THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
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named varieties of every class — seifs, white, grey, and green-edged, 
and alpines. Grow these in frames the first season, and save as 
much seed as possible. Sow the seeds in pans filled with fine sandy 
loam, and keep them in frames always moist, until the plants appear, 
bearing in mind that you will have to wait for them a considerable 
time. When the seedling plants are as large as a bean, carefully 
transplant them into pans or boxes, or into a bed in a frame, always 
giving plenty of air, the use of the frame being advisable, because 
insuring the plants more attention than they might obtain if planted 
out in the open border in a very small state. When the stock has 
increased sufficiently, plant out old and young in the border, in the 
month of August, a foot apart, and leave them to take care of them- 
selves, remembering that the auricula is one of the hardiest plants 
known, that drought is death to it, that damp in winter is only a 
little less injurious. From the time the first blooms of the seedling 
plants appear, a severe selection must be made. Instantly, upon a 
bad flower opening, pull out the plant and destroy it. By per- 
severing in this course, and saving and sowing seed every year, you 
will secure a fine “ strain ” of border auriculas, and if you can keep 
a border of about 150 feet length well filled with them, as we have 
done for many years, you will be able to prove, in the flowering 
season, that the auricula is one of the loveliest border flowers we 
possess. To perpetuate named varieties, divide the roots in July or 
August. 
BEST FORTY-EIGHT AURICULAS. 
Green Edge : Booth's Freedom, Leigh's Colonel Taylor, Dickson's 
Luke of Wellington, Page’s Champion, Hudson's Apollo, Oliver's 
Lovely Ann, Smith’s Lycurgus, Cheetham’s Lancashire Hero. 
Grey Edge : Headly's Georye Lightbody, Turner's Ensign, Chap- 
man's Maria, Turner's Competitor, Turner's Colonel Champnei/s, 
Reid's Miss Giddinys, Fletcher's Ne Plus Ultra, Lightbody’s Sir John 
Moore, Hcad/y’s Stapleford Hero. 
White Edge: Campbell's Robert ■ Burns, Heap's Smiliny Beauty, 
Taylor's Glory, Smith's Ne Plus Ultra, Liyhtbody’s Countess of Dun- 
more, Wild's Bright Phoebus. 
Selfs : Spalding's Blackbird, Turner's Cheerfulness, Martin's 
Eclipse, Smith’s Formosa, Liyl Martin’s Mrs. 
Sturrock, Spalding's Metropolitan, Spalding’s Miss Brightly, Turner's 
Negro, Chapman’s Squire Smith, Headly’s Royal Purple, Headly's 
Lord Clyde. 
Alpines: Black Prince, Brilliant Defiance , King of Crimsons, 
Constellation, Jessie, John Leech, Landseer, Minnie , Novelty, Venus, 
Wonderful. 
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