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fiiil-sized Auricula pot, in one year ; but a dit- 
ference must be made between such as throw 
out many suckers and oifsets, and such as do 
not. In the first case you must transplant 
oftener, removing the offsets and paring many 
of the suckers or young shoots close to the 
neck. I beg to impress strongly on the mind 
of my brother florist, if he prefers a very strong 
superior bloom of flowers to increase, he must 
not suffer any offset to grow on the stock of the 
mother plant ivithout fibres, but rub them off 
when they are about the size of a hemp seed ; 
but those that spring up below the surface of 
the earth, you are at liberty to use your own 
pleasure about, and I hope this last remark 
will be strictly attended to, especially if it 
be your desire to excel in fine blooms; but 
if you are growing for profit alone, this system 
must be reversed ; at all events, the generality 
of the sorts of Auriculas are by no means ex- 
pensive, compared with many other flower- 
roots. Many florists will differ from me in 
opinion respecting a general shaking clean out 
the earth from the plant, and removal of their 
large blooming plants every year. I am well 
aware that it is a general custom to remove 
those strong blowing plants every year; 
that does not appear to me to be at all necessary, 
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