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GARDENING CALENDAR FOR AUGUST. 
Potting. — Continue where requisite, espe- 
cially with cuttings or seedlings : these may 
be grown into nice plants before the season 
closes. 
Insects. — Use all means to keep these down, 
especially the thrip and red spider : sulphur 
and syringing are good remedies against both, 
and should be incessantly applied. 
Achimenes. — Shift those intended for late 
flowering, and still propagate for the same 
purpose, or to increase rare sorts ; a damp 
situation is suitable to their growth, a more 
sunny one to their flowering. 
Allamanda, Beaumontia, Bchites, and all 
strong growing climbers, should be encouraged 
to set with bloom by stopping such free grow- 
ing lateral and other shoots as do not appear 
likely to afford any buds by other means : re- 
duce the moisture where the plants indicate a 
cessation of activity. 
Alpinias, Hedychiums, and other reedy 
plants, should be gradually put on a shorter 
allowance of water as they pass the flowering 
period. 
Aphelandras, Justicias, Puellias, fyc, for 
winter flowering, should be encouraged, by 
frequent shifting and a hot damp atmosphere 
to form a handsome growth ; do not stop these, 
unless the object is to make a specimen rather 
than to get flowers. 
Amaryllids. — Keep these all in a state of 
complete rest, just giving enough moisture to 
such as do not lose their leaves to keep them 
from perishing. Some shake the leafless ones 
quite out of the pots, and store them on a dry 
shelf until they show their flowers. 
Begonias. — Continue to remove them to a 
cooler place as they flower, and supply freely 
with water; they are easily propagated by 
slips or cuttings inserted in pots of sandy soil 
in heat. 
Burchellia. — Should be kept cool, and with 
a moderate supply of water. 
Cacti. — Remove all under cover if rain sets 
in, and keep them without water until they 
are quite red in the skin. Such as are wanted 
for early forcing should be still more strin- 
gently treated. 
Clerodendrons. — Remove to the conserva- 
tory as they flower, and stop and grow away 
the younger plants for winter use. 
Climbers. — Keep them stopped and regu- 
lated, and reduce the moisture to such as have 
made their growth. 
Daturas. — By having various plants under 
different methods of treatment, these plants 
may be had in flower nearly all through the 
season. Dry off some, but be sure those in a 
growing state are well supplied with water, 
and, where size is the object, with liquid ma- 
nure. 
Erythrinas. — Continue to advance such as 
are in an active state,' and cut down and 
start again such as are past flowering ; the 
young shoots are very subject to the attacks 
of insects. 
Euphorbias. — Keep the succulent ones hot 
and dry, and keep the young plants of the 
more leafy sorts, as E. jacquinijlora, continu- 
ally stopped in to get a bushy plant. 
Ferns. — Allow such as show symptoms of 
requiring rest to gradually sink into inac- 
tivity by partially withholding heat and mois- 
ture. 
Gardenias. — Grow these away in the dung 
beds or pits, supplying them copiously with 
water, and guarding against insects, although 
few attack them in such a situation. 
Gesneras, Gloxinias, fyc. — Gradually with- 
hold water from such as are getting past their 
prime, and prepare them for their rest. 
B^ippeastrums, Crinums, Pancratiums, $*c, 
should be gradually rested as they complete 
their growth. Few of them, however, but 
require some water, but it should now be 
given in small quantities, or they continue 
in an active state, and produce no flowers. 
Ipomceas. — Encourage the growth of the 
late flow r ering sorts, and stop the laterals to 
make them throw more flower buds ; syringe 
constantly, to guard against red spider. 
Ixoras. — Reduce the exciting causes to 
such as have completed their growth ; shift 
growing plants. 
Jasminums, Brunfelsias, Rondeletias, S?c, 
should be rested as they arrive at maturity ; 
propagate where necessary. 
Lantanas. — Put in cuttings of the half ripe 
wood, in heat, and pot off and stop as soon as 
rooted : keep them stopped as they advance, 
and they will form good plants in the spring, 
either for the houses or bedding out. 
Lucidia gratissima. — Continue the treat- 
ment given last month, varying it to meet the 
season. 
Malvaceous Plants, as hibiscus, will be in 
flower ; water freely, and syringe often, occa- 
sionally with tobacco water for the green 
fly. 
Manettias, and other tender climbers, will 
some of them be in bloom ; water freely, and 
keep them neatly arranged. 
31elastomas. — Such as have not flowered 
should be grown freely, and kept near the 
glass. 
3Ielo-cacti may begin to rest if they have 
made a good growth, but it is easy to have 
them in an active state by keeping them moist, 
near the glass, and in a moist heat. 
Musas. — Water freely, occasionally with 
liquid manure, and syringe often, but be 
particular at all times not to wet the flowers. 
Nepenthes (Pitcher-plant). — Continue a 
moist atmosphere and high temperature, 
