348 THE PLEASURE, OR [April. 
Compost for Auriculas. 
The compost proper for auriculas, should consist of the following 
ingredients in the annexed proportions, viz: 
One half rotten cow-dung, two years old. 
One sixth fresh sound earth of an open texture. 
One eighth earth of rotten leaves. 
One twelfth coarse sea or river sand. 
One twelfth nioory earth. 
One twenty-fourth ashes of burned vegetables. 
These ingredients should be well incorporated, and placed in an 
open situation, perfectly exposed to the action of the sun and airj 
it should be laid in a regular heap or mass from fifteen to eighteen 
inches thick and turned frequently: in this state it should remain 
a year or six months, turning it once every two months, and keep- 
ing it always free froin weeds: before it is used, it should be passed 
through a coarse screen .to free it from stones, &c. and to incorpo- 
rate it more effectually. 
New Potting Auriculas, and increasing them by Slips. 
The most adviseable time to transplant, or to slip auriculas, or 
as it is usually termed to pot them, is immediately, or very soon 
after their bloom is over; and this should be repeated annually, for 
it preserves the health and constitution of the plants, by affording 
them a fresh supply of nourishment, and affords an opportunity of 
curtailing the fibres if grown too long, or if any are decayed and 
mouldy; or of cutting off the lower part of the main root, if in a 
rotting or decayed state, which is frequently the case. By this 
treatment, the plants are brought into a state of action and fresh 
vegetation, which will cause a continued circulation of the juices 
during the summer. 
The pots should be hard baked, and for blooming plants ought 
to be seven inches in diameter at top, four and a half at bottom, and 
about seven deep; but smaller plants and offsets should have shal- 
lower pots, and of a proportionate size, and very large plants must 
have pots in proportion. These before being used, if new, shquld 
be immersed in water for five or six hours or more. 
In potting or transplanting auriculas, the plant ought to be care- 
fully turned out of the former pot, and the earth shaken from its 
fibres, which should be trimmed if found long and numerous, and 
also any part of the old main root that appears in a sickly or de- 
cayed state must be cut clean out, whether on the lower part, or 
side; and if near the leaves, a cement should be immediately ap- 
plied, consisting of bees wax and pitch, in equal quantities, melted 
together and laid on when soft, but not hot, to make it adhere more 
firmly. Place a hollow oyster shell, or the like, over the hole in 
the bottom of each pot, with the convex side upwards, and then 
more than half fill it with the compost; let it be higher in the mid- 
dle than at the sides: the plant is next to be placed thereon, with 
its fibres regularly distributed all around, and the pot filled up, 
