AURICULA. 
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proper plants in bloom will be required to 
replace fuch, as being earlier than the 
reft, or of Ihorter duration, are no longer 
eligible to remain on the ftage, and 
ought, in confequence, to be taken away, 
and more' fuitable ones brought on, in 
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their ftead. 
Whenever the outftde leaves of the 
plants appear yellow, or dried up, they 
fhould be carefully pulled off; becaufe 
when they become wet, there is danger 
of a mouldinefs or infe£tion taking place 
in that part of the plant to which they 
are conne&ed. 
But whenever the furface of the earth 
, t 
in the pots appears green, or moffy, it is 
indifpenfably neceffary to ftir it up about 
an inch deep, if poflible, without dif- 
turbing or breaking off any of the fibres : 
if, indeed, trouble were not confidered, 
it would be moft advifable to take away 
the 
