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vered in, the persons who will strictly follow 
it for seven or eight years will not fail of being 
well rewarded for their trouble ; they will raise 
some first-rate flowers, worthy of being named 
after the greatest heroes or beauties of ancient 
or modern times. 
In my opinion, the seedling Auricula are to 
be bred as high as the noblemen and gentle- 
men breed their fine race-horses ; for that finer 
animal the race-horse is not bred in high 
blood, beauty, shape, make, and fleetness, 
without strict attention to pedigree, trouble, 
and a heavy expense. So it must'be with the 
Auricula, if you wish to improve its beauty, 
symmetry, and fashion ; but I do not mean to 
compare the expense of raising a few seedling 
Auriculas to that of breeding a beautiful fleet 
race-horse ; all I want is to endeavour to the 
best of my abilities to lay down a system most 
likely to be attended with success, and to re- 
quest a fair experiment of it, so that the num- 
ber of good Auriculas may be increased and 
extended. I am sorry to say but very few 
florists have cheerfully entered into the spirit 
of raising Auriculas from seed ; they have pur- 
sued the casual way, in which they have for the 
most part been disappointed j but whether 
this arises from negligence, or from want of 
