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Your Auricula feed will ripen in July, which you 

 will know by their pods turning brown and bnrfting; 

 then look over the plants every day, slather them as they 

 ripen, and put them into fmail paper bags, hanging them 

 in a window to get the fun for ten days to prevent mould- 

 ing ; but do not take the feed out of their nuflcs until you 

 fow them, which fhould be done the firft week in Febru- 

 ary, and in virgin-earth, mixed with one third of rotten 

 ■willow-wood, and feme of the earth about them ; the 

 feed which are to be fown in large pots are not to be 

 covered to fcarce a quarter of an inch, to be conflantly y>^. 

 kept in a fhaded Htuation, quite excluded Q^jjjl^e fun's '/^•"i. 

 rays, as they would kill all the young plaSi^^'hich will 

 iTiew themfelves in April or May\ they are to be kept 

 moift, and to be tranfplanteu into pots \x\ Septembery fil- 

 led with the fame comport in which they were fown. 

 By the end of Oi^ober, let the pots be fct where they 

 mny have the fun's rays during the winter, and about the 

 firil of March, fet them into a free, open fituation, but 

 well fheliered from ftorms. 



When you tranfplant, or thin thefe plants, lay the 

 furface of the earth in the feedling pots fmooth ; as ma- 

 ny of the young plants will not come up, till the fecond 

 year after fowing. 



\n Sep'. ember y re-pot the old plants, off-fetts and feed- 

 lings into frefh earth, whereby you will never fail of a 

 good fucceflion of fine flowers : In two or three years, 

 your feedling Auriculas will fnow their beauties, when 

 }ou will diftinguifli thofe that merit your care. 



Defcription of the Frame neceffary for the growing and 

 Prote^ion of the Auricula. 



HAV ING already di-fcribed the (lage for blowing 

 the flowers, we fliall give a defcription of tliat 

 which is nccc (Tary, for affording the plants the prote6tion 

 they require from cold, violent rains, ftorms, and a hot 

 fun. Its form rcfcmbles that of a hot-bed frame, but 

 open on all fides, whofe dimenfions and form will be bet- 

 ter 



