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JOITKNAL OP HOETICULTtTKE AND COTTAGE GAKDENEK. 



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with an indistinct and unequal zone ; flowers of fine shape, 

 large, in bold trusses, rosy scarlet. A beautiful pot plant. 



Unit (Bulll. — Tall and vigorous habit; leaves marked with 

 a narrow raudyfced zone ; flowers cerise. Too thin as a pot 

 plant. — {Proceediitgs of the Royal Uorticulttircd Society.) 

 (To be continued.) 



WOEK FOR THE WEEK. 



XrrcHEX GAKDEN. 



If fonner directions have been can-ied out, this depart- 

 ment will now present many agreeable features. Continual 

 hoeing, forking, and surface-stirring, together with a splendid 

 season, hare told well upon the crops, which are abundant 

 and vigorous. All these operations must be diligently per- 

 severed in, for the advantages derived therefrom are mani- 

 fold, weeds are extirpated, slugs disturbed and destroyed, 

 moisture retained at the time when it is most needed, and 

 the healthy action of the roots kept up. Trenching vacant 

 ground to be prosecuted where required, and if manure is 

 wanted on ground to be planted, it is best to lay it on the 

 top after trenching, and then fork it in. Let aU green 

 refuse be removed from every part, and either dug in or 

 taken to the char-heap. Caulijlcfwers, the plants that are 

 now forming their heads to be watered and mulched with 

 short litter ; this wiU cause them to come close and compact. 

 Celery, continue to plant sucoessional crops in trenches; 

 take up the plants with as much earth about the roots as 

 possible, and by no means shorten any of their leaves. Im- 

 mediately after planting give them a good soaking of water. 

 The earliest crops to have the earth loosened about their 

 roots, as the frequent waterings it requires hai'dens the sur- 

 face, and prevents it receiving the benefit it should from 

 fatnre waterings. Cucumbers, to produce fine fruit the 

 linings of the frames should still be kept up, they should 

 also be covered with mats at night, as it is sometimes cold. 

 After the plants have been bearing ;or some time, and the 

 shoots become a little irregular, cut them back, give them a 

 good watering, and add 2 or 3 inches of fresh soil. After 

 this keep the plants nearly without air for a feiv days, 

 sliading them when the sun is very powerful, sprinkle the 

 plants with tepid water early every fine afternoon. "iVith 

 this treatment they will make fresh shoots, and will be 

 found as productive as before. Endive, make a sowing for 

 the main autumn crop. Plant out a few of the early sowing. 

 Keep them watered tUl they get roothold. Herbs, some of 

 them win shortly be fit for drying. The best time for doing 

 so is just as they are coming into bloom. Lettuee, keep a 

 quantity tied up for blanching. Make another sowing in 

 drills where they are to remain, jilushrooms, there is much 

 greater difficulty in producing them at this season than at 

 any other, unless in a house constructed for the purpose. It 

 is necessary to keep the temperature of the house down to 

 60°, to do this water should be frequently poured down, so 

 as to produce cold by evaporation. Potatoes, earth-up the 

 main crops immediately after rain. Keep the ground be- 

 tween the rows loose. S;pinach, sow a few rows for succession : 

 if the weather continue dry water the drills before sowing, 

 and again after covering tliem. Whenever it is necessary 

 to water do it copiously, as a slight sprinkling is worse than 

 useless. 



FKtrrr saeden. 



If dry weather continue we would recommend that due 

 attention be given to fruit ti-ees in the above respeoti for as 

 caterpillars and other insects are unusually prevalent an 

 extra exhaustion wiU be the consequence. To those who 

 are particularly anxious about the future success of their 

 fevourite fruits, or who hare been planting new kinds, we 

 would say, ilake strenuous efforts during the present period 

 to extirpate insects, and to assist weakly trees. Ifo mode 

 of planting, winter pruning, or system of training will be of 

 any avail, unless the vegetation of the summer growth is 

 attended to in due time. 



FLOWEB GAUDEN. 



