Meaning of flowerpotful | Babel Free

Definitions

As much as a flowerpot will hold.

Examples

““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.”

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