GLAZED POTS FOR PLANTS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1867, 17 February 1880, Page 2

GLAZED POTS FOR PLANTS.

Glazed pots are condemned by most writers. The majority of these writers are greenhouse men, or those with but little experience with growing plants in the dry air of our parlors and living rooms ; and in watering, those in glazed pots would naturally receive the same supply ss these in common porous pots alongside. The evaporation from the porous pots would take place much more rapidly than from the glazed, and the one would be comparatively dry while the other would be still wet. The next watering repeats this process, and the result is quickly seen. The plant in the glazed pot perishes at once, or drags out a sickly, miserable existence. Glazed pots can be used with good results in the parlor or living room. If the drainage is good, so that the surplus water can pass eff, there are many plants that will grow well in them. To this may be added that many people are very irregular in watering house plants. They forget to attend to it until the dry and parched appearance of the earth admonishes them of their neglect. Of course the plant in the u-glazed pot suffers worst under this treatment, for the earth gets dry from top to bottom, while in the glazed pat, the great bulk of the earth, being protected from rapid evaporation, may remain comparatively moist, though the top is dry.— “ Journal of Chemistry.”