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the larger size, those less vigorous being content with 
pots nine inches in diameter. 
There are also the claims of smaller plants which are 
the result of a later period of propagation. Plants that 
were propagated rather late in the spring will not need 
pots so large in size as their earlier rivals. Many of the 
late February and March propagated plants may be 
flowered satisfactorily in pots eight inches in diameter, 
while those rooted still later will make very pretty plants 
if transferred from three-inch pots to those measuring six 
inches in diameter. The last to be propagated with the 
intention of making window or table plants of them, when 
in flower, will make pretty plants if transferred into pots 
five inches in diameter. Plants of this description are 
usually rooted in the late spring or early summer, and if 
care be observed in their culture, and they be stopped 
once or twice during the growing season, they should 
make bushy little specimens for the purpose just 
indicated. 
Take particular care to wash the pots thoroughly clean, 
leaving them to drain in a natural manner, and keep 
them in a cool condition. By this means a certain amount 
of moisture is retained by the pots, which, after all, are 
very porous, and this more natural way of drying them, 
too, will certainly serve the plants better. Crocks, too, 
have their value, and these should be scrupulously clean. 
Where oyster shells can be obtained (and, as a rule, they 
may be easily acquired from a local fishmonger), by all 
means use them in preference to other methods of making 
drainage. A flat one should be placed over the hole in 
the bottom of the pot, and the others arranged in regular 
order over this. 
Over the crocks arranged in the careful manner already 
advocated, place pieces of turfy loam, or any of the 
rougher portions of the soil, thus preventing any of the 
smaller particles of compost, subsequently placed in the 
pot, from working down into them and interfering with 
the drainage. A handful of soil should be placed over 
