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large heavy pots are apt to be broken in handling them 
and their cost is considerable compared with the prices 
of the smaller sizes. Unless in the case of large speci- 
mens, such as Palms, Century Plants, Oleanders, ete., 
the sizes from two and a half to twelve inches in diame- 
ter are large enough for all practical purposes. There 
are many manufacturers of pottery in the South, but 
none that we know of that make flower pots a specialty, 
especially the smaller sizes, which are so important and 
so generally used, and not having the machinery suitable 
for the manufacture of the smaller sizes cannot compete 
with the prices of the large flower pot manufacturers of 
the Middle States. All the pots used on this place come ~ 
from the pottery of MApps BROTHERS, Winton Place, 
Ohio. They make good pots and are clever and honora- 
ble gentlemen to deal with. Their prices are the lowest 
we know of, and the freight rate from Cincinnati by rail 
or river to all points in the South are most reasonable. 
To all parties desiring to make a purchase of pots we 
cheerfully recommend them, and know any business 
entrusted to them will be most satisfactory. We make 
this statement because we have daily in the Spring and 
Fall inquiries about pots, and receive small orders for 
them to be sent by express. This is unsatisfactory to us, 
as well as to our customers, as paying express charges on 
flower pots is an expensive game that the parties seldom 
discover until the express man delivers them at their 
door. The charges are always more than twice the value 
of the pots, which makes the customer dissatisfied, and 
consequently not satisfactory to us. If all the ladies 
would club together in a community and order all the 
pots they wanted shipped by freight in one shipment, 
the cost would be Jight and satisfaction would be assured. 
These statements are made for the benefit of the readers © 
of this little volume, as by corresponding with any of the 
parties mentioned here more information can be had 
upon their respective line of appliances and requisites 
than could be written in a hundred pages of this book. 