During the continuance of the present dry weather fre- 

 quent waterings must be given, not only to the recently 

 planted trees and shrubs, but likewise to the bedding plants, 

 annuals, &c. In watering, it will be better to give the soil 

 a good soaking twice or thrice a-week in preference to a 



mere sprinkling of the surface daily ; mulching where prac- 

 ticable should be adopted, as well as damping the foliage 

 of newly-planted things every evening. Peg down those 

 plants required to cover the ground as they advance. Car- 

 nations, Picotees, and herbaceous plants, with the taller- 

 growing bedding plant?, to be staked and tied up to prevent 

 injury from high winds. Eemove dead and dying leaves 

 from Koses, and give the autumn-flowering vaiieties plenty 

 of manure water, in order to keep them in vigorous health 

 and secure plenty of wood for blooming in autumn. Divide 

 Polyanthuses ; always choose for them a cool and shady situ- 

 ation, sheltered as much as possible from north and easterly 

 winds. Mulch Dahlias with rotten dung, and give plenty 

 of water in dry weather. Propagate Pansies by the side 

 shoots. Mai'k seedlings worthy of being saved, and pull 

 up the others. When showery weather occurs let the Box- 

 edgings be clipped. London Pride, Thrift, Daisies, &c., used 

 for edging should each year, or once in two years, be taken 

 up, divided, and replanted when blooming is over. 



_ GKEEXHOUSE A^T) CON3EKVATOBT. 



Specimen and choice plants nearly done blooming to have 

 the faded blossoms picked off and be well washed with the 

 syringe ; to be then placed in a cool shady situation to re- 

 cover themselves before potting, which shoxild on no acoonat 

 take place unto, a fresh growth has commenced. Shading 

 wUl now be necessary for all descriptions of plant-houses, 

 unless the roofs are covered with creepers. Air should be 

 admitted largely, allowing more or less at night, according 

 to the description of plants grown, and the paths, floors, &c., 

 kept damp by throwing water repeatedly over them, to pre- 

 serve humidity in the atmosphere of the houses, and owing 

 to the extreme dryness of the external air it is rather diffi- 

 cult to do so. Encourage the growth of Azaleas and Ca- 

 mellias by keeping them comparatively close, with shade 

 during sunshine, and supplying moisture liberally with the 

 syringe. 



STOVE. 



Achimenes, G-esneras, Gloxinias, ic, as they begin to 

 show for bloom, should be removed to more airy quarters, 

 keeping them, however, partially shaded for a time, and 

 afterwards they may be exposed to a larger share of light. 

 Achimenes to be carefully attended to with water while 

 growing. We must here repeat the advice so frequently 

 given, to keep up by all appliances a suiEcient amount of 

 atmospheric moisture, increasing at all times with the in- 

 crease of heat and light, and accompanied by a quiet motion 

 of the atmosphere. Syringe freely twice or thrice a-day, 

 and give morning air liberally. 



PITS AND FKA^TES. 



Hardwooded plants in these structures will now enjoy a 

 more moderate temperature than they possibly could obtain 

 in houses, especially in pits turned to the north, which will 

 prove a good place for some of the tribes in very hot weather. 

 Let regular watering? be applied. The bottom heat should 

 be kept up where cuttings and young seedling plants are 

 propagated, and they should be shaded and duly supplied 

 with moisture. — W. Kease. 



DOES'GS OF THE LA.ST WEEK. 



In case we forget to mention it in these rambling notes, 

 we would wish again prominently to direct attention to the 

 impolicy of planting or. sowing on stiffish ground when it is 

 at all wet alter rain. 5'rom having a lot of other matters 

 to attend to we have not got so far on with bedding-out as 

 we would wish in this fine weather ; but as the plants are 

 growing nicely in their earth-pits, a few days wUl make but 

 little difference. Being anxious to get on, however, after 

 the last rains we planted out some four or half a dozen of 

 beds when the surface was not so hazelly dry as we would 

 have liked it. Every time we pass them we wish we had left 

 them alone. The surface seems so bound, and sodden, and 

 hard baked that the soil will take much loosening with fork 

 and hoe before it arrives at a nicely pulverised, healthy, 

 sweet condition, whOst the slightest touch of the hoe in the 

 other beds leaves the surface in a nice mellow state — in the 

 best position in fact, as the soil is now warm enough for 

 keeping heat out and moisture in. 



Having had many a wet jacket from planting in a day of 



