Excerpt from The Gardener's Monthly, and Horticultural Advertiser, 1870, Vol. 12: Devoted to Horticulture, Arboriculture, Botany and Rural Affairs The soil for potting should be used rather dry; that is it should be in such a condition that it will rather crumble when pressed, than adhere closer together. Large pots - those over four inches should have a drainage. This is made by breaking up broken pets to the size of beans, putting them in the bottom a quarter or half an inch deep and putting about an eighth of an inch of old moss or any similar rough material over the mass of crocks to keep out the earth from amongst it. Little benefit arises from draining pots below four inch, the moisture filtering through the porous pots quite fast enough and the few pieces of drainage often thrown in with soil placed right over, is of little or no use. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.