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bottom. The front is covered with two sashes, each six feet by 

 three feet, making the whole breadth of the front, about six feet 

 three inches ; as the sashes do not slide, but move on hinges fas- 

 tened to a piece of wood, which goes up the middle, and each 

 sash will thus lift up on one side, and fold backward over the ' 

 other, and thus, by folding them up in succession each alternate 

 fair day, you may expose the plants to sun and air as required. 



The back part is as I said before five feet high, and six feet 

 three inches in breadth, it is closed in by two doors hung by loops 

 and crooks, which are taken off during summer, and this gives 

 the plants plenty of air: it has six shelves that move nearer or 

 farther from the glass, their ends rest on laths nailed within the 

 sides, you may have two or three shelves on each pair of laths if 

 you choose, the lowest is about three inches from the ground, and 

 about eight inches from shelf to shelf, the whole cost about three 

 pounds ; this house or frame, if you choose to call it so, will hold 

 a hundred plants on the shelves, and by laying the inside ground 

 floor within the square of bricks on which it stands with ashes, 

 you may have a place for Polyanthuses or common Auriculas dur- 

 ing winter. A shelter of some sort is necessary in wet weather, 

 for though the Auricula is a hardy plant, and will bear any degree 

 of cold, except when budding for flower, but wet is at all times an 

 enemy, if it gets into the heart and remains too long. 



The third is situation, which is as important as soil or shelter, 

 this must be dry in winter, airy, and elevated above the damp 

 which usually in October and November, causes some plants to 

 go off in what is termed the neck rot, and this is entirely the effect 

 of wet and injudicious management. 



On wet ground the plants must be elevated above the surYace, 

 and have all the sun you can expose them to, and during spring, 

 until the bloom requires shading. In my next 1 shall give my rou- 

 tine of management for twelve months, and afterwards, some re- 

 marks on the sorts of Auriculas, &c. 



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