THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
September 25. 
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bloom, and they suffer but little in such places, as the 
out-door treatment in summer revives them. The beau¬ 
tiful golden Acacia armata will also stand a considerable 
amount of shade uninjured. 
AFBJL. 
Bulbs, Boses, Primroses, Cinerarias, Scarlet Gera¬ 
niums, Wall-flowers, and hardy Annuals, sown in Sep¬ 
tember, must now form the chief supply of soft-wooded 
plants. The annuals most suitable are the Nemophilas, 
the Collinsias, the. Candytufts, the Silenes, and Viscarias. 
Early Azaleas will now bo coming of their own accord, 
in the greenhouse, but should not stand in such a lobby 
above a fortnight, unless at the south side. Plenty of 
Mignonette and a few plants of Heliotrope will make 
a nosegay. 
MAY. 
The chief gems will be Azaleas, but these must be 
cared for. Herbaceous Calceolarias alone, from seeds 
sown in August, would make a fine show this month. 
Shrubby ones potted in autumn and winter also make 
a fine display. Cinerarias will be at their best; Scarlet 
Geraniums good ; and in addition to the Annuals men¬ 
tioned, fine plants may soon be in bloom of the various 
Scluzanthuses, from seeds sown in September, pricked off 
into pots, when up, and kept free from frost, but other¬ 
wise cool, and rather dry in winter, and potted off into 
six or eight-inch pots in the beginning of March. 
JUNE. 
For the first part of the month such annuals as the 
Schizanthus would be graceful and fine. Azaleas would 
do well about the middle of the stage, aud keep a long 
time iu bloom ; but that must not entice you to keep 
them there more than a fortnight; they are too valuable 
to be injured merely for the bloom. All kinds of 
Geraniums will now be in their glory. The Cactus tribe 
would also keep longer in bloom than in a lighter house, 
and there will be enough of time to give plenty of 
unobstructed light afterwards. Balsams sown in a hot¬ 
bed at the end of February, potted and hardened off by 
degrees, will also now be fully in bloom, and will keep 
in perfection longer in such a place than they would in 
a greenhouse, though they will not seed so well. Fuchsias 
of last year, cut down, or pruned in, and started in 
February, will also now he in full feather, so that in 
this month there will be abundance of soft-wooded 
plants to choose from. 
JULY. 
The same may be said of this month. If there is a 
Cuoumber-bed, or pit, in addition to the greenhouse, 
Cockscombs may be had. Many are still partial to this 
good, old-fashioned plant. With such a hotbed, 
Achimen.es may be also had good from the middle of the 
month and onwards, and they would quite enjoy the 
comparative shade of such a place when in bloom. 
This and the two following months Fuchsias will be in 
perfection ; and with Geraniums, Lobelias, &c., nothing 
! more could well he wanting. The hardier Begonias will 
i also do well, and last year’s plants of Lantana crocea 
! and mutabilis cut down early in spring and grown on. 
AUGUST. 
Varieties of Scarlet Geraniums, young plants of Cassia 
corymbosa, fancy and florists’ Pelargoniums, still re- 
I Draining, two or three plants of Rollison’s Unique 
I Geranium, Balsams, Fuchsias, and Achunenes, could 
i leave little iu the way of floral display to be desired 
j during this month. With a few yellows, such as the 
j Cassia, or even Yellow Calceolarias, and some blues, as 
; Salvia patens, or the Achunenes longifolia major, aud 
| Scarlet Geraniums, Balsams, and Fuchsias, would supply 
pretty well all other colours. R. Fish. 
(Z'o be continued.) 
Mr. Webb of Babraiiam. —The Emperor of the 
French has been graciously pleased to honour Mr. 
Jonas Webb, of Babrabam, with a testimony of his 
regard, in the shape of a splendid silver candelabrum, 
as an instance of his Imperial Majesty’s appreciation of 
the success which has attended Mr. Webb’s endeavours 
to improve the breed of sheep. 
WOODCRAFT. 
Fences. —In addition to pruning and weeding forest¬ 
lands, which I have already endeavoured to prove, it is 
a wise economy to attend to at this season of the year; 
it is, also, necessary to see that the fences are in good 
repair, especially such as enclose young plantations. 
If these are out of repair, and a bevy of oxen, or cows, 
or horses, get in, the mischief they will do in feeding 
upon the young tops of the trees (of which they are 
very fond) is incalculable. It is very annoying to the 
owner, after being at the expense to prepare the ground, 
plant the trees, pruning them properly, and keeping 
them clear of weeds, to find that, by neglecting to keep 
the fences in good repair, cattle have got in, and eaten 
off the leading shoots that are so indispensable to form 
fine, straight timber in the shortest time. It is true, 
Nature will make efforts to repair this almost unpar¬ 
donable negligence, by causing the trees so deprived of 
their leaders to send forth new ones; but it is almost 
always the case that three or four, or, perhaps, more leaders, 
spring from such denuded trees, rendering further 
labour necessary to reduce the number of leaders to one, 
thus wasting the energies of the tree, besides losing a 
year’s growth. The Coniferous tribe, indeed, scarcely 
ever make new leaders, and the only way to obtain one 
is to tie up one of the side branches of the next tier of 
shoots to a stick securely fastened either in the ground 
or to the lower part of the tree itself, the stick projecting 
high enough above the tree to set up a side-shoot for a 
loader. The rest of the branches of that tier it will he 
necessary to prune away, in order to throw strength into 
the one selected to repair the loss of the original and 
real leading shoot. 
At this season of the year the trees have made their 
summer shoots, and, therefore, it is peculiarly neces¬ 
sary now to prevent the mischief cattle would do by 
eating off the young tops, to see that the fences are 
cattle-proof. All the annoyance, expense, and labour, to 
repair the mischief would then be avoided. 
It may be asked, what is the best fence for keeping 
out cattle, and how should it be made? I answer, the 
very best is a hedge of our hardy, beautiful Holly; but 
the difficulty with it is, that it is, for two or three years 
after planting, very slow of growth. In some districts 
it grows quickly enough, showing that it requires a pe¬ 
culiar soil. That peculiarity consists in its being a deep 
loam, mixed with small stones, on a rocky subsoil. The 
best way to get a good fence of Holly, is to grow the 
plants in a nursery of good soil, till they are large 
enough to form a good fence at once. The Holly has 
numerous fibrous roots naturally, and they may be in¬ 
creased by frequent shiftings in the nursery, say every 
third year. What I would do to prepare Hollies for a 
hedge would be, first, to prepare the ground by deep 
trenching and enriching it with manure;—then procure 
plants not more than a foot high, plant them in rows 
two feet apart, and one foot from plant to plant in the 
rows. The first year after planting they would require 
no further care, except keeping them clear of weeds 
during the summer,—and iu the autumn, forking over 
the ground, to allow the rains and frosts of wunter to 
ameliorate and enrich the soil. The spring following, 
I would go over the plot with a sharp knife, and cut in 
