have been able to produce strong, 
healthy and beautiful plants of the 
Auricula in bloom at our prize exhi- 
bitions, to meet the minute inspection 
and severe criticism of our able judges 
' — the high priests of Flora. 
With all due submission then, I do 
humbly entreat the kind indulgence 
of the candid reader, and most re- 
spectfully solicit his patronage and 
support, as on the success of this 
small Work the Author's means of 
subsistence, at present, entirely de- 
pend. 
I have only to add, that before 
proof of the excellency of my sys- 
tem can be obtained, the strongest 
recommendation this Work at pre- 
sent can possibly receive, are the 
names of those subscribers who rank 
as the first nurserymen, gardeners, 
florists, and seedsmen, in and near 
