PRIMULA AURICULA. 
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PRIMULA AURICULA. 
This is a very pretty Spring flowering plant, contain¬ 
ing a great variety of colors. To cultivate the Auri¬ 
culas to advantage, they should be protected from 
heavy rains, which injure them, by washing the pow¬ 
dery bloom off their leaves, and shaded from the sun 
in summer. Where any number of them are grown, it 
is a good plan to plunge the pots in a north border and 
protect them by a garden frame, raising up the back 
of the sash to admit air, and watering them as they 
become dry. When the plants have done flowering, 
which will be about the month of May, they should 
be repotted in a compost of loam, decayed manure, 
and sand, in doing which, pick off the dead leaves, 
and if it is desired to increase them, divide them with 
the fingers, and break off the old stump at the bottom, 
but do not cut them with a knife, as it injures them 
very much. When potted, give them a little water, and 
place them in the frame for summer. In the fall, pre¬ 
vious to taking them in for winter, take a little of the 
old soil from the top o£ the pot, and topdress them 
with some fresh compost, and if they require a larger 
pot, shake them out, and put them into a larger one 
with the same ball entire, filling up the pot with fresh 
soil, and giving them a little water ; then place them 
in a cool shady part of the house, and keep them 
rather dry, till they begin to grow, and when in flower 
they may be watered pretty freely. 
