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Primroses Vol Primroses Vol. 60 No. 2 OFFICERS & BOARD American Primrose Society - Spring 2002 1 Primroses OF DIRECTORS Primroses EDITOR/GRAPHIC DESIGN Presidents Message Kd Buyarski, President Greetings primrose Quarterly of the P.O. Box 33077 Robert Tonkin American Primrose Society Juneau.AK 99803-3077 3155 Pioneer Ave. lovers, is it Spring yet? (907) 789-2299 Juneau, AK 99801 We're having lots of Volume 60, Number 2, Spring 2002 [email protected] (907) 463-1554 primFoses&gci.net sunshine in Juneau, Cheri Fluck, Vice President EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Alaska as I write this The purpose of this society is to bring the people 17275 Point Lena Loop Rd. Judy Sellers Juneau, AK 99801 Pam Eveleigh just before the Vernal interested in Primula together in an organization to (907) 789-0595 Ed Buyarski Equinox but it's still in increase the general knowledge of and interest in the Robert Tonkin, Secretary EDITORIAL DEADLINES the teens and 20's at collecting, growing, breeding, showing and using in 3155 Pioneer Ave. Winter issue - December 10 Spring issue - March 10 Juneau, Alaska 99801 night with (luckily) the landscape and garden the genus Primula in all its Summer issue-June 10 (907)463-1554 Fall issue - September 10 snow insulating our forms and to serve as a clearing house for collecting [email protected] and disseminating information about Primula. PHOTOGRAPHIC CREDITS plants. I've been Julia Haldorson. Treasurer All photos art credited. P.O. Box 210913 spreading wood ashes 1 President's Message Auke Bay, Alaska 99821 Primroses (ISSN 0162-6671) is pub- over my garden beds to (907) 789-5860 lished quarterly by the American Prim- rose, Primula and Auricula Society, 2 An Invitation to the World of Japanese [email protected] hurry the melting 19933 Cohen Dr. Juneau, AK 99801. Primulas by K. Oogaki, T. Torii and K. Hara Membership in the Society includes a process as I'm 32 Sakurasoh by Paul Held DIRECTORS subscription to Primroses, Seed Ex- change privileges. Slide Library privi- impatient to see the 36 Board Minutes Through 2004 leges and the opportunity to join a Round new sprouts and survivors of winter. How about you; Pam Eveleigh Robin. Dues for individual or household 6520 Law Drive membership in the American Primrose have you had enough snow and rain to get you ready Calgary, Alberta T3E 6AI Society, domestic, and Canada are $25 per calendar year, $70 for three years or (403)240-4417 for a new season of digging and planting, growing and $350 for an individual life membership. [email protected] Overseas rates are $32 per annum, and showing? There are hundreds (thousands?) of seedlings Editors Note: All photos on pages 17, 18, 19, 20, $90 for 3 years. Submit payment to the Elaine Malloy Treasurer. Membership renewals are due under the lights that'll need new homes this spring 21, 22, and 23 are courtesy of the Matsumoto P.O. Box 38 November 15 and are delinquent at the and summer; do you have homes lined up for them South Salem, NY 10590 first of the year. Periodical postage paid Sakurasoh & Primula Club. This article and photos [email protected] at Juneau, AK. yet? are part of a manuscript gifted to the APS by the Next year, we may not have nearly so many seedlings, Through 2003 Postmaster: Please send address Matsumoto Sakurasoh & Primula Club at the 1992 changes to APS Treasurer, Julia Terry Mitchell Haldorson, P.O. Box 210913, Auke Bay, if the USDA strictly enforces its existing seed and plant International Primula Symposium held in Portland, 17 Fearnley Dr. AK 99821. import regulations. They say that they will be requiring Ossett, West Yorkshire WF5-9EU Oregon. We again thank them for their generosity England Manuscripts for publication in the Phytosanitary Certificates for all seeds imported to the (144) 1924-261-698 quarterly are invited from members and and are grateful that technology now allows us to [email protected] other gardeners, although there is no US. This may seriously affect many of those plant payment. Please include black and white share their efforts with our members and the world. photographs, slides or color prints if pos- societies that we belong to that have seed exchanges Judith C. Sellers sible. Send articles directly to the Edi- and those members who send seeds from other R.D.3 Box 233A tor at the addresses above or email ar- Previous Photo Credits: Photos for the Winter Unadilla, New York 13849 ticles and [email protected]. countries. If you feel that these regulations now being (607)369-9237 Articles composed in Word or another 2002 60th Edition cover are as follows: juliae and [email protected] word processor are greatly appreciated. enforced are an infringement on International Trade, denticulata Mary Kordes; elatior Henry Pugh; Please communicate with the Editor re- may force seed companies out of business, or unduly Through 2002 garding electronic image requirements. kisoana Ed Buyarski; vulgaris, auricula, marginata, Dr. Roger Eichman APS reserves the right to use submitted restrict botanic gardens and international plant 223 Griffith Point Rd. articles and pictures for other official APS uses. sieboldii Jay Lunn; polyanthus, verisjaponicaand Nordland, WA 98358 societies, please contact: florindae are from the APS photo archives. (360) 379-9566 Advertising rates per issue: full page, [email protected] $100; half page. $50: quarter page. $25: eighth page and minimum, $ 12.50. Art- Michael Lidsky, APHIS-PPQ, 4700 River Road, Cover Photo: A View from Mt. Shibutsu, Ruby Chong work for ads is the responsibility of fhe Unit 141, Riverdale, MD 20737. 