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In 1792 appeared James Haddock's "Florist's 

 Directory," and in this is contained the first copious 

 treatise on the culture of the Auricula with which we 

 are acquainted. Haddock was a Quaker, originally 

 bred a gardener at Warrington, in Lancashire, but, at 

 the time he wrote, carrying on the business of a florist 

 at Walworth. Hr. Hogg says that, it is well known 

 to florists now living that Hr. Haddock neither ex- 

 celled in the culture of the Auricula nor of the Car- 

 nation, but that he managed Tulips and Ranuncu- 

 luses well. 



As far as we have been able to make out from old 

 records of Auricula shews, and from still older living 

 authorities, the following appear to be the birth-times 

 and names of varieties, some of which are still high 

 in favour. 



In 1802, the leading Green-edged varieties were 

 Barlow's King, raised near Ashton-under-Lyne, and 

 sold out by a person named Stretch, a very old Auri- 

 cula grower, now dead, and called at that time Stretch 

 and Barlow's King. 



Lee's Colonel Taylor* 

 Whittaker's Rule All 



Pollitt's Highland Laddie 

 Dean's Smoker 



* Lee's Colonel Taylor, Lee's Talavera, Stretch's Alexander, 

 and Staveley's Wellington, were raised by a florist named 

 Staveley, who sold them when only a few plants : and when 

 sold out were called by the names of the parties who bought 

 them. He raised the four varieties from an old sort called 

 Rone's Fai-mer. 



