THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



FEBRUARY 1st, 1834. 

 PART I. 



ORIGINAL .COMMUNICATIONS. 



ARTICLE l.— On the Culture of the Auricula. By 

 Innovator. 



In forwarding you f° r insertion in your Magazine my method 

 of treating the Auricula, I must confess I do it with reluctance ; 

 but as none of your other correspondents have treated on it, and 

 requests are made for a mode of culture, I send it, hoping it may 

 prove serviceable. Mv reluctance arises from the ill success that 

 attended the first seven or eight years of my growing ; this I 

 attribute to the excessive richness of the compost I then used, 

 being composed principally of old night-soil, sugar-bakers' scum, 

 blood, and old cow and goose dung, with a small proportion of 

 lotm and sand. I had generally to buy in a fresh stock every 

 \ i-ar ; some few lived to flower two years, but they generally died 

 off in the autumn, after they had been repotted. They certainly 

 (lowered superior to any I have since had, but they were sure to 

 die. This loss, added to the advice of a Lancashire grower, 

 induced me to alter my compost, and render it more simple; and 

 I believe mine are now as healthy as any grower's in England. 

 Tin: situation where I keep them is an airy part of the garden, 

 irheie 1 have built a wall six feet high, and eight yards long; this 

 I have ornamented at the top, which is a great improvement. This 

 wall runs from south-east to north-west. At 18 inches from the 

 ground are built in five cross pieces of three-inch deal, and 7d feet 



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