. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1937. Pots of various sizes. All are " standard " pots except the rimless one at the right, whicla is a " rose pot.'' straight pot for it, but I am oblig:ed to pull the pile over before I can find one. When I do find one it is sure to be of such a soft burn that it will hardly hold
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1937. Pots of various sizes. All are " standard " pots except the rimless one at the right, whicla is a " rose pot.'' straight pot for it, but I am oblig:ed to pull the pile over before I can find one. When I do find one it is sure to be of such a soft burn that it will hardly hold ; We would then examine some of the choice subjects in his greenhouse, and they were sure to be in warped and cracked pots. "Such a pot sjjoils the sale of a plant unless I repot ; This was before the day of standard pots. When the Society of American Florists met at Washington in 1892 the writer spent several hours in the greenhouses of the various departments. To say that many of the flower pots looked as if they belonged to that class of pottery found in the Indian mounds of Mexico would be a reflection on the aborigines. The poor preparation of poor materials is a feature of the thousands of inferior flower pots that flood our markets. The practical florists were long ago convinced t'hat the best pots are the cheapest. Grades of clay used in the manufacture of flower pots are almost as numerous as the banks in which they are found, and require many different methods of treatment. To separate the stones from the clay has always been a very perplexing as well as expensive problem. The clay is first plowed by means of a horse and capstan, whereby one horse will do the work of twenty men with picks. This clay is then loaded in dump carts and carried to the mill, where it is shoveled through a disintegrator, which expels the larger stones and crushes the smaller ones. It then falls on an endless belt and is carried to a revolving drier. This is a new western device,
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