A useful source for British material is:

Currie, C.K. 1993. The Archaeology of the Flowerpot in England and Wales, 
circa 1650-1950, Garden History 21, 227-46

Craig Cessford


> I am looking for any information on studies of flower pots. In 
> particular, I am trying locate good resources on the history of terra 
> cotta flower pots and relationship of size to use. Also I am looking for 
> info on greenhouse heating systems. The session at the SHA conference in 
> Baltimore last year was very good and I have some great resources from 
> the histarch discussion of greenhouses and orangeries a couple of years 
> ago, but I am looking more specifically at the mid to late nineteenth 
> century and within an institutional context. I am working on a greenhouse 
> at the Eastern State Lunatic Asylum in Lexington, Kentucky where I have 
> brick foundations, trench features associated with a heating system 
> (seems to be for hearth and ash clean-out), and thousands of terra cotta 
> flower pot sherds of various sizes. I am looking to relate these 
> resources to nineteenth century philosophies of architectural and 
> landscape designs for asylums, such as the Kirkbride model and to 
> treatment philosophies (I have Susan Piddock's edited volume and diss.). 
> Any suggestions for historical references or archaeological studies of 
> flower pots and greenhouses would be much appreciated, I am trying make 
> sure I am not missing anything.
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>Thanks in advance,
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>Jay
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>M. Jay Stottman
>Staff Archaeologist
>Kentucky Archaeological Survey
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