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much, that while in the first size there are only two pots to a cast, in 

 the tenth size there are sixty, as in the following table : 



These are the sizes of the London potters ; but at Liverpool the sizes 

 and the proportions are somewhat different. The sizes are from No. 1, 

 which is 20 inches in height and diameter, to No. 37, which is 2 inches 

 in height and diameter, as shown in fig. 59. About London the sizes of 



Fig. 59. 



Relative Sizes of garden-pots at Liverpool. 



pots in most general use are, twenty-fours, which are 5 inches in diameter 

 and 6 inches deep ; thirty-twos, which are 4 inches in diameter and 

 5 inches deep ; and forty-eights, which are 3 inches in diameter and 

 4 inches deep. 



So many complaints have been made about the uncertainty of size 

 of the pots made by different makers, that an attempt was made by 

 Dr. Lindley, in the * Gardener's Chronicle ' for 1845, p. 83, to remedy 

 this evil. It was suggested by a correspondent that the term " cast" 

 should be dropped, and the word " inch" substituted in its place. Every 

 size to be henceforth named by the number of inches it measures 

 across the top. This plan has now been generally adopted, and pots 

 are ordered as 3, 6, 8, &c. inch pots, instead of sixties, forty-eights, 

 thirty-twos, &c. The following table will make the matter plain, and 

 will secure uniformity of size : 



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