HAEDY SUBJECTS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 77, 28 September 1933, Page 18

HAEDY SUBJECTS

PRIMROSES AND POLY-

ANTHUSES

There arc few better plants for shady positions even in the town garden than the common yellow form of the, primrose. In fact, it can be grown almost anywhere and anyhow, and the same remark applies, more or less,' to the white, coloured, and double forms, somo of which are really beautiful. All these, except the doubles,' are readily raised from seed, which should be sown at this time, keeping, it moist, cool, aud shaded until germination has taken place, and' even afterwards; or, if it can be obtained, the seed may be sown in the early autumn or as soon as ripe. A good compost of leaf mould, some old manure, and a little sand makes a good medium. Barely cover the seed.

The various coloured polyanthuses— polyanthus-primroso hybrids and cowslips—are..equally useful, being very effective and wonderfully floriferous. Tho uewor blue, primroses and polyanthusprimroses are a distinct acquisition. Tho floivers vary in different shades of blue and are of a good sizo and very freely produced. A packet of seed will give plant's with a wido range ,of colouring. After flowering the plants may be lifted and. divided, but they, must be kept moist and shaded during the hottest part of the year. Much better results are obtained from young plants raised from.seeds, .but any . specially good variety' may be increased by division, which is the best, way with the double varieties also..