ii 6 AURICULA. 
the plants, as it were, into a Hate of 
action, and caufing a continued circula¬ 
tion of their juices, during the fummer, 
in the formation of new fibres, for their 
neceflary fuftenance and fupport: where¬ 
as, if this operation of potting is not 
performed till the fecond year, the foil 
mull have loft a confiderable part of 
its nutritious quality, which will produce 
a proportionate decline in the ftrength 
of the plants : and if it be deferred till 
the autumn, there will not be time for a 
fufficient reproduction of the fibres before 
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winter fets in, the effefts of which will 
be a faint-coloured and weak bloom the 
enfuing fpring. 
But the moft dangerous confequence 
arifing from an omiffion to pot Auriculas 
in the fpring, is their remaining too 
much in a ftate of inactivity during the 
heats of fummer, the feafon, of all others, 
wherein 
