JANUARY. 
3 
success as an exhibitor will be a guarantee of the value and 
accuracy of his directions. To the bumble individual who 
conducted that department last year will be assigned a corner 
in the calendar for what small gardeners should do each 
month —his own square inch, which has caused many a 
smile on the countenances of those who have seen it, will be 
taken as a sample of many others, and it is hoped that those 
similarly circumstanced will derive some little instruction from 
what he may detail. 
Having thus spoken of the past, and detailed our plans for 
the future, we have nought now to do but to wish our many 
readers, according to good old English custom, Happy New 
Year.” It may be true, if our weather-wise folks he correct, 
that we are to anticipate another wet and stormy season, that 
they may have difficulties to contend with, hut we doubt not 
that they will recollect that, in the pursuit of floriculture, as 
well as of every other object of man’s desire, heavenly or 
earthly, the word is true which says— 
“Amor omnia vincit.’* 
Deal) December 18. D. 
AURICULAS. 
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION OF RICHMOND’S NORTH STAR. 
(Plate 172.) 
Revenons a nous moutons,” the “ moutons” in this case 
being Auriculas; and though it be the cold and dormant 
month of December, and our frames with four inches of snow 
on them, the sight of this new and apparently handsome 
variety awakens many a pleasing reminiscence, and kindles 
many a bright expectation. Already we fancy we see the 
frames opened to the morning sun, the plants under the influ¬ 
ence of its rays, and the good and careful top-dressing they 
have received expanding their leaves, which come up from 
some unknown region, the truss pushing its way up, and even 
the whole stud in the full vigour of bloom. This is, however, 
but fancy’s sketch, and we must come down to sober realities, 
and say a few words on self-coloured Auriculas in general, and 
of this North Star in particular. 
I have very little doubt that to the ol ttoWoi this class has 
more attractions than any other, and the amateur knows very 
well that his frame would have an appearance of great same¬ 
ness were it not for the sprinkling of the many beautiful 
varieties of them that he is enabled to intersperse amongst 
them, and considering how many of them come from every pan 
