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NEW GREY-EDGED AURICULA. 
page 56, by Mr, Revel], and by Mr. Warris, page 349, little more 
remains to be added. 
With regard to sowing the seed, it may be observed that, many 
persons make a practice of deferring this operation till January or 
February, and recommend that the seed, when gathered the previous 
summer, be dried and kept in a dry room till used. Others suggest 
the keeping of it in a damp room, and think it comes up a fortnight 
sooner than when kept dry, whilst not a few sow it immediately after 
being gathered. Our own observation inclines us to recommend 
the latter plan, as being likely to produce the finest plants in the 
shortest space of time. Prepare the pans and soil after Mr. Warris’s 
plan, page 349, Vol. 1, then gather the seed-pods, rub the seeds out 
on a piece of paper, and sow them immediately, sifting through a 
very fine sieve just enough mould to cover the seeds. When sown, 
there will be no necessity to take them into the greenhouse or frame, 
because this will occur at a season of the year when shelter is unne¬ 
cessary, except from heavy rains, which would wash the seed away. 
If the pots be set in a shady situation, on an eastern or south-eastern 
aspect, they will be up in about three weeks, and in November will 
be ready to transplant. They may then be removed to a frame or 
other shelter for the winter, but let them be transplanted in the way 
recommended by Mr. Warris. With regard to suitable soil, those 
who use only such as is rich, wholesome, and porous, of simple mix¬ 
ture, usually have the best success. Bone-dust is a most excellent 
ingredient to mix with auricula soil, and its decomposition being 
slow, its volatile alkali passes off slowly, which is very advantageous, 
as the stimulus is thus of long continuance. Some good new turfy- 
loam, well rotted, with vegetable mould, either made from leaves or 
gathered from the interior of a hollow tree, besides river sand, well 
rotted horse-dung, and such like, (see Mr. Revell’s composition, 
Vol. 1, page 56,) together with a little bone-dust, are all the ingre¬ 
dients necessary to grow them to the greatest perfection. Sugar-ba¬ 
kers’ scum is an excellent manure, see Vol. 1, page 847, but it can¬ 
not be safely employed until all its pernicious qualities have been 
totally subdued. In using bone-dust, a very small portion of .lime 
will be of great utility mixed with it in the soil, as the animal mat¬ 
ter would by this means be decomposed and immediately fitted for 
the use of plants. Bone-dust cannot be too highly recommended as 
a manure, for we have seen its good effects in vine borders more than 
once. Thus much for the compost; our fioricultnral friends will 
now probably allow us to throw out a few hints to the uninitiated, on 
the manner of packing up Auriculas when in blow to be sent to a 
