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The several sizes are in regular gradation, 

 each size having its name for the convenience of 

 readily supplying the sizes wanted for particular 

 uses, being always reckoned by the cast at the 

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

 cording to their sizes, the largest having only 

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

 beini>; of eight different sizes or casts, they arc 

 ■distinguished by the foUowmg terms, twos, 

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

 twos, forty-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 

 myrtle-gardeners in the neighbourhood of Lon- 

 don, in raising great quantities of these plants 

 annually, in order to have always 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, 8cc., for annual propagation, and 

 which are conunonly called store-pans. 



In these store-pans they generally prick a 

 great number of such small slips or cuttings, at 

 ouly 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, &c., all of which being thus 

 (continued in them, according to the progress of 

 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 earthy 

 six or eight inches apart, to accjuiie an advanced 

 state of growth till autumn, and then potted off 

 singly. 



The same kind of pan-pots are also useful for 

 several other purposes of propagation, both to 



sow seeds and plant small cuttings, slips, Sec. 

 in, of tender exotics, and of various other sorts 

 of curious or particular kinds of plants, both of 

 the green-house, hot-house, and the open 

 ground, in order to have similar culture as the 

 above. These pan-pots are from ten to twelve, 

 or fourteen inches in width, and about six inches 

 deep, having holes at bottom as in the common 

 kind. And another sort of pot of difierent make 

 from the general kind is sometimes used for 

 planting some kinds of bulbous roots in, 

 for blowing in the apartments of the house ; 

 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 fom" or 

 live inches in width ; and are occasionally used 

 for planting bulbs of the Guernsey lily and some 

 other sinnlar kinds, to blow in autumn and 

 winter, in the windows or on the chimney-piece 

 of the dvi'elling or sitting-room, or in a green- 

 house, or hot-house, &c., as they appear neat, 

 and admit of being placed close, or in a smaller 

 space than the common pots, one bulb being- 

 planted in each ; they being previously filled 

 with light sandy earth to near the top. See 

 Planting in Pots. 



All these several sorts of pots may be obtained 

 at thj 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 plaSits, 

 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 necessary. 



Where small pots are advised, it is generally 

 to be understood either as sixties, forty-eights, 

 or thirty-twos, according to the sorts or sizes 

 of the plants that are to be potted. 



POTTIiNG OF PLANTS. The operation of 

 placingor planting different sorts of plants, roots, 

 and cuttings. Sec, in pots. In this business 

 more care and attention is necessary than is ge- 

 nerally bestowed. 



POt-IlERBS, such as arc used for different 

 culinary purposes, consisting of diifcrent sorts 

 of the small aromatic kind, and some others. 

 But in a more general signification they com- 

 prehend many of the other kitchen garden vegc- 

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