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and soaked for two or three hours in a strong infusion of tobacco 

 water, and tlien replanted in a fresh soil or compost, and removed to 

 a situation at a distance from the former. But if the whole bed or 

 border be overrun with this insect, it is best to take up all the plants, 

 and having soaked them, to plant them elsewhere. The bed or bor- 

 der should then be trenched up, and remain fallow to the next sea- 

 son, or be planted with another crop not liable to tliis calamity. 



In their after management, they are said to blow at the same 

 time, and require nearly the same treatment, as Auriculas, both with 

 respect to soil and situation ; they are, however, more impatient of 

 heat and drought, and more partial to shade and moisture. They 

 may be set in the same sized pots, and in the same compost as the 

 Auricula, only with the addition of more loam : or they may be 

 planted on cool shady beds or borders, being very hardy, and seldom 

 destroyed by the coldest and most severe season, because their parent 

 is a native of this country ; but during the heats of summer they are 

 frequently destroyed, unless proper precautions are taken. Tiiis dis- 

 like of heat seems to indicate, that Polyanthus is rather an offspring of 

 the Primrose, which requires shade, than of the Cowslip, which 

 grows in open pastures ; though some seem to regard it as a variety 

 of the latter. 



The roots of the wild plants, when they can be procured, may 

 be taken up, divided, and planted out in the autumn, when they will 

 flower in the following spring. The Auricula kinds may all be in- 

 creased by seeds ; but in order to procure new varieties, choice should 

 be made of the best flowers, which should be exposed to the open 

 air, that they may have the benefit of the showers, with which they 

 seldom produce good seeds. These ripen in June. 



