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the following simple plan may be adopted, and will be 

 found to combine all the advantages and conveniences 

 attending the use of pots, with the avoidance of the 

 evils of transplantation, &c. The plan referred to, 

 consists in the employment of turf or peat, so con- 

 trived as to supply the place of pots, and which of 

 course at the time of planting is simply placed, along 

 with the plant it contains, at once into the soil, without 

 in the least disturbing the roots, which, growing 

 through the substance of the turf, extend beyond it in 

 all directions into the free soil provided for them. 

 These turf pots are made of spongy, fibrous turf 

 whether loamy or peaty is not material, provided it is 

 full of fibre, so as to admit of being readily traversed 

 by the roots. The grassy surface is evenly removed, 

 and the under-turves are cut three or four inches in thick- 

 ness, and are then divided into squares of about three 

 inches across. The centre of each of these little 

 squares is taken out by means of an iron scoop, such as 

 that represented in the annexed sketch ; and this is 

 then filled up with soil, and the plant, or 

 seed, or cutting, or layer, inserted as if 

 it were into an ordinary flower pot. It- 

 will be obvious that by this plan, every 

 plant is independent and perfectly re- 

 movable thus securing the convenience 

 of sowing or planting and rearing the 

 plants in pots during their earliest stages: 

 on the other hand, at the time of plant- 

 ing out permanently, the plant, turf, and 

 all being set carefully into the soil, 

 no check is sustained, because the roots 

 remain undisturbed, and may. as they advance, pene- 

 trate through the turf into the prepared soil which 

 surrounds them ; in this way the advantages of sowing 



