284 NATURAL. HISTORY, 
in beds as thinly as poflible. When fufficiently raif- 
ed, it is removed into pots, where it makes a more a- 
ieeable appearance than it does in its native humble 
Situation, where it is loft and overlooked, like modeft 
merit, amid its greater and more {plendid neighbours. 
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AURICULA. 
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Tu IS flower has been the greateft pride of all gar- 
deners., One root of it has fold for twenty guineas. 
Thefe flowers are indeed very delightful, both in 
{cent and beauty. They bloffom in April, and are in 
full bloom about the 20th: of the fame month. The 
numerous variety of their flowers, are diftinguifhed 
by the names and titles of eminent and exalted char- | 
acters: Thus, it has been not unaptly. obferved, that, 
as auriculas increafed fo faft, and great men, if pofli- 
ble, decreafed fafter, in a fhort time names of diftinc- 
tion would be wanting to denote their differences. 
The goodnefs of an auricula confifts in a {trong flower 
ftem, fhort footftalks, large regular flowers, full, 
round and ‘white eyes; and that the flowers them- 
felves may be flat, not the leaft inclining to cup. 
The culture being particular, we’refer our readers. 
to Bradley’s new improvements in gardening and 
planting. 
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