II. POTS AND SAUCERS 



HILE the ordinary clay 

 pot is doubtless as sat- 

 isfactory as anything 

 that can be used to grow 

 plants in, all things con- 

 sidered, I would not 

 say the severe things 

 against glazed pots that many writers on flori- 

 culture do. These have been condemned as 

 positively harmful but I have failed to find them 

 so. The injurious effects charged to them I 

 believe were due to other causes. In the green- 

 house, where the air is kept constantly moist, 

 a pot porous enough to allow moisture to 

 evaporate freely from the soil is, no doubt, 

 the proper thing to use. But in the living- 

 room, where the air is more or less dry, I 

 consider a glazed pot not at all objectionable, 

 since its glazing interferes with the too rapid 

 evaporation that would naturally take place 

 in a room pretty sure to be overheated. We 

 often see fine plants growing in old tin cans, 

 noseless pitchers, and other articles of pottery 



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