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 Now remove the boxes, &-c. of feedlings into a warm 

 fituatlon, there to remain until March ; let them befnel- 

 teicd from great rains and froft. 



Some general Dire^ions in the Care of the Auricula, as re- 

 commended'by Mr. Miller. 



TH R compoH: he directs is, a frefli light Tandy mould, 

 mixed with well rotted cow dung. His firji ge- 

 neral diiedion is, in winter to protect your plants from 

 nyjcn rain and cold winds, and in March when their buda 

 are cotning forward, to proted them, giving them free 

 air in mild weather. Second^ About the beginning of Ft- 

 bruary, when the weather is mild, new earth your pots, 

 taking away the old as \o\v as the root, and that your 

 plants may blow with fingle heads, remove your ofl'-fets 

 as Ibon as pofTible. Such flowers as appear in autumn, 

 pinch off. 



Third, The pots to be prote£led from froft, when thev 

 are budding their flowers. 



fourth. When the bloflbm-buds begins to fwel!, proteft 

 them from violent fhowers,in order to preferve i\\dVhite- 

 meal or Farina that appears on them, and to give the 

 plants as much mild air as is pofTible, and to have fre- 

 quent, but gentle waterings. 



Fif:b, When the flower begins to open, place the pots 

 on the blowing flage, to be indulged with the morning 

 fun, and to be protected from that of the mid-day and 

 rain; and when the bloom is going ofF, fet out fuch 

 plants as are intended for feed in the free air, to be 

 indulged with falling fhowcrs. 



Mr. A'iiHer directs the bed for the feedlings to be pre- 

 pared thus : Let half a foot of well rotted cow dung, be 

 laid ten inches under the furface, to be well trod down, 

 to preferve the plants from being lifted by worms, 

 and which wi!l much forward tjicm, u i;en their fibrei 

 enter it. 



Mamifr 



