48 AURICULAS. [March. 
of the month. Those that have been kept in four inch pots 
should be put into pots of seven inches, and those that are 
in five inch pots may be put into eight inch. Give a gentle 
watering after repotting. Pinks do not require the pots so 
large, but the same treatment in every other respect. Where 
the extremities of the leaves are decayed, cut them off, with 
any other decayed l|aves ; the pots must be well drained 
with shivers or fine gravel. Give them plenty of air, other- 
wise they will be weak in growth. 
Primroses and Daisies may be planted out in shady situa- 
tions : the sun destroys them during summer, if exposed. 
AURICULAS. 
These beautiful and highly interesting plants are, to a 
great degree, neglected in our collections. It cannot be from 
want of beauty or fragrance that they have not attracted our 
attention, for they are exquisite in both. We are rather in- 
clined to think that those who have them do not give them 
the treatment they require yearly to perfect their bloom. 
They should now have the surface earth taken off about half 
an inch down, and fresh soil added, which will cause them to 
put on fresh fibres about the upper part of the roots, and 
greatly increase their growth. The frame in which they are 
placed should now face the east, as the sun will be too strong 
for them ; and about the end of the month turn it to the 
north. The glass of the frame may be white-washed, which 
will partially shade them from the sun, that being their de- 
light. Give them water sparingly until they begin to grow, 
and never water them over the foliage previous to flowering, 
as water injures that fine mealy-like substance found on many 
of the sorts, and which so greatly improves their beauty. 
Defend them, therefore, from rain and high winds. To have 
them flower strongly, only one flower-stem should be allowed 
to grow. The first one that shows is generally the best. 
At all events, leave the strongest, and cut off all the others, 
or only nip off the flower pips, which answers the same end. 
Never keep the sash off during the night, in case it rain 
before morning. 
