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small stock for annual repairs ; but it is found by ex- 

 perience that the most effectual mode, and the cheap- 

 est in the end, is to pave the platform with flag- 

 stones, or form a flooring of broken bricks and Roman 

 cement. 



The next stock article which we shall mention is 

 pots and saucers. There should be a stock of pots of 

 all the sizes in common use, but chiefly from two to 

 six inches in diameter as those most generally adopted 

 in the green-house : there should also be a few saucers 

 or flats for each of the different sizes of pots, in case 

 of taking any plant while in flower into the living- 

 rooms. Both pots and saucers must be kept quite 

 dry in a shed formed on purpose for holding different 

 stock articles, and for the operations of potting, pro- 

 pagating, cleaning plants, &c. 



Fresh green moss for putting on the surface of pots 

 taken into the drawing-room; mats for protection, 

 and for supplying ribbons for ties ; fine black flaxen 

 threads for ties ; fine wire for the same purpose ; neat 

 tapered rods of all sizes, painted green, to be used as 

 props; small wire props, nails, lists, a brush and 

 sponge for cleaning leaves, and a variety of other ar- 

 ticles in common use in gardening, should be at hand 

 in moderate quantities. 



Tobacco to be consumed in smoke for destroying 

 insects ; sulphur for strewing over plants attacked by 

 the mildew; soft soap for washing off' the scale; 

 brushes for applying the last, and a fumigating bel- 

 lows for the first, are also requisite. 



