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LXXI. Observations upon the most advantageous Form of 

 Garden Pots. By Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. 

 F. R. S. $c. President 



Read May 4, 1819. 



Mr . Williamson has pointed out, in the Horticultural 

 Transactions* the advantages obtained by frequently re- 

 moving young Balsam plants into pots of somewhat larger 

 size; and I have in a former communication^ stated, 

 that by similar management, with the use of green living 

 turf, I had occasioned a seedling Plum tree to shoot nine 

 feet seven inches in a single season. I have also sub- 

 sequently adopted, very extensively, the same mode of 

 practice with seedling plants of the Plum, Cherry, and 

 Peach, having found, that I could, at the same time, 

 greatly encrease the size of my plants in the first season, 

 and accelerate the period of their bearing fruit. These 

 experiments led me to endeavour to ascertain what form of 

 Pot could be used with most advantage ; and the practice 

 of some years has induced me to adopt, exclusively, the 

 form and proportions shewn in the annexed diagram. Ac- 

 cording to this, the width of each Pot at its top being as 

 eight, its depth will be as six, and its smallest width, at its 

 base, as five, inside measure ; and when a seedling tree, or 

 plant, is removed from a Pot of any given size to the next 

 above it, a space of an inch on each side, and of an inch 



* Page 127 of this volume. 



f Horticultural Transactions, Vol. I. page 248. 



