AURICULA. 
a quarter of an inch wide in the middle; 
it will then deliver the water in a full 
perpendicular volume, and in fo foft 
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and gentle a manner as not to wafir 
the furface of the foil into holes, in the 
fmalleft degree ; but the mouth of the 
fpout (hould be held very near the fur- 
face, and be brilkly moved round the 
plant, taking care not to let any water 
fall into the heart, or amongfl the interior 
leaves of the plant, as it could not 
fpeedily dry up in that part, and, of 
courfe, would endanger a decay; any 
water lodging in the heart of the plants 
in fpring, when the blofToms begin to 
make their appearance, cannot fail to 
injure them confiderably. 
The plants are to remain in their 
hummer fttuation till September or Octo¬ 
ber, as the weather may be more or lefs 
favourable, or until the heat of the fun 
has 
