the hole, with a small piece of broken pot for 
the same to rest on, this will cause a complete 
hollow drain. 
When you have thus planted your offsets, 
trim the fibres of your mother-plant, and re- 
place it again into its pot, adding a little fresh 
earth to supply the place of that which is re- 
moved in trimming the fibres. Give the plants 
and offsets, so removed, a gentle watering, and 
place them in the shade (the warmer the wea- 
ther, the more shade and water they require) 
perhaps a little temporary artificial shade may 
be necessary. Be careful not to place them 
under trees, the water that drops from trees, 
both in showers of rain and afterwards, is very 
pernicious to all kinds of plants and flowers ; 
the plants, thus managed, will be strongly 
rooted before winter. By no means remove 
the offsets after August, for they have then 
done shooting, and are become inactive ; and 
the winter season coming on, without a great 
deal of nursing, they seldom come to much. 
Transplanting, 
Some florists transplant their Auriculas early 
in the spring, others remove them every year 
at the latter end of August, or beginning of 
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