THE COTTAGE GAEDENEH-AND COUNTEY GENTLEMAN, NoyembbB 6, 1800. 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
71 
Day 
of 
M’nth 
Day 
of 
Week. 
Weather 
near London in 1859. 
Moon 
NOVEMBER 6—12, 18C0. 
Barometer. 
Thermom. 
Wind. 
Rain in 
Inches. 
Sun 
Rises. 
Sun 
Sets. 
Rises 
and Sets 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 
afterSun 
Day of 
Year. 
6 
Tu 
Cherry leafless. 
29.480—29.318 
deer. deg. 
57—40 
s.w. 
•03 
m. h. 
5 af 7 
m. h. 
22 af 4 
m. h. 
32a 11 
c 
m. 
16 
s. 
13 
311 
7 
W 
Hooded crow comes. 
29.669—29.568 
60—39 
w. 
— 
7 
7 
21 4 
morn. 
24 
16 
9 
312 
8 
Th 
Birch leafless. 
29.830—29.665 
53—31 
s.w. 
— 
9 
7 
19 4 
56 
0 
25 
16 
5 
313 
9 
F 
Prince op Wales born, 1841. 
30.452—30.202 
46-21 
N. 
— 
11 
7 
17 4 
20 
2 
26 
15 
59 
314 
10 
S 
Primrose blooms again. 
30.631—30.595 
45—26 
N. 
— 
12 
7 
16 4 
47 
3 
27 
15 
53 
315 
11 
Sun 
23 Sunday after Trinity. 
30.645—30.481 
48—26 
S.E. 
— 
14 
7 
15 4 
15 
5 
28 
15 
46 . 
316 
12 
M 
Wood pigeons flock. 
30.436-30.335 
49-24 
6E. 
— 
16 
7 
13 4 
45 
6 
29 
15 
38 
317 
Meteorology op tiie Week.— At Chiswick, from observations during the last thirty-four years, the average highest and lowest 
temperatures of these days are 51.5° and 36.6° respectively. The greatest heat, 63°, occurred on the 12th, in 1841; and the lowest cold, 18°, 
on the 9th, in 1854. During the period 122 days were fine, and on 109 rain fell. 
WOEK FOE THE WEEK. 
KITCHEN GARDEN. 
While the weather continues favourable make all 
possible speed in trenching up all vacant ground, 
taking care to dig in all green and decaying refuse, 
which is much better than throwing such substances into 
a heap to decay, by which a positive loss of fertilising 
matter is sustained. Broccoli, where it is growing very 
strong it is advisable to dig up and to lay it in trenches 
in nearly a horizontal position, covering the roots and 
stems up to the leaves. This has the effect of checking 
its luxuriant growth and of protecting the hearts of the 
plants in severe weather. Lettuce, plantations for spring 
use to be frequently looked over in the morning and all 
slugs destroyed. If they should be very numerous 
sprinkle fresh lime over the whole of the ground, either 
early in the morning or late at night when the weather is 
mild. Secure from frost any that are now ready for 
use. Mushrooms, the beds now coining into bearing to be 
carefully looked over twice a-week, if any very dry spots 
are observed on the beds slightly sprinkle them with 
water. Sea-lcale, by placing pots over the roots and 
covering them with leaves and dung may be had in 
perfection at Christmas. 
FRUIT GARDEN. 
Proceed according to former directions with planting 
fruit trees, and going over the Peach and Nectarine trees 
occasionally to brush off the leaves, which will afford the 
wood a better chance of getting properly ripened. Look 
over the trees in the orchard to see if there is a necessity 
for the judicious thinning out of the branches. It is by 
such attention that large, fine, good-flavoured fruit is to 
be obtained. The work of thinning although it may be 
done at any time from this till March, nevertheless, the 
sooner it is done the better. Prepare ground for Goose¬ 
berry, Currant, and new Easpberry plantations. If there 
is any fruit still remaining on the trees it should be 
gathered immediately; that in the fruit-room should be 
looked over and any that show the slightest signs of 
decay be picked out. 
FLOWER GARDEN. 
Choice sorts of Hollyhocks to be taken up, potted, and 
placed in a cold frame or pit. They will be useful for 
furnishing cuttings in the spring, that by attention will 
flower in the autumn. Where alterations are in hand 
push them forward with all possible dispatch while the 
weather continues favourable for out-of-door work. Be 
careful to secure transplanted trees or shrubs against 
winds, if not staked immediately after being planted it 
frequently happens that the roots get injured by the tops 
being rocked about by the wind. Cut down and clean away 
the stems of herbaceous plants. The frequent sweeping 
and rolling of grass and gravel, the clearing away of 
plants as they wither away, the preparation of protecting 
material for half-hardy plants intended to be left in the 
open ground through the winter will require early 
attention. 
No. 632.— Yol. XXY. No. G. 
STOVE. 
Particular attention will be necessary in the application 
of atmospheric heat and moisture during the usually dull 
days of November and December, for any excess of either 
will be very detrimental to the plants, by causing a pre¬ 
mature or unseasonable growth which no aftercare can 
thoroughly rectify. A selection of the winter-flowering 
Begonias will at this season form an important feature in 
the decoration of the stove, and may be advantageously 
introduced to the conservatory or sitting-room. 
GREENHOUSE AND CONSERVATORY. 
Chrysanthemums will now require an abundance of air 
with a liberal supply of water. Some of the different 
varieties of Chinese Primroses, more especially the double, 
will be advancing into flower, give a few of the strongest 
and most forward of them a tolerably large shift, using 
thoroughly decomposed leaf mould only with a small 
portion of sand. The double sort is valuable for bouquets 
in winter, as it retains its flowers without dropping for 
some considerable time. 
PITS AND FRAMES. 
All flower-garden plants intended tobe wintered in these 
structures will require frequent attention ; the supply 
of water to be limited to that quantity only which is 
requisite to keep them from flagging ; all dead leaves to 
be removed; all the air possible to be given during the 
day, if dry, and to be shut up tolerably early in the 
afternoon. Finish potting Dutch bulbs, pot Ehododen- 
drons, hardy Azaleas, Kalmias, Lilies of the Yalley, and 
all other plants usually required and previously detailed 
for winter forcing. W. Keane. 
GAZANIA EIGENS and SPLENDENS—DOUBLE 
CONYOLYULTJSES—CEYSTAL PALACE. 
I have been told that a rod is in pickle for me for 
bringing out Gazania splendens as a different plant from 
Gazania rigens. But except some I had once or twice 
from the West Indies, along with Melocacti, I cannot 
say that I ever could well enjoy or relish pickles ; but a 
rod in pickle may be as different to them as rigens and 
splendens are from each other, and they are just as ducks 
j and drakes of Puddledock—not as some new sorts of 
ducks and drakes which I noticed last week on the lake 
for the beasts before the flood at the Crystal Palace, a 
cross between some fine white Aylesbury ducks which 
were sent to Mr. Milner and the small call duck of our 
south-western coast, which are white above and buff be¬ 
neath, and the cross birds are of really beautiful yellowish- 
white, and the ducks and drakes are very much alike. 
But rigens and splendens are not so much alike ; and the 
mistakes about them among some young gardeners, and 
some other gardeners who were once young as they, have 
been rightly explained already, and I do not see any good 
which can come out from pricking or pickling the thing 
much deeper. 
The whole question is in the shell of a Filbert nut. 
