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Thirty-twos ) 

 (32s) ] 



Twenty-fours ) 

 (24s) ^ 



Sixteens (16s) . 



Twelves (12s) . 



Eights (8s) . . . 



Sixes (6s) . . . 



Fours (4s) . . . 



Twos (2s) 



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 12 

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 11 

 12 

 13 

 14 



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9 

 II 

 12 

 13 

 15 

 18 



Dr. Lindley has proposed a very 

 judicious change in the nomenclature 

 of flower pots, by suggesting that they 

 should be called according to their great- 



It was formerly considered important 

 to have the pots made of a material as 

 porous as possible; but a more misera- 

 ble delusion never was handed down 

 untested from one generation to an- 

 other. Stoneware and chinaware are 

 infinitely preferable, for they keep the 

 roots more uniformly moist and warm. 

 Common garden pots if not plunged, 

 should be thickly painted. Mr. W. P. 

 Ayres recommends large pots to be 

 employed, and there is no doubt that 

 this is a system much abridging the 

 gardener's labour; but as with due care 



est diameter. At present the words small pots will produce magnificent 

 "Fours," " Sixes," &c., intend no more specimen plants, I cannot recommend 

 than that there are so many to the cast, an adoption of large pots, ensuring as 

 a piece of information conveying nothing they do such an immense sacrifice of 

 worth knowing: — butby the newnomen- room in the hot and green-houses. Cap- 

 clature, " Eighteens," will be pots of tain ThurtcU, the most successful of 

 eighteen inches in diameter; " Fif- ' growers of the Pelargonium, never 

 teens," fifteen inches, and so on; it employs pots larger than twenty-fours, 

 occupies the third column in the pre- It is usual to have saucers in which 

 ceding table. to place flower pots when in the house. 



The above are about the sizes in and so far as preventing stains and the 

 inches, for at each pottery they rather i occurrence of dirt, they are deserving 

 differ in size, and none of the pots adoption; but as to their being used for 

 shrink exactly alike during the burning. ! applying water to plants, they are worse 



At some of the country potteries, , than useless. The great difficulty in 

 also, the gradation and size are some- | pot-cultivation is to keep tlie drainage 

 what different. Thus, at Mr. Paul's regular, and no more effective pre- 

 Pottery, near Fareham, Hants, the sizes I ventive of this could be devised than 



are the following: 



In. diam. 

 at top. 



In. 

 deep. 



Thimbles are, inside . 2 



Thumbs 2^ 



Seventy-twos 3 



Sixties 3i 



Forty-eights 4^ 



Thirty-twos 5 



Twenty-fours .... 6 



Sixteens 7i 



Twelves 8 



Eights 10 



Sixes Hi 



Fours 14 



Twos 16 



Thimbles are sometimes called "small 

 nineties," and thumbs, 

 ties." 



Fig. 46. 



keeping a pot in a saucer containinj 

 water. No plan could be invented 

 more contrary to nature ; for we all 

 know that she supplies moisture to the 

 surface of the soil, and allows it to 

 descend, thus supplying thetipper roots 

 first. To facilitate draining, and yet 

 to retain the tidi- 

 ness secured by the 

 saucer, Mr. Hunt has 

 had flowerpots made 

 with elevations, on 

 which the pots are 

 placed. (Fig. 46.) 

 But this is not the 

 only advantage de- 

 rivable from them. 

 ' large nine- They prevent the 

 entry of worms, may 



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 11 

 12} 

 14 

 15 



The Philadelphia potters have long ' be employed with 

 pursued the plan proposed by Dr. Lind- common stands, allow a current of air 

 ley, and those at distant points who may to pass beneath them, and their form is 

 desire to order, have only to express the elegant, 

 size in inches, i. e., the diameter at top. 1 Mr. Brown (Fig. 47) has proposed a 



The form and material also vary. ' pot with hollow sides, the vacuity to 

 Mr. Beck makes them very successful- be filled with water through a hole in 

 ly of slate; and the prejudice against the rim, or left empty, as occasion re- 

 glazed pots is now exploded. quires. The water, he considers, will 



