THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, June 14, 1850. 
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WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
Day Day 
of of 
M’nth Week. 
JUNE 14—20, 1859. 
Weather 
Barometer. 
near Lone 
Thermom. 
ON IN 18 
Wind. 
58. 
Rain in 
Inches. 
Sun 
Rises. 
Sun 
Sets. 
Moon 
R.andS. 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 
afterSun 
Day of 
Year. 
14 1 Tu 
Whit Tuesday. 
29.879—29.850 
I 91—51 
S.E. 
— 
44 af 3 
15 af 8 
13m.2 ; 
13 
0 11 
165 
15 | W 
Ember Week. 
29.961—29.877 
l 94—56 
S. 
. 
44 
3 
16 8 
rises | 
© 
Obef.2 
166 
16 Th 
Epacris miniata. 
29.885—29.781 
97—53 
w. 
.03 
44 
3 
16 8 
59 a. 9 i 
15 
0 14 
167 
17 F 
Lambertia echinata. 
29.878—29.742 
78—42 
s. 
44 
3 
17 8 
20 10 
16 
0 27 
16ft 
18 | S 
Caleonema alba. 
30.007—29.993 
75—40 
N.W. 
_ 
44 
3 
17 8 
41 10 
17 
0 40 
169 
19 Svn 
Trinity Sunday. 
30.088—30.084 
81—46 
s.w. 
.01 
44 
3 
IS 8 
57 10 
18 
0 53 
170 
20 M 
Quef.x \ ICTOR1A Acc. 
30.157—30.085 
80—42 
s.w. 
.02 
44 
3 
18 8 
10 11 
19 
l 6 
171 
Meteorology op the 'Week. —At Chiswick, from observations during the 
last thirty- 
two years, the average highest and lowest 
temperatures of these days are 72.0° and 49.4°. 
respectively. The greatest heat. 93°. occurred on the 19th, in 
1846 ; and the lowest cold. 
30°, 
on the 15th, 
in 18;>0. During the period 106 days were fine, and oil 108 rain fell. 
IN-DOOR GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR 
THE WEEK. 
GREENHOUSE AND CONSERVATORY. 
The stock of plants out of doors to be carefully looked 
over in showery weather that they may not suffer from 
imperfect drainage. The more delicate sorts to be re¬ 
turned to the houses, or protected by some means during 
heavy rains. 
Camellias. —When they are kept in-doors give an 
r abundance of air night and day, with an occasional ap¬ 
plication of the syringe, keeping the paths and floors 
I damp. When they have ceased growing, and have 
formed their flower-buds, discontinue to' syringe the 
I plants overhead, as it sometimes starts them into a fresh 
1 growth that will be the destruction of the flower-buds. 
Chrysanthemums. —Plant them out eighteen or twenty 
inches apart in an open piece of ground. Some to be 
left to grow as standards on one stem, and others to be 
• topped, to make them bushy. 
Cinerarias. —Iu raising seedlings it is advisable to 
. select each parent plant, distinguished for its dwarf habit 
and decided colour, and to place them by themselves in a 
pit or frame. The seed should be carefully gathered as 
it ripens. It should be sown in shallow pots, or pans, well 
drained with crocks; then some siftings, and over that 
some light soil, with some finer and more sandy on the 
surface, covering the seeds very lightly with the same ; 
and slightly sprinkling, or watering, through a very fine 
rose, and the surface covered with a little moss, to prevent 
evaporation. In a few days the seedlings will be up; 
then remove the moss, and let them remain in the pots, 
or pans, until they are large enough to be handled with 
safety; then pot them in small pots, and keep close for a 
day or two. 
Lilium lancifolium. — Give attention to them • as 
also to tree Carnations, Salvia splendens, Scarlet Gera¬ 
niums, &c., for autumn and early winter flowering. 
Oranges. —The same as advised for Camellias. 
STOVE AND ORCHID-HOUSE. 
Achimenes. —Repot, as also Begonias and Gesneras, 
for succession of late bloom. 
Luculia oratissima. —Propagate by cuttings. 
Some of the Orchids will now require to be topped up 
a little with fresh soil. The Barkeria spectabilis, Epi- 
dendrum SJcinneri, the Lycastes, Oclontoglossum grancle, 
&c., will now enjoy the temperature of the conservatory. 
FORCING-HOUSE. 
Figs. —Continue to stop all shoots when five or six 
joints long. Never allow the trees in tubs, or pots, to 
want for water; they now require daily attention. 
Melons. —Shade them during bright sunshine for a 
few hours in the middle of the day. If the red spider 
appears, rub sulphur vivum, mixed with water, on slates 
or tiles, and place them in the pit, or frame, where the 
sun’s rays may fall upon them. 
Peaches. — Admit plenty of air when the fruit is ripe, 
No. 559.-YOI, XXII, No. 11. 
or nearly so. When the crop is gathered, give them 
a good washing with the syringe. Those changing for 
ripening, if the trees are young and vigorous, to have a 
general stopping of the strong shoots all over the higher 
parts of the tree. To keep down red spider, it is advisable 
to wash the walls, pipes, or flues, with sulphur vivum 
reduced to the consistency of paint; or to paint some 
slates, tiles, or common saucers, with the mixture, and to 
place them in different parts of the house, where the sun 
can shine upon them. 
Pines. —If the pot plants in fruit are in a healthy con¬ 
dition, well furnished with roots, an occasional supply of 
clear manure water, in a warm state, may be given with 
advantage to them. 
Strawberries. —As it is necessary, by early attention, 
to ensure a healthy, vigorous growth, therefore, as soon 
as the runners have emitted the least portion of root, 
take them off, and prick them out on a rich piece of 
ground, or on an old hotbed where Radishes or early 
Potatoes have been grown under hoops, where, when the 
weather is hot, they are more convenient to shade, and 
require less water. 
Vines. —When the fruit is cut in the early houses, 
ripen the wood by exposing it night and day, except 
during heavy rains. Water to be gradually withheld as 
the growth of the plants declines, and somewhat in the 
proportion in which you would have vegetation stop, not 
all at once, but gradually. The Vines with fruit now 
stoning may be allowed to produce a few redundant shoots 
if there is sufficient room to lay them in without crowd¬ 
ing, or overlapping the old wood, or shading the old 
leaves. The late Grapes to be finally thinned, their 
shoulders to be tied out, and every useless shoot to be 
removed. Keep the Vines in pots trained, and exposed 
to light, and apply weak liquid manure frequently. 
William Keane. 
CRYSTAL PALACE HORTICULTURAL SHOW. 
June 8th. 
A most lovely day, a splendid exhibition, and a first- 
rate company dressed in the highest style of summer 
fashions. Several ties tell their own tale for an exhibition, 
and for the liberality of the Society which allows, and 
even encourages, such close competition as must occa¬ 
sionally end in ties. Flower Shows must, of necessity, 
lead to matrimonial ties ; but such are not the ties to be 
publicly reported to-day. When two or more com¬ 
petitors come in so close for a given prize, that the Judges 
cannot make out who is first and who second, it is “ a 
tie,” and the first two get the same prize. The highest 
award at the Crystal Palace is £25, and two of the first 
exhibitors of the day, Mr. Dods and Mr. Whitbread, were 
so much on a par with their large collections of stove 
and greenhouse plants in bloom as to make a tie of them ; 
and the Crystal Palace Company doubles the prize with 
right good will, and so with other ties down through the 
schedule. Rut how would it do to double the prizes in 
ties between cloth and crinoline? Or how would it 
