340 THE PLEASURE, OR [APRIL. 



In potting or transplanting auricula's, the plant ought to be care- 

 fully turned out of the former pot, and the earth shaken from its 

 fibres, which should be trimmed, if found long and numerous, and 

 also any part of the old main root, that appears in a sickly or de- 

 cayed state, must be cut clean out, whether on the lower part, or 

 side ; and if near the leaves, a cement should be immediately ap- 

 plied, consisting of bees wax and pitch, in equal quantities, melted 

 together, and laid on when soft, but not hot, to make it adhere more 

 firmly. Place a hollow oyster shell, or the like, over the hole in 

 the bottom of each pot, with the convex side upwards, and then 

 more than half fill it, with the compost ; let it be higher in the 

 middle than at the sides : the plant is next to be placed thereon, 

 with its fibres regularly distributed all around, and the pot filled 

 up ; adding a little coarse sand, close round the stem of the plant, 

 on the surface : the bottom of the pot, should then, be gently struck, 

 two or three times, against the ground, in order to close the earth 

 about the roots ; this will cause it to sink half an inch, below the 

 top of the pot, which will prevent the loss of water, when adminis- 

 tered. 



N. B. The true depth to plant an auricula, is within about half 

 an inch of the bottom of its lowest or outside leaves. 



Any offsets that have formed one or more fibres, of an inch or 

 two in length, may be slipfied off the old plant, and replanted round 

 the sides of large pots, or singly in small ones, filled with the same 

 compost ; and if handglasses are placed over them, such will cause 

 their fibres to grow more rapidly ; but they ought not to be long 

 continued on, lest the plants should be drawn and weakened 

 thereby. 



After potting, give each plant a little water, and place the pots in 

 a shaded situation, where they may have the morning sun till ten 

 o'clock, and the afternoon, from four or five, but by no means under 

 the drip of trees ; there they are to remain till October, taking care 

 to keep them regularly watered, and free from weeds. The pots 

 may, or may not, be plunged in the earth, but in the latter case, they 

 will require more attendance. 



Care qfSted&ng Auriculas. 



Seedling auriculas, which were sown last autumn, or this spring, 

 now demand attention ; these plants, when newly come up, or while 

 quite young, must be carefully protected from the full sun in the 

 heat of the day, and frequently refreshed with water. 



The boxes or tubs in which they are growing, should be removed 

 to a shady border, toward the latter end of this month, or beginning 

 of next: the place should be open to the morning sun till about nine 

 o'clock, but shaded the rest of the day, -and the plants watered fre- 

 quently in dry weather, As soon as any of them appear with six leaves 

 such should be carefully taken out from the rest, and planted in pots 

 or boxes filled with compost, about two inches asunder ; and if grown 

 by the beginning of August, so large as to touch each other, they 

 may then be transplanted into separate small pets, to remain all 

 winter, 



