POTTING. 
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POTTING. 
heat of the sun, ihe pot is plunged 
in soil, or in moss, or some other 
porous matter, or the pots are placed 
sufficiently near together to shade 
one another. Different kinds of 
piamis require different degrees of 
drainage, and of protection from the 
sides of the pot. For example, all 
Orchidaceous _ plants, succulenis, 
and hair-rosted plants, such as the 
Ericacez, require a great deal of 
drainage ; and all the plants which 
require rich moist soil, such as the 
Scitaminez, and many of the most | 
vigorous-growing tropical herbace- 
ous plants, require the sides of the 
pot to be protected by plunging it | 
_as the size of the ball was when put 
into the ground, by which means. 
in tan, sand, ashes, soil, moss, or 
some other nonconducting medium, 
which shall not be readily permeable 
by drought or heat. 
With respect to the operation of 
potting plants, when seedlings or 
plants newly rotted by cuttings, 
layers, or other means, are to be 
* of the least size, or a size somewhat 
larger, according to the bulk of the 
plant to be planted, or its known 
bottom of the pot being covered 
with one or more potsherds, and 
with some rough, turfy, rooty, or 
mossy matter, or with coarse gravel, 
some soil is put in over it. On this 
placed and spread out, and soil is 
placed over them till the pot is 
filled, as before mentioned under the 
article pLantinc. The soil in the 
pot is then consolidated by shaking, 
and lifting it up, and setting it down 
once or twice with a jar, the soil | 
_age, the plant to be changed is turned 
out of the first pot by turning it up- 
stick as already mentioned. Plants | 
of larger size without balls of earth | 
round the edge of the pot being ren- 
dered firm by the thumb, or by a 
| potted. 
| especially requisite for such strong- 
potied, a small pot is chosen, either | 
| Fuchsia fulgens, Scarlet Pelargoni- 
| ums, Stocks, Wallflowers, &c. All 
plants after beimg newly potted 
vigour of growth. The hole in the | 
bail entire, require co 
one out of which the pl 
in the free soil during summer, such 
as Pelargoniums, Fuchsias, Myr- 
tles, and such other plants as are 
turned out of pots into the open 
garden in the beginning of summer, 
and taken up and repotted about 
the latter end of autumn, are com- 
monly taken up with balls; and, 
when this is the case, the pot cho- 
sen must be of sufficient size to 
admit ef the ball of earth without 
breaking it. Previously to the taking 
up of these plants, more especially 
when they have grown with great 
vigour, it is found advantageous to 
cut the roots all round about the 
same distance from the main stem, 
the plant receives a check before 
it is taken up, and is prepared to 
endure the still greater check which 
it will unavoidably receixe when 
This precaution is more 
growing plants as the Brugmansias, 
should receive a sufficient quantity 
of water to moisten the whole of 
the soil in the pot; and all of them 
require to be shaded, to prevent ex- 
cessive transpiration till they have 
begun to grow. 
the roots of the young plants are | 
transplanted into other pots with the 
Plants in pots which are to be 
mparatively 
little care. The new pot should be 
at least one size larger the old 
taken, and, being p 
and some mould put over 
side down, holding the left hand on 
the surface of the soil in the pot, and 
attached to the roots, are planted with the neck of the plant between 
exactly in the same manner, ex- the two middle fingers, while the 
cepting that the pots chosen are | 
larger, in proportion to the size of right hand; and then 
the plant. Plants which have grown | loosened by the edge of th 
bottom of the pot is held with the 
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