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March, and ends by the 25th of April, or thereabouts. 

 No flower can be considered in full bloom till the 

 pips are expanded; and most likely in Lancashire and 

 Yorkshire they are not so forward by seven or eight 

 days. To draw these flowers up by glass or any other, 

 artificial heat is highly injurious. Many florists keep 

 their lights continually over their flowers, day as well 

 as night, from the 1 st of January till the 1 st of May, 

 and only admit a current of air behind their frames ; 

 this is the rock, fatal to bloom, so many split on ; it 

 draws up the flower stem, and renders it weak and 

 incapable of producing a bold truss. To bloom an 

 Auricula in perfection, it does not require to be con- 

 tinually under glass night and day longer than twenty- 

 four days, or thereabouts, say from the 4th to the 

 28th of April ; you will then find your middle pips 

 expanded, or nearly so, and well adapted to be 

 exhibited on the stage. Be careful during March 

 and April to protect them from snow, sleet, and 

 hail storms. Sometimes the sun has been so power- 

 ful by ten or eleven o'clock, about the end of 

 March, as to make it requisite to put the lights over 

 them, and shade them a few hours. However, so 

 soon as an opportunity ofl'ers, expose them to the 

 natural air again. In the first week of April, or 

 thereabouts, it is requisite they should have glass com- 

 pletely over them night and day, till they are in full 

 bloom ; but during their stay under glass, admit a 



