BLUE PRIMROSES
That subtle persuasion with which the modest primrose has touched the sentiments of poets and peasants of all times may be less apparent in tho garden developments of our bestloved flower of spring, writes an English gardening expert. But, even so, something of that peculiar fascination still lingers about the old, old primroses, and there i 3 in tho new a flavour of that same mysterious attractiveness. Among these later additions to the family, few are to my mind quite so appealing in that intimate way which primroses have as the blues; none has lorfeited so little of its naivete in gaining so much at the hands of culture. Blue is, after all, more closely linked with yellow in tlio spring garden than most colours, and, although many years have passed since Mr. G. F. Wilson mixed the ingredients, so to speak, of a blue primrose, this latter is to-day as near perfection as ono could desire.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22402, 24 April 1936, Page 11 (Supplement)
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159BLUE PRIMROSES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22402, 24 April 1936, Page 11 (Supplement)
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