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General Notices. 



Fig. 16. Mr. BrowiVs Floiver- 

 pot with double closed Sides. 



reader is aware that plants will be prevented from suffering from want of 

 water when the vacuity is filled, and from having so much heat as usual 

 carried off by evaporation from the sides of the 

 pot when the vacuity is empty. Such pots are 

 peculiarly suited for plants in rooms, and they 

 might be rendered clean-looking or ornamental by 

 being glazed externally. Care should be taken, 

 however, not to glaze them of a green colour, 

 nor to endeavour to render them ornamental by 

 coloured imitations of flowers, or other natural 

 objects, for reasons that we need not here insist 

 on. The colour may be of stone or brick, and 

 the ornaments, if any, should be sculptures, not 

 paintings. (See Quatremere de Quincy On Imita- 

 tion .) 



Scnirs Fountain Floiver-pot (Jig. 17.) has hollow sides with a stopper, and 

 it supplies the plant with water on the same principle that a glass fountain 

 supplies a bird in a cage. An outer basin is made on the bottom of the pot, 

 to which the water enters at a, and is carried round the pot in the basin, 

 there being two or three 

 holes through the bottom 

 of the pot, as seen at h b b. 

 By these means the water 

 is drawn up from the basin 

 by the roots of the plants ; 

 or, if it should be desirable 

 to prevent it from being 



drawn up, the exterior ori- 

 fices of the holes which 



open into the basin or 



saucer can be closed. The 



fountain is supplied with 



water by taking out the 



stopper c, the entrance into 



the basin at a being at that 



moment closed ; and, as 



soon as the water runs over 



at c, the cork or stopper 



of that orifice is put in, and the stopper at a removed. This pot is the inven- 

 tion of Mr. Saul of Garstang, who sent the above description, and the sketch 



from which the engraving is made, on Dec. 3,, 



and who informed us at the time that he had 



had them both some weeks by him. — Cond. 

 Stephens's Plant-protecting Flower-jiot, ivith 



double Rim, of which fig. 18. is a section, was 



sent to us by Mr. James Stephens of Carr 



House, near Doncaster, a gardener who has 



read this Magazine from its commencement. 



It was sent in April last, but we did not receive 



it till Dec. 29. This pot not only supplies the 



plant with moisture where it is most wanted, 



but serves as a plant-protector, as there are but 



few creeping insects that will venture to cross ^ig- 18. Stephens's Double-rimmed 

 „ " .° , , , , , Flower-pot. 



from one rim to the other when the space be- 

 tween is fidl of water. For plants that stand out in the open ground, Mr. 

 Stephens has the pots made with two small holes, one on each side, half an 

 inch from the bottom ; and as there are no holes in the bottom, worms can- 

 not get into the pots, nor can the roots of the plants root through these 

 holes into the ground ; advantages both of which are of no mean importance. 



Fig. 17. Saul's Fountain. Flower-pot. 



