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named varieties of every class — selfs, white, grey, and green -edged, 

 and alpines. Grow these in frames the first season, and save as 

 much seed as possible. Sow the seeds in pans filled with fine sandy 

 loam, and keep them in frames always moist, until the plants appear, 

 bearing in mind that you will have to wait for them a considerable 

 time. When the seedling plants are as large as a bean, carefully 

 transplant them into pans or boxes, or into a bed in a frame, always 

 giving plenty of air, the use of the frame being advisable, because 

 insuring the plants more attention than they might obtain if planted 

 out in the open border in a very small state. When the stock has 

 increased sufficiently, plant out old and young in the border, in the 

 month of August, a foot apart, and leave them to take care of them- 

 selves, remembering that the auricula is one of the hardiest plants 

 known, that drought is death to it, that damp in winter is only a 

 little less injurious. From the time the first blooms of the seedling 

 plants appear, a severe selection must be made. Instantly, upon a 

 bad flower opening, pull out the plant and destroy it. By per- 

 severing in this course, and saving and sowing seed every year, you 

 will secure a fine " strain " of border auriculas, and if you can keep 

 a border of about 150 feet length well filled with them, as we have 

 done for many years, you will be able to prove, in the flowering 

 season, that the auricula is one of the loveliest border flowers we 

 possess. To perpetuate named varieties, divide the roots in July or 

 August. 



BEST FORTY-EIGHT AURICULAS. 



Green Edge : Booth's Freedom, Leigh's Colonel Taylor, Dickson's 

 Duke of Wellington, Page's Champion, Hudson's Apollo, Oliver's 

 Lovely Ann, Smith's Lycurgus, Cheetham's Lancashire Hero. 



Grey Edge : Headly's George Lightbody, Turner s Ensign, Chap- 

 inan's Maria, Turner's Competitor, Turner's Colonel Champneys, 

 Reid's Miss Giddings, Fletcher's Ne Plus Ultra, Lighthody' s Sir John 

 Moore, Headly's Stapleford Hero. 



White Edge: Campbell's Robert' Bums, Heap's Smiliny Beauty, 

 Taylor's Glory, Smith's Ne Plus Ultra, Lighthody' s Countess of Dun- 

 more, Wild's Bright Phoebus. 



Selfs : Spalding's Blackbird, Turner's Cheerfulness, Martin's 

 Eclipse, Smith's Formosa, Ligldbodifs Meteor Flag, Martin s Mrs. 

 Sturrock, Spalding's Metropolitan, Spalding's Miss Brightly, Turner's 

 Negro, Chapman's Squire Smith, Headly's Royal Purple, Headly's 

 Lord Clyde. 



Alpines: Black Prince, Brilliant Defiance, King of Crimsons, 

 Constellation, Jessie, John Leech, Landscer, Minnie, Novelty, Venus, 

 Wonderful. 



January. 



