140 THE AURICULA. 



THE BEST TIME FOR FRESH POTTING 

 CONSIDERED. 



I AM now arrived at that part of my subject on 

 which a great difference of opinion prevails amongst 

 florists ; namely, as to the proper time for fresh 

 potting the plants. Many affirm, that as soon as 

 the plants have performed their duty and flowered, 

 and have relapsed into a state of comparative rest 

 and inactivity, that is the only proper season to 

 transplant and fresh pot them, which is towards the 

 end of May. The off-sets are then to be taken off 

 also. This is the season recommended both by 

 Maddock and Emmerton. I, however, do not 

 coincide in opinion with them, but approve of a 

 later season for doing this, in which I am borne out 

 by the practice of several, who do not perform this 

 part of the business before the first week in August. 

 The reasons which I have to offer are these : if you 

 put your plants at this early period of the summer 

 into pots, in which they are to remain till they 

 flower again next spring, the space of nearly twelve 



