| Show how flower pots poll are wade what becomes of all the flowers in winter a florist was asked the answer was that mandof many of the choicer ones onca were potted and housed during tile winter months for the manufacture of flower pots earthen clay is used of a fine quality which burns red the smallest flower pot made is two inches in diameter and an the largest sixteen n the potter forms his clay into balls 0 of f convenient and suitable size he dips his hands in water and having placed the lump of clay upon men I 1 liis wheel he opens it and deftly draws it up to a gauge so fixed in the shaft of the wheel as to indicate tile dimensions of the pot desired sired the wheel itself is idof of solid plank eighteen inches in diameter it is set upon a revolving shaft which is worked by a treadle this is the only machinery use used d by potters and with the exception of sonic some sli slight I 1 it alterations in the treadle it his has rem remained dined the same for upward of years the flower pots are either sun dried or dried in an oven moderately heated when they ire are ready for the kiln here they are placed in ill nests and are allowed to remain from a day and a half to two days if very hard ones are wanted they remain longer in the kiln and the fire is kept at a white heat beat surprisingly few are broken during the process of manufacture or in transportation flower pots range in ill price from 5 to a thousand according to their size there is hardly a dwelling in the city that does not contain one or more flower pots even the poorest tenement has a few plants in the window many thousands are broken every year and replaced in the llie fall and potters are always busy vases urns and other fancy receptacles tor for flowers aro are made ii many designs new york evening sun |
