. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. ish description of it, therefore, will be unnecessary, beyond thepassing note that its flowers, if carefully examined, will be fonnd very frequently to originate from an undeveloped stem, so that thename acaulis was not by any means inappropriate. As regardscolour, besides the true typical sulphur-yellow, we have mauve inalmost every tint, occurring iu what may be colled a wild state; butwherever I have seen this digression at all pronounced in character Ihave, with tolerable certainty, traced its origin t
. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. ish description of it, therefore, will be unnecessary, beyond thepassing note that its flowers, if carefully examined, will be fonnd very frequently to originate from an undeveloped stem, so that thename acaulis was not by any means inappropriate. As regardscolour, besides the true typical sulphur-yellow, we have mauve inalmost every tint, occurring iu what may be colled a wild state; butwherever I have seen this digression at all pronounced in character Ihave, with tolerable certainty, traced its origin to some gardensouice—that is, to hybridity with some of our cultivated gardenforms, and usually found that where they occurred there had been agarden in olden time, if not at the place itself, at least in the neighbourhood. Besides these variations in colour, we havemany double varieties, such as double yellow, double white, doublepurple, and double crimson, the latter the rarest of the lot in cultiva-tion. I might here remark that these charming forms that were. Common Pi inuo^e (P vuljan^) wont to abound iu cottage gardens some years ago are neither asplentiful nor as vigorous in growth as they used to be. I have a sortof suspicion that the two or three consecutive dry seasons, which wehad some years ago, and the more eflicient drainage of the groundin connection with sanitary improvements have favoured theravages of the red spider, than which no greater enemy to Prim-rose culture exists, and that these may in some measure accountfor their comparative scarceness. Besides these variations, wehave in P. vulgaris var. grandiflora (long cultivated as , a perfectly distinct species), a plant possessing larger andcoarser leaves, and large, deep mauve-coloured flowers so earlyin spring as almost to claim its position as one of our mid-winterflowers. Added to this, its leaves are produced so early in autumn
Size: 1559px × 1602px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookpublisherlondonsn, booksubjectgardening, booksubjecthorticul
