email, there will be unsightly vacancies in the 
truss ; or if they are short, and the pips many 
and large, they will be too much crowded to- 
gether, so that neither the colours can be fully 
viewed, nor the other properties ot the pips 
displayed. The pedicles should be sufficiently 
elastic, strong, and firm, that they do not droop 
with the weight of the pips, and fall loose and 
jangling into disorder, but support the truss 
firmly and close without either vacancy or 
crowding. They ought to be nearly all of the 
same length, so that the pips may stand to- 
gether at the same height, and form a regu- 
lar umbel, or rather coiymbus, which is the 
formal perfection of the tniss. The pips should 
be nearly of the same size and colour, so as 
not to be easily distinguished from one another, 
for othenvise the unity and harmony of the 
truss will be destroyed, and although ever so 
plentifully formed, w^ould aji'pear as if taken 
from different sorts of Auriculas. An Auricula 
ought to blow freely, and expand all its ])ips 
at the same time, for by this means the colours 
in them all wall appear cciually fresh and lively ; 
wdiereas those that do not blow some of the 
pips till others have passed their i)rimc, the 
wffiole appearance of the truss falls much short 
<ff that beauty wdiich w ould otlierwdse be seen. 
