It was very little known before the beginning of the 19th Century, when it became a very favourite plant of the old Lancashire weavers. As growers they were clever and painstaking in the extreme, and among the workers in mines, shipyards, foundries, and factories many amateur florists would devote the hours that might have been given to well-earned rest to attending to the requirements of their treasured plants.Īuriculas were to many, the object of such dedication. There were men who concentrated upon breeding perfect examples of the flowers in which they specialised, and entered them in keen competition against others similarly produced. That section of horticulturalists who devoted themselves to the cultivation of particular kinds of flowers, which, for show purposes, conform to certain standards. It is a term that embraces all the families of plants of which named varieties possess forms and points of quality which constitute the standards of merit set up by the florists themselves. This term really has no connection with the shopkeeper whose trade is concerned with the sale of cut blooms. These beauties are all auriculas, primroses, and I turn (once again) to a second hand book in the ‘library’ at home, The Gardeners’ Enquire Within, Jubilee Souvenir 1930, Editor A J Macself, (Editor of Amateur Gardening), for details of this Florists’ Flower, for that is what an auricula is, a Florists’ Flower. I’m rather in love with the double auriculas which feature in the earlier part of this gallery – I didn’t think they would glamour me quite as much, but with their gentle ruffles and mix of rich, faded and subtle colours, I’m smitten. Baltic Amber Hopleys Coffee Stromboli Nymph Sibsey Sibsey Nymph Venetian Lisa Lisa Jack Dean Jack Dean Sandwood Bay Hallmark Moonriver Suffolk-based Nursery, Woottens of Wenhaston
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