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forth will enable any one to form an idea of the waste of 

 heat. Glass can always be had cut to any shape and size, 

 and in new establishments we always reconmiend as much 

 as possible of the framing and roofing glass to be the 

 same size. 



Flo WEE-POTS. — The flower-pots are the most ancient of all 

 patterns of garden apparatus, unless we go to the tools, which 

 are now much the same as when the oldest book on gardening 

 was printed. Many attempts have been made to introduce 

 new fashions, and some of them were well enough if only 

 half a dozen instead of haK a thousand were wanted : but 

 there is nothing half so good as the old-fashioned pots, wider 

 at the mouth than at the bottom. These are made in sizes 

 called thumbs, which we may call two-inch pots, and sixties, 

 which are three-inch, and these are sold in casts, sixty to 

 the cast ; four-inch pots are forty-eight to the cast ; five-inch 

 are thirty-two to the cast ; six-inch, twenty-four to the cast ; 

 eight-inch, sixteen ; ten-inch, twelve ; and so on ; increasing 

 in size as they diminish in number to the cast, up to twenty- 

 fours. They are all of a price, retailed at about half-a-crown 

 to three shillings per cast : beyond that size, the price is 

 rather arbitrary. The pottery at Phillips's, Weston-super- 

 Mare, is conducted on another principle. His smallest are 

 No. 1, and he goes on with ISTos. 2, 3, 4, up to No. 20, which, 

 we believe, is twenty-two inches in diameter. These pots are 

 the best that can be made, and after years of usage will wash 

 and look Kke new. Even the great distance from the metro- 

 polis does not prevent many from using them in preference 

 to any other. Some of the splendid specimens at Kew are 

 growing in the Weston-super-Mare pots. Some pots have 

 been made with feet to stand in saucers, to keep the bottom 

 drain-hole out of the water that runs through ; for to stand 

 in water is death to many plants. Others have been made 

 with hollow sides, to be filled with water, that the sun may 

 not burn the young fibres next the side. Some are made 

 with gutters all round the top rim, that a glass shade may 

 cover the plant ; and the edge being in this gutter filled with 

 water, and so excludes the air, these are admirably adapted 

 for fern-growing in dwelling-houses ; each being, so far as 

 the plants are concerned, a small Wardian case : they are also 

 adapted for covers ; made of the same material as the pot, 

 they are to exclude the light : with these covers, sea-kail can 



