Japanese primrose with pale lilac flowers. Primula japonica var. lilacina. Handcolored botanical drawn and lithographed by W.G. Smith from H.H. Dombrain's "Floral Magazine" 1872.. Worthington G. Smith (1835-1917), architect, engraver and mycologist. Smith also illustrated "The Gardener's Chronicle." Henry Honywood Dombrain (1818-1905), clergyman gardener, was editor of the "Floral Magazine" from 1862 to 1873.