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of the Auricula, nor to follow it through every stage 

 of its growth, and to state every trifling incident re- 

 lative thereto, I will not depart now from such deter- 

 mination, but will proceed to give, in a summary 

 way, a few general directions on all the points that 

 appear to me most material and important. 



I will resume the subject, then, with the com- 

 mencement of the autumnal rains, which fall more 

 or less towards the middle or end of October, and 

 from which it is absolutely necessary to protect the 

 Auricula, by placing it under cover. A temporary 

 shelter for a few weeks longer \vould be infinitely 

 preferable to placing them in their winter-quarters in 

 the frames ; but if you have no means of affording 

 them this temporary shelter, put them at once into 

 the frames, where they will have to remain till the 

 spring. Let your frames be raised on a few bricks, 

 to admit a free current of air under them, and so let 

 them continue as long as the weather is open and 

 temperate, which in some seasons is often the case 

 till near Christmas. As soon as the frost sets in, 

 remove the bricks, and let the frame rest on the 



