This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V20", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
As it is apt to confuse some of the readers of the Gardener's Monthly, when reading extracts from English gardening papers, in which the sizes of flower pots are too often technically enumerated, I beg to herewith append a table which, I trust, may be of service to them:
Thumbs, 2 in. to 2½ in.; sixty's (60's), 3 in.; forty-eight's (48's), 4½ in.; thirty-two's (32's), 6 in.; twenty-four's (24's), 8 in.; sixteen's, (16's), 9½ in.; twelve's (12's), 11½ in.; eight's (8's), 12 in.; six's (6's), 13 in.; four's, (4's), 15 in.; two's (2's), 10 in.
 
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