348 A HE PLEASURE, OR [April. 
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 b<)llow 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 
middle than at the sides: the plant is next to be placed thereon, 
with its fibres regularly distributed all around, and the pot filled 
up; adding a little coarse sand, close round the stem of the plant, 
on the surface: the bottom of the pot, should then be gently struck, 
two or three times, against the ground, in order to close the earth 
about the roots; this will cause it to sink half an inch, below the 
top of the pot, which will prevent the loss of water, when adminis- 
tered. 
N. B. The true depth to plant an auricula, is within about half 
an inch of the bottom of its lowest or outside leaves. 
Any offsets that have formed one or more fibres, of an inch or 
two in length, may be slifiped off the old plant, and replanted round 
the sides of large pots, or singly in small ones, filled with the same 
compost; and if hand glasses are placed over them, such will cause 
their fibres to grow more rapidly; but they ought not to be long 
continued on, lest the plants should be drawn and weakened there- 
After potting, give each plant a little water, and place the pots in 
a shaded situation, where they may have the morning sun till ten 
o'clock, and the afternoon, from four or five, but by no means under 
the drip of trees; there they are to remain till October, taking care 
to keep them regularly watered, and free from weeds. The pots 
may, or may not, be plunged in the earth, but in the latter case, they 
will require more attendance. 
Care, of Seedling Auriculas. 
Seedling auriculas, which were sown last autumn, or this spring, 
now demand attention; these plants, when newly come up, or while 
quite young, must be carefully protected from the full sun in the 
heat of the day, and frequently refreshed with water. 
The boxes or tubs in which they are growing, should be removed 
to a shady border, toward the latter end of this month, or beginning 
of next: the place shoui^d be open to the morning sun till about nine 
o'clock, but shaded the rest of the day, and the plants watered fre- 
quently in dry weather. As soon as any of them appear with six leaves 
such should be carefully taken out from the rest, and planted in pots 
or boxes filled with compost, about two inches asunder; and if grown 
by ihe beginning of August, so large as to touch each other, they 
may then be transplanted into separate small pots, to remain all 
winter. 
