OPERATIONS OF GARDENING. 



PAKT I. 



wood, or copper-wire, or cocoanut liusk, of various elegant 

 devices, are made for containing them, as well as sometimes 

 perforated earthenware vessels. 



Billbergias and their allies, Sir J. Paxton has observed, sus- 

 pended, with a small ball of moss tied round their roots, bloom 

 almost immediately, while other and similar specimens have 

 been several years in pots without flowering. Kusselia juncea, 

 he remarks also, is well known to look best when hung up in 

 a pot. 



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For ornamental shrubs and perennials there is nothing, as I 

 think, that looks better than an ordinary flower-pot, kept scrupu- 

 lously clean. Absolute cleanliness and neatness in a garden 

 are, after all, infinitely better than all decorations. In a filthy 

 pot the handsomest plant fails of being agreeable. The inner 

 side of the husk of a cocoanut is a capital thing for scrubbing a 

 flower-pot with when it has become soiled and dirty, 



KING-POTS. These are merely large earthenware cylinders, 

 about a foot and a half in diameter and two feet long. They 

 are let into the earth to about half their length ; the remaining 

 half projecting above ground is filled nearly to the rim with 

 soil, and has an ornamental shrub of some kind planted in it. 

 The native gentlemen of Bengal are very fond of growing 

 their choice plants in these, particularly arranged in rows. 

 Several Europeans adopt the practice likewise ; but to me they 

 present far from a pleasing appearance. 



