AURICULA. 
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fome warm fheltered fituation, till their 
roots are ellablilhed. 
The Auricula is by no means a tender 
plant, yet it will be proper to cover the 
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repolitory with mats, in cafe of fevere 
froft; for although it probably would 
not deftroy the plants, unlefs it happened 
in an extreme degree, it would, how¬ 
ever, injure them, and perhaps fpoil 
their bloom, particularly, early in the 
fpring, when the ftem begins to rife; 
it would certainly, at that period, deftroy, 
or render the pips n abortive. 
If any plant is poffeffed of more than 
one or two principal Hems, it is advifable 
to pinch off the pips of the fmalleft and 
weakeft, in order to render the bloffoms 
of the remaining one larger and more 
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® The word Pip is a term fubftituted by Florifts, for the 
corolla of the Auricula and Polyanthus. 
SpB “ . vigorous 
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