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placing them during winter under a common cucumber frame, to 

 keep them from immoderate wet, which this plant cannot bear, 

 although it be a native of boggy meadows. In the following, if not 

 the same 3 r ear, these plants will blow strong; and they should be 

 thus treated every year, as they require to have their roots frequently 

 parted. 



The fifth sort is increased by parting the roots, either in Sep- 

 tember or at the beginning of March. It is hardy, of ready growth, 

 and will succeed either in the pot or border, by guarding it from the 

 sun in summer, and from severe frost and too much wet in winter. 



The sixth species, which is yet a rare plant, must be treated with 

 care, as the fifth sort, and may be raised from seeds, or increased by 

 parting the roots: but it is apt to be lost if not well attended to. 



The seventh sort is delicate, and should be placed in a pot of 

 stiffish loam, mixed wilh one-lhird rotten leaves, bog-earth, or dung, 

 and plunged in a north border, taking care that it does not suffer for 

 want of water in dry seasons; as when thus treated it increases by 

 its roots nearly as readily as the Auricula. 



Culture in the Auricula kinds. These plants may all be increased 

 by seeds in order to procure new varieties, and by slipping the roots 

 to increase the improved kinds. 



In order to obtain good flowers from seeds, choice should be 

 rflade of the best flowers, which should be exposed to the open air, 

 that they may have the benefit of showers, without which they sel- 

 dom produce good seeds: the time of their ripening is in June; 

 which is easily known, by their seed-vessels turning to a brown 

 colour, and opening, being then careful lest the seeds be scattered 

 out of the vessel, as the}' will not be all fit to gather at the same 



time. 



The proper soil for ihis sort of seed is good, fresh, light, sandy 

 mould, mixed with very rotten neat's dung, or very rotlen dung from 

 the bottom of an old hot-bed; with which the pots, boxes, or bas- 

 kets in which the seeds are to be sown should be filled; and having 

 levelled the surface very smooth, the seeds should be sown, sifting 

 over them a litlle rotten willow mould; then covering them with 



