Improved Garden Pot. 



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Art. IV. Notice of an improved Garden Pot. By Thomas Carey 

 Palmer, Esq., F.H.S. &c. 



Fig. 23. represents a kind of garden pot made of common 

 clay, at the cost of 4^. 6d. per cwt., many of which I have been 

 using for the last twelve months. I find that they do not blow 



down in windy weather; 

 that they do not allow worms 

 to enter when standing: on 

 the ground ; and that those 

 worms which happen to be 

 in the mould before it is 

 put into the pot escape at 

 the bottom hole, without, as 

 it were, sealing it up, and 

 making it water-logged, 

 and, besides, without the 

 power of entering again 

 through the same hole ; so' 

 that this pot is not only a 

 preservative against worms, 

 but a means of getting rid 

 of them where they exist in the soil, or by any accident get into 

 it. These pots are also useful for plants which require to be 

 protected from the approach of ants and many other insects, as 

 they can stand in a pan of water without wetting the roots ; and, 

 although not a cultivator of heaths myself, I am inclined to 

 think they might be beneficially used in hot weather for those 

 plants to keep the roots cool over water without rotting them. 

 These pots were made, at my suggestion, by Mr. Marshall, near 

 Counter Hill, New Cross, Lewisham Road. The form is, as 

 you know, not new ; but I believe it has never been used for 

 common pots. 



Bromley, Kenty March 22. 1835. 



Art. V. On the Distribution and Choice of Trees in a Parity •with 

 reference to Landscape-Gardening. By Mr. R. Glendinning, 

 Gardener to Lord Rolle. 



A PARK is a garden, or rather pleasure-ground, on a larger 

 scale ; and if the principle of arranging trees with a view to pro- 

 duce effect by grouping them is acknowledged in the pleasure- 

 grounds, why should it not be equally so in the park? By 

 assigning the proper situation of trees, and giving an outline of 

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