Saucers
Occasionally, these are useful for standing plants in, while they are in rooms or in places where water cannot readily be applied. Generally, plants are soon injured by standing in Saucers of water, as the soil becomes sour; but those which naturally require plenty of moisture, or grow in water, may be so treated with safety. Saucers are made to suit all the smaller sizes of flower-pots, and may be procured, in most instances, from the same pottery. For preserving a tender plant against the attack of slugs, &c., it is sometimes an effectual plan to place an inverted pot in the middle of a Saucer of water, and stand the plant on the top of it. Glazed Saucers may be recommended for rooms, as they do not allow moisture to pass through and injure anything on which they may be stood.