119 
and their visitors are so frequently disap- 
pointed in their expectations; and it very 
often happens that they lose a prize by being 
deficient in numbers ; but when a person 
is determined, and cannot conveniently keep 
more than four or five sorts for the ex- 
press purpose of exhibiting at subscription 
shews, let me advise him to keep ten or twelve 
blooming plants of each sort, say fifty, at least; 
I do not mean by this he is to keep fifteen 
plants of one sort, and only five of another. 
If you follow this plan, I am certain it will 
answer your expectations, as also gratify those 
who are admirers of the Auricula. 
I shall now name a few leading shew flow- 
ers, or what will do for the time present; 
but finer new sorts may be raised from seed, 
and introduced as first-rate flowers in the 
course of five or six years — that is impossi- 
ble for me to foresee — this I hope, that there 
will be some seedlings raised far superior to 
those I shall hereafter name. I remember 
to have seen a single bloom of a seedling, 
-raised by a gentleman unknown to me, it is 
now named Chilcott’s King — ^it is indeed the 
King of Auriculas— the ground colom* is in 
the same stile as Cockup’s Eclipse, of so much 
