And there they roosted, like evil birds, potting at our chaps whenever they got the chance, which was pretty often.
This special rick concealed in its very heart a son of the Fatherland, who had been having a truly glorious time in potting us.
By potting them low, and only just covering the roots at first, the stems of the plants become hardened, and strike very freely upwards: as the tap roots of a cucumber always decay when forced with a strong bottom heat.
Let the soil for potting off the plants be half leaf mould, and half light loam or bog earth.
Put the mould in the bed to chill, the day before potting off, and let it be of the same description as that in which the seed was sown.
They may be grown on in a similar temperature during the winter, but a little increase may be given immediately after potting off in February or March into three-inch pots.
Potting may begin in November, and may be continued at intervals for two or three months.
They should be placed in frames turned towards the north for the summer, receiving a potting into five-inch pots in July, and being kept close for a few days afterwards.
The pretty early varieties, popularly known as Roman Hyacinths, are very useful, and may be had in bloom at various times by potting at intervals from August onwards, about six bulbs being required for a forty-eight size pot.
Potting may be done about September, and the plants grown in ordinary greenhouse temperature.
Rhoda Polly went on with the potting of her Alan Richardson, biting her under lip at critical points, but ever and anon flashing a pertinent query at me over the boxes of mould without once raising her head.
I knew the place well, I knew also that Arcadius would almost certainly be in his potting house, putting things to rights after the labours of the day (the middle of March is high season for every gardener in the Midi).
The culture is nearly that of the amaryllis,--a good, fibrous loam with a little sand, potting the tubers in early spring or late fall.
Such a soil is found in the potting earth used by florists, and it may be obtained from them at 50 cents to $1 a barrel.
When done, pour the whole on the bottom of a sieve; and with a fork lay the pieces into potting pots, some of each sort, with the seasoning about it.
Lay it close into a potting pan that will but just hold it, fill the pan up with water, and bake it three hours.
When cold, lay them in a potting pot, and cover them over with butter.
In potting the larger bulbs leave about quarter of an inch above ground, but entirely bury the smaller ones.
Then pack it with your thumb and your potting is done.
Then she gives a description of the greenhouse grafting, bringing in the seedlings and potting them in November, in the fall, and then starting along in February in grafting, and then taking them out and planting them in the spring.
In potting press the soil rather firmly around the roots.
The established varieties are increased by taking off the offshoots, an operation performed at the time of potting in July or the beginning of August.
The old soil should be shaken from the roots of the plants to be potted; and before potting cut off, if necessary, a portion of the main root.
Presently they came to the under-gardener himself, who was busy potting a selection of the tulips.
I quite understood the hint; and after my pint of hot tea and hunk of dirty bread, I again joined in the sniping, potting at Pickelhaubes and arms and legs, when I got a chance.
One gets so used to the eternal potting that in time he hardly notices it.
The act of placing in a pot; as, the potting of plants; the potting of meats for preservation.
Good loam is the best potting material, and beyond a little sand it needs no addition.
Its blue is fine and its potting is excellent, but it is not exceptional.
In Whieldon's own examples the potting is more perfect than in those of other potters.
The potting of such pieces as these has directed the attention of connoisseurs to this obscure factory.
Staffordshire figures that are modern tell their own story, or should do so, to the collector who has ever carefully examined the potting and the glaze of fine old examples.
We have already alluded to the Liverpool delft, but the story of Liverpool as a potting centre is not yet complete.
It is necessary to show the stage at which English pottery had arrived in order to place Whieldon aright and to show the various impulses which led to the outburst of potting which stirred Staffordshire.
His son Thomas Astbury commenced potting in 1723, and his work is so similar to that of his father, that considerable doubt exists as to which pieces may safely be attributed to the father.
The potting and colouring are crude, and the figures are of no artistic interest.
Although undoubtedly original in design, these jugs were easily excelled in potting and colouring by copyists such as Davenport.
John Davenport, of Longport in Staffordshire, began potting in 1793.
Shortly after the end of the eighteenth century porcelain was made here, and some of the examples are of a very high quality both inpotting and in decoration.
Of course, I was not an officer; but I was a really good shot with a rifle, and succeeded in potting several Pathan chiefs.
It will be beastly having nothing to do but wave one's sword, while they are potting at us.
And we of the rearguard, on the kopjes and ridges, watched the enemy galloping round and up to the favourable positions, potting at them when we had a decent chance.
We were interrupted in the middle by a few snipers potting at us.
Once a few of us happened to be lying in front of a ridge we were holding, and at which the Boers were potting from another about 800 yards off.
I have stood in a potting shed and watched Kedgers fill a shallow box with damp rich mould and scatter over it a thin layer of infinitesimal seeds; then he moistens them and carries them reverently to his altars in a greenhouse.
I'll do some potting with you next Saturday afternoon.
Now, while I hold the plant in position in the pot with my left hand, I shake the potting soil in all about the plant.
The Chief took girls and all out into his potting shed.
When making up potting soil, manure or leaf mould, an occasional sprinkling will increase the manurial value and also destroy the worms and other insects.
Our own chaps behind the low wall were certainly potting at the regulars in the Casino, but they didn't even aim properly, they were too frightened, simply popping up over the wall and firing haphazard.
