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is in hopes of excelling. Fine properties, anrf 
especially the eye of the Auricula, ought to be 
minutely obsei-ved ; fine colours without it 
will serve rather to disappoint than answer our 
expectations. Flowers saved for seed should 
not be on the stage for bloom at all ; but so 
soon as the pips become expanded as large as 
a cowslip, those intended for seed should be 
removed to some other part of the garden at 
a distance of forty or fifty yards at least, so 
that they may not become impregnated with 
any other flowers whatever, but should be ex- 
posed to the open air, that they may have the 
benefit of gentle showers, and never covered 
but to defend them from excessive rains and 
violent storms, which would swell the seed 
too much, and cause it to burst the pods 
before it was near ripe, and thereby prevent its 
ever ripening at all ; they should be placed in 
an eastern aspect, where they would have twsun 
till about eleven o’clock only, for the stronger 
i ) the sun grows the less they should have of it. 
If youi* garden should be on so small a scale 
as not to admit those intended for seed to be 
placed at a reasonable distance from your 
general collection of flowers, I would advise 
you to place them in some adjoining neigh- 
bour’s garden for about three or four weeks, 
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