AURICULA, 
blow the firft or fecond year, ought 
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neverthelefs to be carefully preferved; 
for among!! thefe it often happens that 
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the moft valuable flowers are to be 
difcovered. 
A great proportion of the feedlings, 
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although the feed was faved from the 
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be!! flowers, will be plain coloured, or 
felfs, which unlefs pofieffed of excellent 
properties in other refpe£ls, or being 
Angularly beautiful in their colours, are 
of no value, but as common border 
flowers for nofegays. 
A Defcription of the Properties of a fine 
Variegated Auricula. 
T H E flem fliould be ftrong, eretl, 
and elaftic, and of a proper height, that 
the bunch or trufs may be above the 
foliage of the plant. 
