AURICULA. 2UD 



even in the growing of flowers, has as many fol- 

 lowers as in any other line. 



We arc told by some growers of the Auricula, 

 that sugar-bakers' scum, goose or pigeons' dung, 

 sea-sand, rotten willow-trees, night-soil, dung 

 steeped in butchers' blood, &c. &c, are all neces- 

 sary to produce fine flowers ; but, from our own 

 observation, all that is requisite seems to be a rich 

 and light mixture that has been well frozen, and 

 frequently turned over. Mr. S. Curtis tells us, that 

 he has seen the strongest Auriculas produced from 

 the following ingredients : two-thirds of the rotten 

 dung from old hot-beds reduced to fine mould, 

 one-third containing equal parts of coarse sand and 

 peat, or bog-earth, such as is used in the culture of 

 heaths, mixed well together by shifting or screen- 

 ing, and suffered to be well aired by frequent 

 turnings during the frosts of winter. 



Where it is desirable to plant Auriculas in the 

 open ground, we recommend that a space sufficient 

 for about eight or twelve plants should be fixed on 

 in a situation sheltered from the heat of the mid- 

 day sun, with either an east or north-cast aspect ; 

 that the earth should be taken out of the spot fixed 

 on to about eight inches in depth, filling it up with 

 a compost rather above the general surface of the 

 border, so as to throw off superfluous moisture. 

 As many of these clumps may be formed as the 



