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eel a complete connoisseur in Auriculas, Tulips, 
and Carnations. 
Having briefly given you my opinion in what 
manner fine green-edged flowers ought to be 
raised, I now beg to offer you my opinion in 
what way silver and grey-edged flowers should 
be raised; for to place this last-named sort 
among green-edged flowers would be highly 
improper, when your desire is to breed fine 
green-edged ones, although silver and grey- 
edged ones are veiy beautiful, and should be 
cultivated as well as other sorts j for a stage of 
Auriculas cannot be complete without them, 
as well as some tastefully selected self-coloured 
ones. The only flower I know at present best 
calculated to raise the latter sorts from, is 
Popplewell’s Conqueror, whose merits it is un- 
necessaiy to dwell upon, as it is a flower so 
generally known. 
Those flowers that you have expressly deter- 
mined to breed seed from are by no means to 
be treated after the manner of the directions 
given in this Treatise, for your large strong 
blooming plants, that you intend to exhibit on 
the flow’er stage, but should, after the middle 
of March, be treated more after the manner 
of a Primrose or Polyanthus, by placing them 
at this season in an east aspect (by no means 
