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NEWLY-INVENTED GARDEN POTS. 



Writers on horticulture have repeatedly 

 complained that the manufacture of flower- 

 pots made no advance with the progress of 

 horticulture. While every other department 

 of the art has made rapid strides, the flower- 

 pots of to-day are made in the same fashion 

 as those used a hundred years ago. It is 

 true that a common flower-pot is a most 

 useful and accommodating thing, hut the 

 wants of gardeners are so various that 

 ■we now require pots of many kinds — tall 

 ones for bulbs, shallow ones for lycopods 

 and ferns, double water-tight pots for 

 aquatic plants, and, above all, ornamental 

 pota that may be used in windows with- 

 out disgracing them. The cause for com- 

 plaint is rapidly disappearing; the want has 

 at last created a supply, and numerous ex- 

 amples of inventive ingenuity — as applied 

 to this branch of manufacture — claim the 

 attention of the horticulturist. We shall 

 now draw the attention of our readers to a 

 few of those which appear to us most im- 

 portant to amateurs, and, first, let us dis- 

 pose of those made rather for use than 

 ornament, because the raising of plants 

 must take precedence of the displaying of 

 them. 



pascall's seakale and propagating 



POTS 



Are the invention of Mr. Fry, and are 

 manufactured by Joseph Pascall, of the 



inches inside. Round the top edge is a rim, 

 which, with the inside edge, forms a groove, 

 into which fits another pot, inverted, so as 

 to ensure total darkness to the plant for the 

 purpose of blanching. In seakale and as- 

 paragus forcing, the plants are taken up and 

 potted into these pots. The covers are put 

 on, and the pots plunged in the fermenting 

 material, and the crop is raised and taken in 

 a most convenient and cleanly manner. 

 We have used them also to blanch dande- 

 lion in spring, and, as a very moderate heat 

 is sufficient for that plant, a half-spent bed 

 and a few of these pots suffice to supply the 

 table for a considerable time with one of the 

 most elegant and acceptable of salads. The 

 cutting pots are represented on either side 

 of the seakale pot. They are made on the 

 same principle, but, instead of a dark pot, a 

 bell-glass is fitted in the groove, and the 

 cuttings may be planted close over the 

 whole surface, giving but little trouble as to 

 watering or other attention, and ensuring 

 their more certain striking. These also 

 make excellent fern-pots — they are, in fact, 

 Wardian cases in miniature, and when suit- 

 ably planted, their appearance is very ele- 

 gant, owing to their neat shape and the fine 

 red ware in which they are cast. We have 

 used them for three years past, and have 

 now a large collection of ferns, mosses, and 

 lycopods, growing in them most luxuriantly. 

 For hymenophyllums, trichomanes, dionseaa 



West Kent Potteries, Chislehurst, Kent. 

 In the engraving, the seakale pot is repre- 

 sented in section, with a plant in the centre. 

 It measures thirteen inches outside and nine 



Droseras, and, indeed, fine foliaged plants 

 of all kinds, they are invaluable ; for, while 

 they enclose the plant in a moist air, and 

 keep its foliage untouched by dust, they also 



