Primula Mountain from Curtis art print
Primula Villosa - An archival premium quality art print of the Mountain Primula with Purple Bloom as drawn by Curtis for his popular Botanical Magazine in the year 1787. The picture shows a complete plant with stalk, leaves, dark purple blooms and even the root system. Curtis describes the Mountain Primula thus "This plant has been introduced pretty generally into the nursery gardens in the neighborhood of London within the last few years. A variety of this plant with white blooms comes from the Alps of Switzerland. It varies in the brilliancy of its colors, flowers in April and will succeed with the method of culture recommended for the round leaved cyclamen. Botanical art print #58