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Oliver’s Lovely Anne. 
Kenyon’s Ringleader. 
Pletclier’s Mary Anne. 
Selfs. 
Netherwood’s Othello. 
Smith’s Airs. Smith. 
Chapman’s True Blue. 
Schole’s Cardinal Pleury. 
Schole’s Ned Lud. 
Dickson’s Apollo. 
Alpine Auriculas may be managed in 
the manner recommended for the other 
class, but being more robust, do not re- ■ 
quire so much nursing through the win¬ 
ter ; indeed, many of them succeed 
when planted into a shaded part of the 
open borders. They are distinguished 
from the Auricula 'proper by having yel¬ 
low “ paste” instead of white, and be¬ 
ing deficient of any edging. Some of 
them, such as King of the Alps, Switzer, 
and William Tell, are large showy flowers, 
and as such desirable for ornamenting 
the greenhouse or sitting-room at an 
early part of the year. But whoever 
grows the other varieties should entirely 
exclude these, if the production of seed¬ 
lings be an object, as they infallibly spoil 
both by hybridizing. 
Polyanthuses, though closely allied 
to each of the foregoing classes, require a 
totally different treatment; they are na¬ 
turally lovers of a damp cool atmosphere, 
and strong adhesive soil. The latter 
should be formed of a mixture in which 
the staple is loam, strong and rich, en¬ 
tirely free from iron, and containing the 
turf rotted in it; if three parts of this 
is taken and mixed with one part leaf- 
mould, and an equal part of thoroughly 
desiccated manure, it will form as good a 
medium for the roots of these plants as 
perhaps will be found, In the spring, 
say about the first week in March, the 
plants should be potted, and placed in a 
frame along with auriculas, or at least 
to receive similar treatment through the 
blooming season, as the same degree of 
attention to watering, thinning, anc. 
opening the flowers is necessary, and as 
it occurs at the same time, it is usual to 
place them together for convenience 
sake. But after the blooming season is 
past,' the Polyanthus should be turned 
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out of the pots into a prepared border 
of similar soil to that already mention¬ 
ed, and having a north aspect, so that 
Ley may not at any time receive the 
powerful influence of the sun, but be 
kept constantly cool and moist. In such 
a position they will grow with freedom, 
and increase their offsets in a manner 
never witnessed when continued in pots, 
even with the utmost care. Indeed it 
is a matter of some difficulty to preserve 
hem at all by the latter method, and 
dience the frequency of complaints of 
their failure, and the comparative ne¬ 
glect they have fallen into. Placed in 
;he border described they require only 
to be watered in dry weather, and may 
be allowed to remain till the following 
spring, if a protection can be afforded 
them against heavy snow and severe 
frost. Should it, however, be more con¬ 
venient to winter them in pots placed in 
frames, they may be taken up by the end 
of September, and after removing the off¬ 
sets, which will then be well rooted, they 
may be potted in the soil recommended 
for the spring potting, and be placed 
with and receive the treatment of Auri¬ 
culas until after the succeeding blooming 
season, to be again returned to the bor¬ 
der. If the chances are as one in a 
thousand in the production of a good 
seedling variety of the first-mentioned 
flower in this paper, and that they are 
not more every florist knows, with the 
Polyanthus they are reduced to the pro¬ 
portion of one in ten thousand. How¬ 
ever, the seed is generally produced with 
freedom, and the product, if good for 
nothing else, will always afford desirable 
border plants for the flower garden; 
therefore every one should raise a num¬ 
ber annually, and the reward may turn 
up when least expected. It should be 
sown in May, in some part of the border 
prepared for the old plants, and the seed¬ 
lings will bloom in the following spring. 
Some considerable amount of self-denial 
and impartiality will be necessary when 
the season arrives for determining on 
the value of the seedlings.. The first 
objection, “pin-eyes,” as it is called, 
will sweep out perhaps half: this is that 
state of the flower when the pistil shows 
