flower-potful

When you go to your florist for a flower-potful of his best plant soil don’t think he is defrauding you if he offers a rough-looking article, and ask for some that is finer.

1884 December 21, “Offered in the Bud”, in Sunday Express, Buffalo, N.Y., page 8

The quantity to apply is about a tree-inch flower-potful per square yard, or about a half-stone per square pole.

1918 April 19, “Allotment Gardens”, in Newcastle Daily Journal and Courant, 208th year, number 22,740, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, page 5

Another person owns a flower-potful of earth on his window-sill—but he has to pay rent for the space it occupies.

1918 November 30, R. Shaw, “Monopoly to Follow the Knock-Out of Despotism”, in Middleton Guardian, number 2,405, page 2

Old lawns should be renovated in early spring by covering them with a one-inch layer of equal parts good loam and pulverized peatmoss to which is added a six-inch flower-potful of both bone flour and ground sheep manure.

1931 March 9, “Gardener’s Notes”, in Wausau Daily Record-Herald, volume XXIV, number 83, Wausau, Wis., page nine

Before commencing to layer, take the precaution of lightly forking the soil round the parent plant, mixing in a medium flower-potful of loam, sand, and leaf-mould to stimulate the plants.

1931 July 28, “To-day in the Garden”, in The Midland Daily Telegraph, volume LXXXII, number 12,530, Coventry, page 2