. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. FLO 229 FLO Thirty-twos ) (32s) ] Twenty-fours ) (24s) ^ Sixteens (16s) . Twelves (12s) . Eights (8s) . . Sixes (6s) . . Fours (4s) . . Twos (2s) 6 81 91 lU 12 13 15 IS , 9 , 10 11 12 13 14 6 8 9 II 12 13 15 18 Dr. Lindley has proposed a very judicious change in the nomenclature of flower pots, by suggesting that they should be called according to their great- It was formerly considered important to have the pots made of a material as porous as possible; but a more misera- ble delusion never was handed down untested from one generation to an- othe
. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. FLO 229 FLO Thirty-twos ) (32s) ] Twenty-fours ) (24s) ^ Sixteens (16s) . Twelves (12s) . Eights (8s) . . Sixes (6s) . . Fours (4s) . . Twos (2s) 6 81 91 lU 12 13 15 IS , 9 , 10 11 12 13 14 6 8 9 II 12 13 15 18 Dr. Lindley has proposed a very judicious change in the nomenclature of flower pots, by suggesting that they should be called according to their great- It was formerly considered important to have the pots made of a material as porous as possible; but a more misera- ble delusion never was handed down untested from one generation to an- other. Stoneware and chinaware are infinitely preferable, for they keep the roots more uniformly moist and warm. Common garden pots if not plunged, should be thickly painted. Mr. W. P. Ayres recommends large pots to be employed, and there is no doubt that this is a system much abridging the gardener's labour; but as with due care est diameter. At present the words small pots will produce magnificent "Fours," " Sixes," &c., intend no more specimen plants, I cannot recommend than that there are so many to the cast, an adoption of large pots, ensuring as a piece of information conveying nothing they do such an immense sacrifice of worth knowing:—butby the newnomen- room in the hot and green-houses. Cap- clature, " Eighteens," will be pots of tain ThurtcU, the most successful of eighteen inches in diameter; " Fif-' growers of the Pelargonium, never teens," fifteen inches, and so on; it employs pots larger than twenty-fours, occupies the third column in the pre- It is usual to have saucers in which ceding table. to place flower pots when in the house. The above are about the sizes in and so far as preventing stains and the inches, for at each pottery they rather i occurrence of dirt, they are deserving differ in size, and none of the pots adoption; but as to their being used for shrink exactly alike during the burning. ! applying water to pl
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