THE GARDENERS’ AND NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR FOR AUGUST. 
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in a north situation, and look well to them, as they are 
very liable to damp off. As soon as large enough pot 
into separate pots, in a light rich compost. Sow seeds 
in light soil, cover slightly, and keep them moist until 
they vegetate. When up water carefully, or they will 
damp off. 
Cinerarias .—These are now throwing up then- 
suckers, which, when large enough, should he taken 
off and potted into separate pots, in a good rich com¬ 
post. Place them for a few days in a cold frame in a 
shaded situation. When established, water freely. 
Seeds may now he sown for spring flowering. As soon 
as large enough prick off into store pots, where they 
may remain until they are fit to pot into separate 
pots. 
Chrysanthemums. — Give these every encourage¬ 
ment to promote free growth. Thin them, and tie out 
and water liberally. Should the mildew appear, dust 
them with sulphur. A shady situation with a free 
current of air will be found the best place for them. 
Take off from the stools those layered early. Pot them 
and keep them shaded and close for a few days. When 
well established expose them to the open air. 
Routine.—- Turn over occasionally the heaps of 
manure and compost, that they may get well sweetened 
for autumn potting. While in a dry state, house those 
ready for use ; wash dirty pots that they may he ready 
for use, for much mischief is done by potting in dirty 
pots. H. R. 
FLOWER-GARDEN.—OUT-DOOR DEPART¬ 
MENT. 
The advantage of decided coloured flowers for massing 
purposes in our flower-gardens is at no time of the 
year more obvious than at the present season, when all 
the beds are full; for that simplicity, which is ever 
associated with beautiful objects, can he seen at once, 
not only in the individual masses, hut also traceable in 
and out amongst the whole of the beds, enabling the 
eye to embrace the effect of the entire arrangement, 
without any apparent effort either near or at a distance 
more remote. It is by having each bed sufficiently marked 
with a decided colour, that we get a general expression of 
character from the whole, which in truth makes our 
flower-garden system an art. The clean, simple, and 
intelligible colours, and the regular and well-connected 
figures, are what look best in geometrically laid out 
flower-gardens. Leave the loose and scattered, the 
rough and rugged, to nature’s own scenes. A flower- 
garden, like everything else, which has the elements of 
progress hound up with it, cannot he long looked at 
without generating some new idea ; and the thought of 
having a subdued colour for a central mass, in a 
regularly constructed flower-garden, is an idea in the 
onward direction, for it gives an enlargement and an 
expansibility to the whole figure beyond what it really 
possesses, whereas the effect of a warm striking colour 
would have been to contrast and diminish the real size 
of the figure. There is a great and a small system of 
laying out beds on grass, at what is called apparently 
irregular distances, so as to he connected with groups of 
trees, and which catches the eye at different turns, in 
consequence of the contrast that exists amongst the 
colours of the beds. The great system is distinguished 
by a number of large circular beds being associated with 
smaller beds, hut at sufficiently marked distances from 
each other to make the arrangement clear, and set off 
the individual beds; while in the small system there is 
little observed, but an excess of small beds not much 
varied in size, form, nor colour. Indeed it may with 
truth he said of the small system that it chiefly ex¬ 
hibits a degree of small prettiness, at all times to he 
avoided in our flower-garden arrangements. Dignity 
is the characteristic of the one, and meanness that of the 
other. Alyssums, Iherises, and other like plants, just 
rooted, should he planted out in the reserve garden, 
ready to be removed when wanted in the autumn to fill 
up beds. 
Propagation .—Cuttings of Geraniums maybe thinned 
out of the beds here and there, without much injury to 
the masses, and laid in on a border, putting a little silver 
sand in the opening made to receive the cuttings; 
by no means exclude the sun’s rays from the cuttings. 
In this way there is no danger of the chemical action 
without, overcoming the vital action within the cutting, 
as is too often the case when the same cuttings are put 
in a close frame. Petunias intended for winter stock 
should he increased by cuttings at once, so as to have 
them potted off and the pots full of roots before the 
winter sets in. Anagallis, Nierembergias, Mauran- 
dyas, and Lophospermums may all he rooted in sandy 
peat, if placed in a close frame, and shaded in bright 
sunny weather. Maurandya Barclayana rosea is not a 
decided colour, hut it is an abundant flowering variety. 
Sow intermediate Stocks immedately, and ten-week 
Stocks of various colours twice before the middle of the 
month. Prepare a situation for sowing annuals, to 
stand the winter, next month. J. C. 
Rose Garden .—Give a plentiful supply of water to 
all perpetual flowering kinds if the weather continues 
dry. Mildew will now begin to show its white spots 
on some of the sorts, and it must he checked as soon as 
seen, by syringing the plant with soft water in the 
evening, and dusting the infected parts with sulphur. 
Those in pots must have constant attention to keep 
them growing, and mind they do not stand crowded 
together. Budding should he finished as early in the 
month as possible, the stocks being kept well watered 
till they are budded to keep them growing. 
Towards the end of the month the first budded ones 
may have their bandages removed, and see that none of 
the wild shoots lay across where the buds are inserted, 
or, by the winds movieg them to and fro, they will get 
injured if not entirely destroyed. Cuttings of the Tea- 
scented, Noisette, China, Isle de Bourbon, Hybrid 
Perpetuals, &c., may now he struck very easily in a 
gentle hot-hed in very sandy light soil. As soon as 
they are rooted they should he potted off, and put in 
the hot frame again for a few days till the roots begin 
to show at the sides of the pots, when they must he 
removed to a cold frame and hardened off. During 
the latter part of the season, fhey must he exposed to 
all fine weather. 
Banksian Roses should now have their young shoots 
nailed in, or if there are too many to nail in, the super¬ 
fluous ones should he taken off. 
The Ayrshire, Boursault, Sempervirens, and other 
pyramid Roses will frequently send out very luxuriant 
shoots, particularly near the bottom, which, if not 
wanted, to renew any weak part of the plant, must he 
taken out altogether, or the tops taken off to prevent 
their robbing the other parts of the plant. H. M’M. 
Arboretum .—With this month I close the list of 
Coniferae, as it contains such as I would recommend for 
amateurs and the proprietors of small places, who only 
wish to plant a limited collection. They are all proved, 
and will not entail disappointment. Amongst the many 
novelties introduced of late years there are, no doubt, 
some beautiful things, hut any remarks on them would 
he ont of place here, my object being to recommend to 
those who may require a guide, a few proved good 
things. 
Ricea Wehhiana (Nepaul, 1822), the Blue Coned Pine 
of Almoran.—The foliage of this variety being very 
large, with the upper surface of a deep green, and the 
under as ilvery white, it is one of the finest of the genus; 
