Flowerpotful

“Why, lawks, Mrs. Jones!” said a woman of the lower type of lodging-house keeper, as she stood on the gravel walk and spoke to a middle-aged female on the lawn, whose clothes were as gaily coloured as a parrot’s, and who wore a Gampian bonnet trimmed with a flowerpotful of cabbage roses and a plume of ostrich feathers;

The Prince of Monaco has offered his “Principality” to the Pope as a residence. It is very polite, yet it conveys no great amount of flattery to his Holiness to have this flowerpotful of land placed at his disposal.

Yes, the quantity should be by measure. Thus two parts loam and half a part […] may be two barrow loads, two flowerpot[-]fuls, or two handfuls of loam, and half a barrow load, half a potful, or half a handful of sand.

If you find liquid fertilizer more convenient—fish emulsion is a honey, except for the smell—you might like the Connecticut Extension Service mix. It calls for 1 bushel of peat moss, 1 bushel of perlite or vermiculite, 1 2-inch flowerpotful of limestone, 2 3-inch flowerpotfuls of rock phosphate, and a liquid fertilizer weekly according to the recommendations on the bottle (since this will vary according to which fertilizer you use).

These ready-made mixtures are a boon to the city gardener because they are handy and easy to store. They are, however, more expensive to buy premixed than it you mixed your own. This can be done by combining a bushel of peat moss, a bushel of vermiculite, one 3-inch flowerpotful of lime, and two 3-inch flowerpotsful of rock phosphate and mixing thoroughly.

Mix about a 3½-inch (9 cm) flowerpotful of blood, fish and bone fertiliser with a barrow-load of compost.