some seasons, that number of plants may pro- 
duce a sufficient quantity of good bold seed 
to raise you six or seven hundred seedlings, 
say six hundred; if so, I calculate you will 
bring four hundred and fifty seedlings to 
blooming perfection : in fact, I have proved it, 
having from a practical knowledge been able 
to make a calculation on raising seedling Auri- 
cula. I do not hesitate to say, out of three 
hundred seedlings saved on this system, you 
are at a certainty of raising five superior or 
first-rate flowers, besides seven or eight (if 
not more) second-rate flowers, all of which 
will be an admirable ornament to your collec- 
tion of other flowers that are intended for the 
stage; and most likely the first-rate flowers 
wdll be worth from one guinea to one guinea, 
and a half per plant, after you have increased a 
sufficient number for sale ; besides, the second- 
rate flowers will be of considerable value, and 
all the inferior sorts, viz. seifs, &c. will fetch 
you from twelve to fifteen and eighteen shillings 
per dozen, if planted out in small sixties, so 
called by the pot manufactiu'ers round London. 
But if you save your seed in the present cus- 
tomary way, you must not expect one fine 
flower out of a thousand seedlings ; and it takes 
no more time, trouble, or a grexiter quantity 
