flowerpotful

• flower-potful
• flowerpot-ful (rare)

From flowerpot +‎ -ful.

flowerpotful (plural flowerpotfuls or flowerpotsful)

1. As much as a flowerpot will hold.
   • 1866, Cuthbert Bede [pen name; Edward Bradley], “At the Pavilion”, in Mattins and Mutton’s; or, The Beauty of Brighton. A Love Story., volume II, London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, pages 88–89:

     “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;

   • 1866 December 1, Public Opinion: A Comprehensive Summary of the Press Throughout the World on All Important Current Topics, volume X, number 271, London:

     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.

   • 1905, Amateur Gardening for Town and Country, volume 21, London, →OCLC, page 577:

     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.

   • 1978, Geri Harrington, “What You Need to Know to Garden in Containers”, in Grow Your Own Chinese Vegetables, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.; London: Collier Macmillan Publishers, →ISBN, part 2 (Container Gardening with Chinese Vegetables), page 211:

     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).

   • 1983, Geri Harrington, “A Gardener’s Guide and Glossary”, in Cash Crops for the Thrifty Gardener, Perigee Books, published 1984, →ISBN, entry “Potting Soil”, pages 187–188:

     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.

   • 1988, Geoff Hamilton, The First Time Garden, →ISBN, page 113:

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