rate, all of which will pay the florist well for 
his trouble, as the number amounting toge- 
ther, of first and second-rate flowers, to eighty- 
four new varieties, all of your own breeding. 
It is hope always that gives a spur to industry, 
and makes the most toilsome labour appear 
light. I particularly recommend this mode of 
raising from seed to the young florist. 
I shall now give you my opinion as to the 
sorts that come within my knowledge, as best 
adapted at the present day to save seed from ; 
but if my plan of raising seedlings be strictly 
followed, I am well convinced, in the course 
of five, six, or seven years perseverance^ you 
will have raised so many beauties of your own, 
far superior to those I shall name, that you 
will be induced to raise seedling Auricula from 
your own stock. In fact, you will find your 
own seedlings so excellent, and to rank so 
high, that every florist will want to become a 
purchaser of a Lord Nelson, a Duke of Wel- 
lington, or some other hero bearing your name. 
If you are inclined to raise three hundred seed- 
lings annually, you had better select out of 
your collection about eight or ten pots of Lut- 
terworth’s Lord Hood, and eight or ten 
of Grimes’s Privateer, in all, say from 
twenty-five young plants. 
