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13. Champagne : syn., Couleur do Chair.—This is reinarkable on account of the colour 
of the berries, which are pale flesh, and their sweet flavour being exactly similar to the 
White varieties. Bunches short. Berries small. The plant is of dwarf bushy habit and 
robust. Leaves broad, flat, having tho appearance of the Red Dutch. It is an abundant 
bearer. A desirable variety. 
White Currants. 
14. Common White : syn., Blanche Commune.—Plant of dwarf bushy habit. Leaves 
small, deeply cut and crumpled in their appearance. Bunches small; berries small. 
15. Wilmot’s Large White: syn., Blanche d’Angleterre.—Plant of free, somewhat 
erect growth. Leaves largo, flat. Bunch of medium size. Berries large, white. A good 
cropper. 
16. WiHTE Dutch : syn., Blanche d’Hollande.—Plant, leaves, &c., of exactly the same 
appearance as the Red Dutch—dwarf, compact, bushy. Bunches large; berries large, or 
very large, of a yellowish-white colour, very fine, juicy, and sweet. A great cropper. 
— A. F. Barron, Chiswich . 
THE AURICULA. 
Chapter IV.— Work for the Month.—Propagation by Offsets. 
FLOEIST’S delight in his plants is by no means caused and measured 
merely by the duration of their bloom. That is only one bright episode 
in a round of pleasures that last and vary throughout the year. Hence, 
o oftentimes beyond the bloom will gather brother-florists round a friend’s 
collection; and there is always something fresh to communicate or to note, some 
aim to plan out, some failure to fathom, perhaps something to teach, and always 
a little to learn. 
So, throughout these papers do I seek to hold, so far as possible, a living and 
connected companionship with all florist readers ; and in the reality of such feel¬ 
ings would I go with them in imagination, each time we meet so silently in these 
pages, to the plants within my sight, that we may see them together in a mind’s- 
eye view, and watch them change. 
About a month after the longest, as after the shortest day, the Auricula 
enters upon the periods of its most active growth. Summer and winter are 
opposite extremes, and in these it rests ; spring and autumn are more alike in 
their moderated temperature and medium length of days; and so it seems very 
natural that a spring flower like the Auricula should find in autumn a second 
spring^a congenial time, reminding it of its happiest days. 
It will be pleasant by-and-by to see our favourite in foliage fresh and green, 
when other leaves are turning sere, when the richness of the year is gone, when 
all the harvest-sheaves are gathered in, and the rough hedge-rows, the wild-birds’ 
orchards, are reddening with their store of winter fruits. 
The autumn dress of the Auricula, which is its third change of raiment in 
the year, is very beautiful. The plants come again into fine distinct character, 
and the latest of this foliage will remain to form the winter habit of the plant, 
and is, like all its other dresses, well fitted for the season of its wear, the short, 
thick leaves being exactly constituted for enduring cold. 
The plants should all have been repotted by the beginning of this month, 
even with the latest operators; and where this was done in May, the plants 
