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CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS FOR AUGUST. 
CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS FOR AUGUST. 
FRUIT AND VEGETABLE DEPARTMENT. 
Glass. 
Cherries, Peaches, Vines, and other fruit trees in 
pots or tubs, intended for forcing early in the season, 
should, if the wood be tolerably ripe, be placed in a cool, 
and partially shaded situation, to harden their wood and 
prepare them for early excitement, and any which require 
shifting should be attended to without delay, but be 
careful not to injure the balls. 
Grapes ripening in houses should be supplied with 
abundance of light and air to secure colour and flavour, 
and also to ripen and harden the wood of the vines. It 
is advisable, too, to separate and shorten any long laterals 
which were left, that no unnecessary shadow may 
obstruct the rays of the sun ; hut too great exposure 
may injure by scalding. If the weather prove very dry 
and warm, it would be advisable to water the vine- 
borders with liquid manure. 
Peach Trees often suffer from red spider ; after the 
fruit are all gathered, and when the wood is ripening, 
syringe with clear lime and soot water, and also add a 
little sulphur. 
Pines swelling up, and plants in vigorous growth, 
require watering with thin liquid manure. 
Open Air. 
Asparagus beds may receive a good coating of salt 
and be watered well with weak liquid manure, but wet 
weather must be selected for the purpose. 
Cauliflowers for sheltering through the winter 
should be sown without any delay, and if they could be 
6own in a frame so much the better, but give them full 
exposure whilst the weather will allow of it. 
Fruit trees trained to walls, &c., will be benefited 
by stopping and thinning out superfluous wood, and by 
encouraging the growth of the roots as much as possible. 
Lettuces, Cabbages, and Winter Onions should 
now be sown. Hammersmith and Bath Coss lettuces 
are the best for this time. 
Spinach should be sown some time betwixt the 7th 
and 15th of the month for winter use. 
Turnips. The Stone, Dutch, and Six Weeks, should 
be sown in every spare bit of ground for winter use. 
FLOWER DEPARTMENT. 
Glass. 
In the Conservatory and Greenhouse, Cinerarias, 
Primulas, and other winter flowering plants should 
receive every encouragement in perfecting their de- 
velopments. 
Camellias may now be grafted by inarching. Select 
well-grown shoots for the purpose. When the operation 
is completed expose the plants operated upon to a close 
and humid atmosphere. Using the small phial, for 
placing in the end of a detached cutting in water, is a 
very convenient method for gardeners. 
Mignonette to flower in winter should be sown in 
5-inch pots about the middle of the month. 
Plants with tender roots, standing out of doors, 
should the weather prove wet, had better be taken into 
the Green-house about the end. 
Orchid-house. Abundant atmospheric moisture, 
free admission of air, a liberal supply of water to those 
in a growing state, and partial shade are the requisites 
this month. 
Open A ir. 
Rose-stocks, bud, and plant cuttings of all the ever- 
green kinds. 
Carnations, layer still, and separate in damp weather 
such as are well rooted, pot them in 32-sized pots, and 
place them for a few days in a close frame. 
NURSERY and FOREST-TREE DEPARTMENT. 
Cuttings of evergreen shrubs should now be put in. 
Preparations may also be made for removing large 
specimen trees, about the end of the month : dig out 
the soil around the trees intended to be removed, at a 
sufficient distance from the bole to allow of a large ball 
of earth ; by this means a number of rootlets will be 
formed, and any time in September or October, which 
are the best months in the year for the purpose, they 
may be taken up and carried to the situations they are 
intended to occupy. 
