Two hundred garden flowers, each with F. Edward Hulme's hand-drawn colour plate and Shirley Hibberd's essay — five series of the best-loved flower book of the Victorian garden, complete.

The Polyanthus

2 pages in this part of Familiar Garden Flowers.

The Polyanthus: Primula

The primrose, polyanthus, oxlip, and cowslip are so nearly related that it is a difficult matter to define them nicely; but the definition…

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