tender, they should be kept entirely from the 
sun, for when they first appear an hour’s strong 
sun would destroy your whole crop; nor should 
they have the sun during the summer months 
after ten or eleven o’clock, even if they are 
grown strong. The Auricula delights in cool 
shade, under a north wall or pales, &c. but by 
no means under the droppings of elder or other 
trees, and in the winter season only requires the 
comfortable and invigorating heat of the sun. 
As soon as your plants appear with six leaves 
they should be carefully pricked out, preserving 
all the roots you can, into pots about five inches 
over, or what are called about London by the 
potters, forty-eight’s, filled with the same sort 
of compost they were sown in, about four or 
five in a pot. Early in the spring following, 
they should be again removed ; the best time 
is from the 1st to the 12th of March; and I 
would particularly recommend them to be put 
singly into small pots, or what are called up- 
right sixties (and there to remain for bloom) 
which will be of a sufficient size to carry them ' 
thi’ough the summer, particularly the strong 
plants ; those that are veiy weak 1 would keep 
two or three in a forty-eight pot, till another 
season, as they may not bloom till the third 
year. 
