146 THE AURICULA. 



The seed should be sown in wide-topped 24-cast 

 pots ; the surface mould finely sifted, and made flat 

 and even, and the seed not covered deeper than 

 about the thickness of a crown-piece. Let the top 

 be made level, and batted down after sowing with a 

 smooth, flat board, or the bottom of a garden-pot. 



As soon as the seed break ground, and the plants 

 make their appearance, they should receive, almost 

 daily, but at the same time very gentle, waterings, 

 from a garden syringe or fine rose, to forward and 

 encourage their growth. 



If the seed is to be sown in the open air, let it be 

 done in pans about the 1st of March, and a hand- 

 glass kept over it to protect and forward it, and keep 

 the rains from washing it bare. As soon as the 

 plants will bear transplanting, remove them into 

 wide-mouthed 48ths, and place them round the side 

 of the pots, sheltering them from the hot rays of the 

 sun. In the spring, shift them again into small pots 

 of 60 to a cast, to bloom. 



All pin-eyed flowers are accounted of no value, 

 and may therefore be thrown away, as not worth the 

 trouble of growing. 



