FIBROUS-BOOTED FLOWERS. 
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Corona Regalis , or royal crown; re- I Aconite , the winter 
quires shelter in the winter I Sisyrinchium 
AURICULA, RANUNCULUS, ANEMONE. 
These early and beautiful flowers deserve peculiar notice, for 
ao garden looks well without them, and their bright tints delight 
the eye and mind. The commonest kinds are handsome and use¬ 
ful in small clumps, and a little care and trouble will raise superb 
varieties, 
The Auricula loves a soil composed of kitchen-garden mould, 
sand, and cow-dung, well mixed together ; they also like a cool 
situation. The seed should be sown in September, and when 
sown give it a gentle watering. By sowing the seed in pots or 
boxes, you can remove them from heavy rains, &c., without 
trouble, and shelter them in the outhouses or tool-house. The 
seed seldom appears under six months, and it has been sometimes 
a twelvemonth producing itself, therefore be not in despair, but 
remain patient; these freaks of nature cannot be accounted for. 
When they flower, you must single out the plants which bear 
the finest and most choice blooms, and transplant them into pots 
filled with the compost above described. The common sorts 
may be planted in the borders, to remain out and shift for them¬ 
selves. By keeping the fine auriculas in pots, you preserve them 
through the winter easily, for heavy rains and cutting winds do 
them harm. You can sink them in their pots during summer it 
the flower-beds, but let them be sheltered during the winter, if 
you wish to preserve the blooms uninjured. 
Auriculas multiply also by suckers, which grow on their roots. 
Take off these in February, and plunge them into pots of the 
mould they like best, to root freely. They will do so in two 
months. Auriculas should not be too much watered, as it makes 
them look sickly, and the leaves become yellow. When you pot 
