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allowed to collect subscriptions, the amount would ultimately enable 
the committee to accomplish this desirable object. 
Mr. L. further announces that subscriptions will be received by 
Messrs. Longman, Rees, and Co. ; Mr. Charlwood, seedsman. Covent 
Garden ; Horticultural Society, Regent Street; and he ventures to 
say, by all other Horticultural Societies, not only in Britain, but on 
the continent, in North America, and, in short, in every country where 
the character and fate of D. Douglas has been spoken of. 
We beg to recommend the fulfilment of this tribute of respect to 
Mr. D. to our readers: their names on the list of contributors will 
evince the esteem in which the deceased was held by his brethren. 
CALENDARIAL MEMORANDA FOR AUGUST. 
Kitchen Garden. —Sow cauliflower twice, viz. on the 21st, and 
again on the 28th ; spinach twice ; cabbage, of sorts, in the first week ; 
endive, the last sowing ; onions, to stand the winter, in the first week; 
carrots, a small piece, on a warm border; lettuce, of sorts, twice, and 
where the plants may be protected ; turnips twice ; parsley in beds, or 
as edgings ; radish, of sorts, and small salad herbs, twice. 
Transplant cabbage, coleworts, borecole, and all other winter and 
spring greens ; broccoli, succession crops of, as directed last month; 
also endive and lettuce on dry situations, and where they may be 
covered when necessary ; celery into shallow trenches. 
The general business in this department is, preparing dung for 
mushroom-beds; gathering crops, as onions, &c.; clearing and earth¬ 
ing-up all rowed crops, as broccoli, celery, &c.; blanching endive ; 
guarding seed-beds from birds, slugs, &c.; clipping box-edgings and 
thorn-hedges, &c. 
Fruit Garden. —Regulating the growth of trees on walls, espaliers, 
&c., is still necessary. Gather and preserve the ripe and ripening fruit. 
Make new plantations of strawberries, and pot the necessary quantity 
for forcing. Melons in frames, and cucumbers on ridges or in the open 
ground, require pruning to increase the size or number of fruit: the 
vines of the latter should not be blown about by the wind. 
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Flower Garden. —Take up bulbs which have died down, and 
plant those intended to flower in autumn. Sow auricula and polyan¬ 
thus seed; bud roses; prune calceolarias; transplant heartsease to 
flower late; propagate by cuttings, divisions of the root, or slips of all 
