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practised as with the Primroses and Polyanthuses. The 

 garden and border kinds, to distinguish them from the 

 edged Auriculas, require severe sifting out ; the race is dis- 

 figured by weak washed-out yellows, dull purple magentas, 

 and nondescript colours, which have no effect in masses or 

 as edgings to the border, yet with things so easily raised 

 it is not a work of years to achieve important and lasting 

 results. Once a race has been brought as near to perfection 

 as mankind can achieve, it must be maintained thus by ever 

 watching for poor forms likely to contaminate the others. 



The history of the Shirley Poppies is a history of great 

 perseverance, and though such keen care is unnecessary with 

 things of the nature of the Primrose and Auricula, the same 

 love must dominate the raiser. 



