PREFACE. 
The following Treatise contains a 
series of plain rules, founded on many 
years practice and experience, rela- 
tive to the culture of the Auricu- 
la, which I have been induced to 
publish for the benefit and instruc- 
tion of every admirer and grower of 
this most beautiful and most delisht- 
ful of all the spring flowers. For it 
is generally admitted, that there are 
fewer good growers of the Auricula 
than of any other flower, though no 
flower, I believe, has been cultivated 
with so much care and pains as this 
universal favourite. There are not, I 
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