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212 Pots, HOLLOW-SIDED. It being difficult, by words, to describe 
even simple instruments or apparatus so clearly as is desirable, 
we present our readers with a delineation of Mr. Brown’s 
patent double-sided flower-pot. It resembles one pot within 
another, a hollow space being formed between the two, for 
water; with an aperture by which it maybe filled. As the 
inside pot is bevelled off to meet the exteiior one, a thin edge 
is formed, preventing any clumsiness of appearance when in 
use. 
It has been said that “In the 
multitude of counsellors there is 
safety ; ” we will therefore take 
the liberty of transcribing the 
remarks of Dr. Lindley, as they 
appear in the Gardeners’ Chro- 
nicle, of December 3rd, 1842; 
and those of a Correspondent, 
in the same paper; and then 
offer a few observations founded 
on our own experience. The Doctor says, “We regard this as 
a contrivance of very great value. Everybody knows how 
much plants suffer during summer, from the heat and dryness 
of the pots in which they are growing, and how frequently it 
is required to obviate the inconvenience, by placing one pot 
within another, or by surrounding them with moss, or by 
plunging them in soil. All this is rendered unnecessary by 
the contrivance in question ; for, if the sides of the pot are left 
empty, the stratum of air contained in them will prevent the 
earth from becoming heated ; and, if they are filled with water, 
the inconvenience of over-watering, on the one hand, or over- 
drying, on the other, will be prevented in summer, because 
water will be continually filtering slowly through the inside 
lining as the roots require it. The latter reason will make it 
invaluable for striking cuttings, and for window gardens, 
where it is almost impossible to keep plants duly supplied with 
moisture, even if the servants entrusted with the duty would 
give themselves the trouble to attend to it.” His corres- 
pondent says, “If water be introduced between the sides of this 
kind of pot, its inner surface will be always wet : and so the 
young roots will receive too much fluid, so that they will rot, 
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