625, C71. 4 Chinese Primrose is now ex- ceedingly variable. There are double-tld. forms of vari- ous shapes and colors and of various degrees of dou- bling. For pictures of v
Archive image from page 422 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. 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 cyclopediaofamer03bail3 Year: 1900 PRlllULA PRIMULA 1433 625, C71. 4 Chinese Primrose is now ex- ceedingly 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 forms, see 1867:250, 330. 20:21i5. 31:512; 35:42; 38:120. The normal form of this Prim- rose has a somewhat flat-topped flower-cluster, but there are forms with pyramidal and elongated clusters. Var. stellata {P. stellata, Hort.) is a form with hand- some star-like long-stemmed fls. in successive whorls or tiers in a lone open cluster: recent. Gn. 53, p. 229; 57, p. 52. 18:201; 20:384-5. 12:605. Gng. 5:167. Pretty. Primula Siiie)isis was introduced into England from Chinese gardens in 1820, but it was not until 1879 that the original wild form was known to bota- nists. For accounts and pictures of this wild Primrose as grown in English gardens, see essay by Sutton in Journ. Royal Hort. Soc. 13:99 (1891). III. 5:115; 8:564; 9:209; 11:13 (figure reproduced in 13:245). Gn. 49:1058. 7559. The native color of the Chi- nese Primrose seems to be on the order of pink, but there are many colors in the cult, forms, —from pure white to red. There are now crested or fringed forms (var. fimbriMa, Hort.), and those with a frill or extra coroUa projecting from the throat (Fig. 1952). Gt, 43:1402; 45:1432; 46, p. 192. The Ivs. are variable in shape and depth of lobing. Some forms have crisped leaves (var. iiliciSdIia, Hort.). The improvement of P. Sinensis has taken place without the influence of hy- bridization with othe
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