THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, Mat 3, 1859. 
59 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
Day 
pf 
iM. nth 
1 
Day 
of 
Week. 
MAY 3—9, 1859. 
Weather 
Barometer. 
near London in 18 
Thermom. j 5Vind. 
58. 
Rain in 
Inches. 
Sun 
Rises. 
Sun 
Sets. 
Moon 
R.andS. 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 
afterSun 
Day of 
Year. 
3 
Tu 
Sempervivum cruentum. 
29.625—29.450 
55—26 
E. 
31 af 4 
23 af 7 
54 a. 8 
1 
3 
14 
123 
4 
w 
Sparaxis. 
29.876—29.805 
57—27 
N. 
— 
29 4 
24 7 
17 10 
2 
3 
21 
124 
5 
Th 
Sparmannia Africana. 
30.041—29.983 
66—23 
N.E. 
.02 
27 4 
26 7 
28 11 
3 
3 
26 
125 
6 
F 
Sphenostoma gracilis. 
30.290-30.250 
61—25 
N.E. 
— 
25 4 
28 7 
morn. 
4 
3 
31 
126 
7 
S 
Sprengelia incarnata. 
30.357—30.312 
60—25 
E. 
— 
24 4 
29 7 
22 0 
5 
3 
36 
127 
» 
Sun 
2 Sunday after Easier. 
30.316—30.235 
59—29 
E. 
— 
22 4 
31 7 
58 0 
6 
» 
40 
128 
9 
M 
Stenockilus maculatue. 
30.130—30.063 
62—38 
! 
E. 
— 
20 4 
32 1 
24 1 
3 
8 
44 
129 
Meteorology of the Week. — At Chiswick, from observations during the 
temperatures of these days are 61.5° and 40.0°. respectively. The greatest heat, 81 
on the 4th, in 1855. During the period 116 days were tine, and on 96 rain fell. 
last thirty-two years, the average highest and lowest 
’, occurred on the 4th, in 
1830 ; and the lowest cold 
20’, 
IN-DOOR GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR 
THE WEEK. 
GREENHOUSE AND CONSEBVATOEY. 
Attend in due time to all plants that require potting 
into larger pots ; and pinch off the tops of all that are of 
a rambling or loose habit of growth, to make them com¬ 
pact and bushy. 
Azaleas.—A s soon as they are out of bloom, take them 
into heat to make their growth, syringing them frequently 
and supplying them occasionally with manure water, and 
shade for a short time in the middle of the day when 
the sun is powerful. 
Calceolarias. —Give them weak liquid manure occa¬ 
sionally, and shade those in bloom. 
Cinerarias. —When done flowering, cut the stems 
down, to favour the development of suckers, and remove 
them to a cold pit or frame. 
Climbers. —Keep all neatly trained. 
Heaths and New Holland Plants. —The late-flower¬ 
ing sorts, or such as have already flowered, and the 
, young stock intended for another season, may be re- 
' moved to cold pits or frames. Such plants as require it 
must be shifted, stopped, and shaded ; particular atten¬ 
tion being paid that they do not get dry at the root. 
Pelargoniums. — Shade such as are in flower; and 
shift and stop such as are wanted to flower late. 
stove and orchid-house. 
Keep up a kind humidity and a gradual increase of 
temperature in correspondence with the increase of solar 
light, and shut up early in the afternoon with sun heat. 
Continue to propagate the choice stove plants, and keep 
all free from insects. 
Achimenes. —Pot off. 
Begonias. —Continue to repot as they go out of bloom, 
pruning in any straggling shoots, and propagate as advised 
last week. Keep them close, and syringe frequently, 
when they will soon commence growing. Keep them 
some distance apart, to allow their fine foliage to expand. 
The following are good sorts:—Prestoniensis, Cinna- 
barina, Fuchsioides, Martiana, Zebrina, Barkeri, Rubra, 
and Argyrostigma. 
Gloxinias. —Repot where necessary. 
Succulents. — Opuntias, Melocacti, and Epiphyllum, 
to be excited into vigorous growth by intense light and 
abundance of heat and moisture. 
forcing-house. 
Cherries. —Temperature 65° to 70° by day and 50° at 
night, and give plenty of air ; but guard against wet and 
cold. 
Figs.— Stop and thin the shoots. Keep a damp atmo¬ 
sphere, and use the syringe over the foliage, when the 
house, or pit, is shut up in the afternoon, to keep down 
red spider. When the fruit is ripening, the syringe must 
be dispensed with, and the atmosphere kept drier ; but, 
as there is generally a succession of fruit on the trees, 
water must not be wholly withheld at the time of the 
No. 5*3.—Vol. XXII. No. 5. 
first crop ripening, as it would endanger the succeeding 
one ; but it may be given more sparingly. 
Melons. —Stop and keep the shoots very thin. When 
the crop is safely set, give the soil a good soaking of 
clear, tepid manure water. Let swelling fruit be exposed 
as much as possible to the light. 
Peaches. — Continue to stop all gross shoots, which 
will both increase the size of the fruit and the smaller 
shoots at the bottom of the tree. The syringe, when 
used frequently, is useful for the same purpose, and to 
keep down insects. Air and light to be admitted, to give 
flavour and colouring to the ripening fruit. 
Pines. —The fruiting plants now swelling,, and in pots, 
may be treated with a little clear liquid manure. Guano 
water, or soot water, or both combined, will produce a 
perceptible improvement in foliage and growth, with the 
camion that it be given in a warm, clear state, and not 
too strong. Ply the syringe freely on warm afternoons, 
and close up with a temperature of 85° or 90°; giving air 
again towards evening. When indications of ripening 
by changing colour appear, desist from the use of the 
syringe, and give them no further supplies at the root. 
Strawberries. —When ripening their fruit they may 
be placed in a frame where a free admission of air can be 
given. 
Vines. —Encourage the young stock intended for grow¬ 
ing in pots next year, to make healthy, luxuriant growth, 
by giving them plenty of pot room and manure water, to 
set them in a light situation in some of the forcing-houses 
and to pay early attention to the leaders as they advance 
in growth. Where Muscats are growing with Hamburghs 
and other such free-setting varieties, it is advisable to 
keep up a brisk day-temperature for the Muscats during 
their season of blooming, and until their berries are fairly 
set, with a reduction to a night-temperature of 65° or 68°, 
to suit the other varieties. William Keane. 
BEDDING OUT and TRANSPLANTING-LIQUID 
MANURE FOR BEDS-GARDEN JOURNAL. 
In my own private garden, which is a different thing 
altogether from the Experimental, I remove all the 
spring flowers as soon as they have done blooming, to 
get the ground in readiness for the summer crop ; and 
that crop consists chiefly of seedlings of one thing or 
another to be proved, and some rare botanical fancies 
which need to be constantly under the eye of the “ go¬ 
vernor.” I would not remove one-lialf of these plants if 
I could help myself; but having been compelled, by gifts 
and kindness, to grow more things than I absolutely 
wanted; and now, having had a practical knowledge of 
five or six years of what can be done under restraint, 
provided it is done well, I can come into competition in 
difficulties of that kind with any reader of The Cottage 
Gardener in the three kingdoms. The only chance I 
have over many of them is, that I can do the moving 
myself as well as there is any occasion for, and that I 
can see in a moment if a plant is right, or wrong, or 