6870 Union St. advertiser, and camera ready copy is ap- Japan. Photo Matsumoto Sakurasoh & Primula Burnahy BC V5B 1X5, Canada preciated. Submit advertising to the Edi- ior. (Graphic artwork help is available.) (604) 298-8384 Continued on page 36 Club [email protected] 2 American Primrose Society - Spring 2002 American Primrose Society - Spring 2002 3 An Invitation to The World of Primula nipponica Japanese Primulas Japanese name: "Hinazakura" Meaning: Tiny, lovely primrose like a doll, (from Nippon=Japan) In commemoration of "Primula Worldwide", the 1992 International Primula DISTRIBUTION: On the very snowy mountains in the Tohoku District of Symposium Honshu. Mostly on the mountains included in the Ohu mountain range running in April 10-12, 1992 Portland, Oregon the center of the Tohoku District like a spine. Mt. Hakkohda, Mt. Iwate, Mt. by Yakeyama, Mountains of Hachimantai, Mt. Kurikoma, Mt. Zaoh, Mt. Azuma, K. Oogaki, T. Torii and K. Hara and others on the mountains on the side of Japan Sea. The Asahi Mountains, Mt. Translation by K. Hara and M. Yanagisawa Gassan, and Mt. Chokai on the side of Japan Sea. Endemic to Japan. Editor: K. Hara ALTITUDINAL RANGE: 1300-2000m. First Published April 1992 HABITAT: Occurring in snowbeds and in damp meadows up in the sub alpine zone. The environments of P. nipponica and cuneifolia are quite similar, but they Matsumoto Sakurasoh & Primula Club never occur in the same habitat together. Yoshikawa Koya 647-51 LEAF: Spatulate and obvolate in shape, 2-4cm. long, 5-15mm. wide; slightly Matsumoto, Nagano, 399 Japan fleshy; with no hair; tip rounded but serrate with 5-9 teeth, side margins entire; blade tapering to a petiole cuneately; efarinose INTRODUCTION PEDUNCLE: 10-15cm. tall; the upper part covered in fine glandular hairs Never have many comprehensive books or monographs on primulas of Japan UMBEL: Spreading; 1-8 flowered been published in Japan, much less in other countries of the world. Neither BRACTS: Linear; 2-5mm. long; covered in small glandular hairs Japanese nor anyone in the English speaking countries has ever published the PEDICELS: 5-15mm. long; lengthening to 1.5-2cm. in fruit kind of books as this in English, which is a widely used language in the world. CALYX: Campanulate; 4mm. long; 5-ridged; cut to the middle into obtuse lobes; The language barrier is so big between the two languages that large parts of minutely glandular at the base various information on Japanese primulas in general that was accumulated for a COROLLA: White; about 1cm.; limb shallow funnel shaped; lobes emarginate; long period of time has been left internationally unopened and remains only with a yellow eye within Japan. CAPSULE: globose; 4mm. long Here on this particular occasion of the International Primula Symposium 1992, we will unveil the mysterious world of Japanese primulas and illustrate it in three Primula cuneifolia chapters as comprehensively as possible, using more than 130 color plates and a Japanese name: "Ezo Kozakura" Meaning: Small primrose native to Hokkaido lot of line .drawings as well as black and white photos; Chapter I: Wild Primulas DISTRIBUTION: Only in Hokkaido in Japan: the Chuoh heights in the center of in Japan, Chapter II: Sakurasoh and Chapter III: Primula Hybrids and Cultivars. Hokkaido including Mt. Daisetsu: and Mt. Rishiri, Mt. Shari, Mt. Rausu, Mt. This English version being completed solely by us Japanese, we are afraid Shokanbetsu; On the Chishima islands (Kuril Islands), from Eastern Siberia, there are a considerable number of misuses of terms, incorrect expressions and Kamtchatka, the Aleutian Islands, the coasts of Western and Southern Alaska, grammatical errors to be found. Leaving this disadvantage aside, however, we are and reaching a part of Canada. sure that a debut of this unique publication of ours will make not a little ALTITUDINAL RANGE: As low as the coastal regions very close to the sea contribution to primula lovers and people in the world who are botanically and shore in the Sub arctic regions like Alaska, up to 2000m. On high mountains in culturally interested in Japanese primulas, and that is what we believe of great Hokkaido significance and worth letting this known to the world.
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