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GARDENING CALENDAR FOR AUGUST. 
able methods, and leave a considerable portion 
of the lights open all the night in very hot 
weather. 
Watering. — This should be copious where 
the plants are growing freely, and the house 
should be kept damp and syringed in the same 
proportion. Such plants as have completed 
their growth must be more sparingly supplied 
with moisture. 
Potting. — Continue to shift such plants as 
require it, being very particular in the drain- 
age, as many will have to stand all the winter 
in the pots they are put into at this season. 
Soils. — Collect new supplies as opportunity 
occurs ; old compost heaps should never be 
exhausted before more is collected ; besides, 
entirely fresh soils are not beneficial to all 
plants. 
Dressing. — See that all plants are properly 
cleaned, staked, and tied up, before they are 
staged ; also that the surface is stirred and the 
pots washed. 
Insects, &c. — Examine the balls of earth 
closely, and remove all worms or other 
vermin from the roots, previous to the plants 
being finally arranged in the house. Fumigate 
as often as green fly makes its appearance, or, 
if only a few plants are attacked, syringe with 
tobacco water. 
Aloes, and succulents generally, should be 
housed early, before heavy rains come on ; 
give only sufficient water to keep them from 
shrivelling up too much. 
Agaves, and large succulents, should also 
be placed under shelter from rain and rough 
winds. 
Alstrdmerias must be kept in a place suffi- 
ciently cool and dry to preserve the tubers 
in a plump state ; they may be examined occa- 
sionally to see that they do not get so dry as 
to shrivel. 
Annuals. — Sow some of the choice sorts 
to bloom in early spring. When potted off 
and established keep them near the light, and 
admit air freely, watering as requisite. 
Azaleas. — Remove these to a cool house, in 
case of heavy rains ; they must never get dry, 
or, if the plant be not killed, it is sure to lose 
all its leaves. 
Calceolarias. — Cut down the old plants as 
they go out of flower ; repot them, and start 
them again in a pit, kept rather close, until 
they have formed fresh roots ; shift old and 
young as they advance, and water freely : old 
plants are hardly worth growing if cuttings 
are plentiful. 
Camellias. — Begin to return such plants as 
flower early, to the house, and syringe them 
often, but keep them rather cool at present. 
Bud stocks with desirable sorts, and place the 
plants in a close warm pit, where they must 
be kept moist. 
Cape bulbs, as ixias, gladiolus, &c., if they 
have rested two or three months, may now be 
potted in turfy loam, with a considerable 
addition of sand; place them in a cold pit, 
and give no water until they begin to grow. 
Ccphalotusfollicularis (New Holland pitcher- 
plant). — Keep a moist atmosphere about it, 
and keep it close and warm in case of cold rainy 
weather. 
Cinerarias. — Shift as the plants advance, 
and let them be supplied freely with air and 
water. Pot up more suckers or plants from 
the open ground, and keep them stopped for a 
time, so as to allow the earlier plants to gain a 
sufficient start of the next crop. 
Chrysanthemums. — Shift as requisite, and 
stop the shoots where necessary, but not later 
than about the middle of the month. Peg 
down more layers into small pots, and keep 
all sorts well watered, using manure water 
occasionally to the established plants. 
Crassulas, and allied plants, as sempervivum, 
should be very sparingly watered, especially 
such as are intended to flower soon. 
Cyclamens. — If any show signs of growth, 
they should be potted ; if not, keep them cool 
and rather dry. 
Epacris. — Protect from heavy rains such 
plants as have ripened their wood, but allow 
a free circulation of air about them at all 
times. 
Ericas. — Let these remain exposed, using 
the shade to protect them from either sun or 
rain in excess. The strong growing sorts 
should be gradually exposed to the sun as they 
ripen their wood; the smaller plants, and 
smaller growing species, are best grown in 
pits all the season, where a similar line of 
treatment can be applied to them, modified by 
their more tender habits. 
Fuchsias. — Put in cuttings of any new or 
scarce varieties, and pot off the young plants 
as soon as they are sufficiently rooted, so as to 
get them well established before the cold 
weather comes on. Shift any of the very late 
plants that require it, and use manure water 
occasionally in watering them. 
Gompholobiums, and slender creepers, should 
be protected from heavy rains, and moved early 
to an airy part of the house, if such weather 
continues. 
Haworthias, Apicras, &c, should receive 
little or no water, unless in a growing state ; 
by attention to this they may be had in all 
stages all the year through, in a warm 
house. 
Helichrysums. — Encourage such as are 
growing, applying water very carefully, and 
being sure that the drainage of the pots is 
always good. 
Leschenanltias. — Encourage the growth of 
those intended for specimens, but check such 
