THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, Aram 20, 1859. 
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WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
Day 
Day 
Weather 
near London in 1858. 
| 
of 
of 
ArillL 26—MAY 2, 18 79. 
Rain in 
Inches. 
Sun 
Sun 
Moon 
Moon’s 
Clock 
Day of 
Year. 
.until Week. 
Barometer. 
Tliermom. j 
Wind. 
Rises. 
Sets. 
R.undS. 
Age. 
afterSun 
2f. 
Tu 
Easter Tuesday. 
30.0S3—29.991 
62—33 
N.E. 
_ 
44 nf 4 
11 af 7 
33 m.2 
23 
2 
15 
11G 
27 
W ! 
Pultenoea obtusifolia. 
30.082—29.844 
58—43 j 
K. 
_ 
42 4 
13 7 
47 2 
24 
2 
25 
117 
28 
Th 
Dasserina grandiflora. 
30.054—20.823 
65—35 
S. 
.64 
40 4 
15 7 
58 2 
25 
2 
35 
118 
29 
F 
Primula sinensis. 
29.591—29.371 
60—42 
s.w. 
.05 
33 4 
16 7 
10 3 
26 
2 
44 
110 
30 
s 
Pliyliea plumosa. 
29.136—20.038 
57—33 
s.w. 
— 
3G 4 
18 7 
22 3 
27 
2 
52 
120 
1 
Sun 
1st, on Low Sunday'. St. Philip 
[ and Sr. James. P. An. b. 1850. 
29.110—29.041 
56-36 ! 
s.w. 
.08 
IV. 
VII. 
55 3 
28 
3 
0 
121 
2 
M | 
L 
20.206—29.210 
56-30 
N.E. 
.05 
33 4 
21 7 
sets 
© 
3 
7 
122 
Meteorology op tiie Week.— At Chiswick, from observations during the last thirty-two years, the average highest and lowest 
temperatures of these days are 09° and 43.4°. respectively. The greatest heat, 81°, occurred on the 29th, in 1810 ; and the lowest cold, 20°, 
on the 2nd, in 1855. During the period 123 days were lino, and on 101 rain fell. 
IN-DOOR GARDENING OPERATIONS EOIl 
THE WEEK. 
GREENHOUSE AND CONSERVATORY. 
The plants that are introduced, to the conservatory 
from the stove, forcing-pit, or any other such structures, 
merely for the blooming season, will require particular 
care to he taken in the application of water that they 
may not become sodden and diseased. Continue to stop, 
prune, or pinch back all rambling and luxuriant shoots 
in due time. Stir the surface of the bed in the conserva¬ 
tory, and apply fresh soil, to maintain the plants in good 
health. 
Azaleas, Chinese. —Supply them liberally with water 
at their roots during their blooming season, and prevent 
damp and drip from injuring the bloom. 
Calceolarias. —The herbaceous sorts that have been 
pushed along in a gentle heat will now be showing bloom, 
and will require to be grown in a cool, airy place, to pre¬ 
vent the flower-stems from being too much drawn. Keep 
down green fly. Shift on young stock, keeping the plants 
well down in the pots as they throw out fresh rootlets 
from the stem. Cuttings taken off now will root-readily 
in a gentle bottom heat. 
Camellias.— Apply shading the moment it is neces¬ 
sary, to protect the young leaves. 
Fuchsias. —Grow them steadily on in a moist, warm 
temperature. Use the syringe freely. Stop any that 
have a tendency to be long-jointed, to produce uniform 
and bushy plants. 
Heaths. —Admit air liberally to them, and such other 
hard-wooded plants that are now in bloom, or approach¬ 
ing that state. 
Pelargoniums. —Shift on young plants. Any that are 
wanted for late blooming should now be stopped. 
Rhododendrons, Hybrid Indian. —Treat as advised 
for Azaleas. 
FORCING-HOUSES. 
Cherries. —Thin out the fruit where in large clusters ; 
admit plenty of air at favourable opportunities, and never 
allow the trees in tubs, or pots, to become dry. 
Figs. —The same as last week. 
Peaches and Nectarines. —Keep the leading shoots 
regularly tied in, and pinch out the points of some of the 
stronger ones. 
Pine Addles. —It is advisable to keep all that are 
starting, or have already started, into fruit, at one end of 
the house, or pit, that more air may he admitted to them 
than to the others more advanced, to produce a more 
robust growth, and to avoid the necessity of using 
stakes to support the fruit. Air to he admitted freely 
to the succession plants at every favourable opportunity. 
Strawberries (in pots).—Where fruit are colouring, 
keep a rather dry atmosphere, with a liberal supply of 
air, in order to secure flavour. When the plants are in 
bloom, keep them near the glass, and the atmosphere dry, 
with a good supply of fresh air; hut avoid currents of 
frosty air. Introduce succession plants under glass ac¬ 
cording to the demand. Ho not expose those from which 
fruit has been picked to the open air till well hardened 
ofl'. Give them the protection of a cold pit for a time, 
as they are invaluable in open-air plantations. 
Vines. —The dark, sunless, and cold weather that we 
have had lately was unfavourable for early Grapes. 
WTiere the fruit is on the change to colouring admit air 
on every favourable opportunity, not forgetting to give 
it in the morning before the sun shines on the house, 
to prevent the condensed vapour, which woidd affect 
them injuriously, from settling on the bunches. Attend 
to stopping the laterals, thinning the young shoots, tying 
in leaders, &c., in the later houses. Remove the top 
dressing from the outside border, to allow the increasing 
power of the sun to act beneficially upon it. 
William Keane. 
STOVE AND ORCniD-HOUSE. 
Continue a kindly moistness amongst the Orchids, and 
slightly increase the temperature. Shade with tiffany, 
or close-meshed netting, in bright sunny weather ; re¬ 
moving it early in the afternoon. Water liberally all 
that are making free growth. Repot any that may re¬ 
quire it as soon as they have fairly commenced their 
growth. Continue to give liberal shifts «to the free- 
growing young stock of stove plants, slightly shading for 
a few hours in hot weather, shutting up early in the 
afternoon, and producing a kindly humid atmosphere by 
damping the walls, floors, pots, &e. 
Begonias. —Repot and propagate. This is one of the 
most useful tribe of plants that can he grown, both for 
the stove and the adornment of the conservatory. 
Clerodendrons. —Encourage by a moist heat. 
Climbers. —Keep them neatly tied up, and give them 
liberal supplies of water, if in pots. 
Gardenias. —They delight in a close atmosphere ; a 
pit with dung linings is most congenial to them. 
Gesnera zebrina. —Pot bulbs for late flowering. 
No, 552.— Vol. XXII. No. 4. 
MESSRS. J. & J. ERASERS’ NURSERY", 
Lea Bridge Road, Essex, N.E. 
(Continued from page 32.) 
Geraniums. —These are grown in the best yellow loam 
of Epping Forest, with very decayed dung, and a little 
sand. One excellent rule seems to he in practice here 
with the Geraniums, as well as with all the rest of the 
stock—and that is, to take cuttings from no plant which is 
not in the most perfect health ; also, to select the cuttings 
or grafts, as much as possible, of one size and strength. 
Another essential rule is, when cuttings are to be first 
potted ofl', to reject any tli^t do not seem to have rooted 
freely, or to he in a healthy state ; therefore, there is no 
hospital, no doctoring of invalids, nor puny exceptions. 
Nothing looks worse, or is more expensive, in large esta¬ 
blishments, whether public or private, than to see a 
whole collection of good, better, and best plants, and a 
host of others, which are neither good nor indifferent. If 
great country gardeners and their employers would but 
