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THE LADIES* MAGAZINE OF GARDENING. 
Besides these, ornamental china flower-pots have been constructed, in 
which the saucer is completely disguised, as shown in jigs. 52 and 53, 
Fig. 53. 
the engravings of 
which were lent to 
me by my kind 
friend, Captain Man¬ 
gles ; and in the vase 
flower-pot (e in jig. 
54), manufactured of 
red earth at Derby, 
and which is not more 
expensive than the 
common kinds. There 
are also propagating 
pots (a in jig. 54), 
for hanging round 
a branch of a tree ; 
pots with a raised 
bottom to prevent the entrance of worms (b and c) ; and channelled 
pots ( d ), to facilitate the escape of superfluous moisture. 
TULIP FLOWER-POT. 
ON THE EARTH-WORM. 
BY THE EDITOR. 
The common earth-worm (Lumbricus terrestris) has a long cylindrical 
body, composed of a hundred, or a hundred and fifty rings, by which it 
has the power of contracting its body at pleasure. Its head is only 
distinguished by being narrower and more pointed; and it has neither 
eyes nor horns. About thirty-two rings from the head there is a kind of 
protuberance, which forms a belt round the body, from six to nine rings 
broad. Every ring of the body is furnished with eight short spines or 
