This section is from the book "The Gardener V2", by William Thomson. Also available from Amazon: The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener.
The object in placing a little dry moss over the crocks at the bottom of pots is to keep the soil out of them, and by that means secure more perfect drainage. Thanks for the seeds. We do not know them, but will endeavour to germinate them. You should sow yours in a pot, and place it in a dung-frame: this will cause the seeds to vegetate, if anything will.
We have just received the balance-sheet of the "United Horticultural Benefit and Provident Society," and we are very much pleased to observe that there is a balance in the hands of the treasurer of £507, 14s. 6d. Any one desirous of procuring the rules of this society can do so through Mr Glendinning of the Chiswick Nursery, who is the treasurer; or of Mr Wm. Heale, 60 Margaret Street, Wilmington Square, W.C.
 
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