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If exhibited in Paris, the following additional desi- 

 derata should be kept in remembrance by the judges. 



Of the Pair. — '1. The pair should be of equal 

 height and size, both in truss and foliage. 2. The 

 colours of the flowers should be as much contrasted 

 as possible, a green edge and a grey one, a dark 

 ground and a bright one, a dark green edge and a 

 hght green edge, or any other contrast in the colour, 

 would be a point over equally good flowers not so 

 contrasted. {Gard. and Flor. i. 45.) 



MODES OF PROPAGATION. 



We once saw an emission of roots from the lower 

 end of an Auricula leaf which justifies the opinion 

 that, like most fleshy-leaved plants, it might be in- 

 creased by that means, but we have never tested this 

 experimentally.* The only mode of propagating esta- 

 blished varieties of the Auricula, practised by florists, 

 is by shps from, and divisions, of their roots. New 

 varieties are raised from seed. 



By slips and root-division. — The best time for 

 thus propagating the Auricula is during the last half 

 of February, though it is quite true, as stated by 



* A florist near Middleton, raised a plant of Lees Col. Tay- 

 lor by this means, which has bred and bloomed the same as any 

 other plant of the same variety. 



