POT 



V O T 



The several siz^s are in regular grail. . 

 ze having us name f.>r the convenien I 

 readily supply" *s wanted ly>r particular 



- reckoacd by the cast at the 

 houses, from two to sixty pots to each, ac- 

 cording to .heir sizes, the largest having only 

 two to a cast, and the smallest sixty ; so that, 

 . of eight different sizes or casts, thev are 

 led bv the following terms, twos, 

 eights, twelves, sixteens, twenty-fours, thirty- 

 twos, forts-eights, and sixties ; the several 

 casts from the twos being in a gradual diminu- 

 tion in size, and the price of the different casts 

 is the same ; those of two, &c, being as much 

 as those of sixty, and so of the rest : from two 

 to three shillings is the general price per cast at 

 the potteries in the vicinity of London. 



In garden pots there is also a particular shal- 

 low sort of a wide, squat, pan-form make, 

 used on some occasions, especially among the 

 mvrtle-gardcncr* in the neighbourhood of Lon- 

 don, in raising great quantities of these plants 

 annually, in order to have alwavs a regular suc- 

 cession advanced to proper growth, for the mar- 

 kets. These kinds of wide shallow pan-pots 

 are employed to prick or plant out the requisite 

 supplies of numerous small myrtle cuttings, in 

 summer, Sec., for annual propagation, and 

 which are commonly called store-pans. 



In these store-pans thev generally prick a 

 great number of such small slips or cuttings, at 

 only about an inch or two apart, often to the 

 amount of hundreds in each, just to- strike them, 

 and remain two or three months or more, till 

 advanced a little in growth ; in which time the 

 pans thus stored are convenient for removing 

 to different situations required, such as, at first 

 planting or afterwards, either into a hot-bed, 

 whereby to strike the cuttings more expedi- 

 tiously, or for the same advantage, when in 

 want of hot-beds, to be placed under a garden- 

 frame and lights, or under hand-glasses, either 

 with or without a hot-bed ; and also for remov- 

 ing to a green-house or garden-frame, for pro- 

 tection in winter, Sec, all of which being thus 

 continued in them, according to the proL 

 growth which they make; so that, when they 

 discover themselves to be well struck in bottom 

 radicles and have shot a little top, they may be 

 pricked out separately into small pots, or occa- 

 sionally three, four, or five in larger ones, for a 

 year, then separated as above, or sometimes 

 bedded out in the spring in beds of natural earth, 

 six or eight inches apart, to acquire an advanced 

 state of growth till autumn, and then potted off 

 sing! v. 



The same kind of pan-pots are also useful for 

 several other purposes of propagation, both to 



sow seeds and plant small cuttii . fcc. 



in, of tender exotics, and ol 



of curious or particular kinds ol ith of 



the green-house, hot-house, and ; 

 ground, in order to have similar culture a 

 above. These pan-pots are from ten lo Iw 

 or fourteen inches in width, and about six ii 

 deep, having holes at bottom as in the 

 kind. And another sort ( f pot of different • 

 Irom the general kind is sometimes used I- r 

 planting some kinds of bulbous roots in. 

 for blowing in the apartments of the h 

 they are narrow and upright, of equal width 

 from bottom to top, six, eight, or ten inches 

 deep, or a little more, and from three to four or 

 five inches in width ; and are occasionally 

 for planting bulbs of the Guernsey lily and • 

 other similar kinds, to blow in autumn and 

 winter, in the windows or on the chimney-piece 

 of the dwelling or sitting-room, or in a green- 

 bouse, or hftt-house, kc, as thev appear neat, 

 and admit of being placed close, or in 2 smaller 

 space than the common pots, one bulb being 

 planted in each ; they being previously filled 

 with light sandy earth to near the top. 

 Planting in Pots. 



All these several sorts of pots may be obtained 

 at th .■ potteries in the different parts of the king- 

 dom. 



In choosing the pots it is necessary to see 

 that they are burnt sufficiently hard, and so per- 

 fectly sound as to ring when struck with your 

 knuckles, and that they have all holes at the 

 bottom to discharge the superfluous moisture 

 from the earth about the roots of the plants, 

 the larger sorts having generally four holes, one 

 in the middle of the bottom, and three around 

 the circumference, at equal distances ; but the 

 smaller kinds commonly only one in the middle 

 of the bottom. 



In respect to the sizes of pots that are proper 

 for the different sorts of plants, it is commonly 

 mentioned in the culture of the plants where any 

 particular sizes are necess irv. 



Where small pots are advised, it is generally 

 to be understood either as sixties, forty-eight-, 

 or thirty-twos, according to the sorts or sizes 

 of the plants that are to be potted. 



POTTING ok PLANTS. The operation el 

 placingor planting different sorts of plants, roots, 

 and cuttings, See , in pots. In this business 

 more care and attention is necessary than is ge- 

 nerally bestowed. 



POT- HERBS, such as are used for different 

 culinary purposes, consisting of different sort* 

 of the small aromatic kind, and some others 

 But in a more general signification they com- 

 prehend many of the other kitchen garden vege- 

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