THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, July 5, 1859. 189 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
Day 
of 
M’nth 
Day 
of 
Week. 
JULY 5—11, 1859. 
Weatheb neae Loni 
Barometer. Thermom. 
ON IN 18 
Wind. 
58. 
Rain in 
Inches. 
Sun 
Rises. 
Sun 
Sets. 
Moon 
R.andS. 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 
bef.Sun 
Day of 
Year. 
5 
Tu 
Jasminum Azoricum. 
29.730—29.722 1 70-47 
S.W. 
.04 
51 af 3 
17 af 8 
40 a 10 
5 
4 
10 
186 
G 
W 
Salpiglossis. 
29.673—29.575 j 73—39 
S.W. 
_ 
52 3 
16 
8 
52 10 
6 
4 
20 
187 
7 
Th 
Salvia fulgens. 
29.650—29.619 75—45 
N. 
.05 
53 3 
16 
8 
7 11 
3 
4 
30 
188 
8 
F 
Veronica decussata. 
30.682—29.500 72—46 
S.W. 
.06 
54 3 
15 
8 
23 11 
8 
4 
40 
189 
9 
8 
Tylophora grandiflora. 
29.842—29.807 70—47 
N. 
.82 
55 3 
14 
8 
45 11 
9 
4 
49 
190 
10 
Sun 
3 Sunday after Trinity. 
29.929—29.806 64—54 
N.W. 
.OS 
56 3 
14 
8 
morn. 
10 
4 
58 
191 
n 
M 
Tweedia floribunda. 
30.091—30.042 79—42 
W. 
— 
57 3 
13 
8 
14 0 
11 
5 
6 
192 
Meteorology of the Week.— At Chiswick, from observations during the last thirty-two years, the average highest and lowest 
temperatures of these days are 74.8° and 51.5°, respectively. The greatest heat, 97°, occurred on the 5th, in 1852 ; and the lowest cold, 37°, 
on the 9th, in 185G. During the period 129 days were flue, and on 95 rain fell. 
IN-DOOR GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR 
THE WEEK. 
*« 
GREENHOUSE AND CONSERVATORY. 
Achimenes. —They delight in a steady, moist heat; to 
he shaded in the middle of hot days, to prevent the sun 
from scorching the foliage; and never to he watered over¬ 
head. 
Cacti.— Remove them to a dry, airy place as soon as 
they have finished their growth. 
Cockscombs. —They can be grown with strong, short 
stems, and very large heads, if they are allowed to remain 
in small pots until the flowers are formed, then potted 
in large pots in a compost of one-half rich loam, one- 
fourth leaf mould, and one-fourth sand, and supplied with 
as much liquid manure and moist heat as possible. 
Fuchsias. —As the plants progress in growth give them 
plenty of air and moisture, occasionally moistening the 
paths, walls, and stages with clear manure water, and 
syringe the plants both morning and evening overhead. 
Globe Amaranthus. —To be potted into 48-sized pots, 
in which they will flower in a soil composed of peat, loam, 
and leaf mould, or rotten dung. They should be allowed 
to stand near the glass, and be subjected to a moist heat 
of not less than 75°. 
Heaths. —If mildew appears, dust them with flowers 
of sulphur. When watering, give them a good soaking, 
so that every part of the ball is thoroughly wet, and then 
withhold further supply until it is again completely dry. 
Japan Lilies. —As they are succulent in growth, keep 
them well and liberally supplied with water. The flower- 
stems to be properly sticked, so as to keep them in due 
bounds, and also to assist in presenting a large mass of 
flowers to the eye at once. 
Pelargoniums. —If the plants have been exposed to 
the open air, as advised in a previous calendar, they will 
now be fit to cut down. After the plants are cut down, 
place them in a shady place until the most forward young 
shoots are one inch long; then shake them out, and repot 
into small pots, using sandy loam and peat only, and 
placing them in a close, cold frame until they begin to 
grow again; after which freely expose them to the 
weather until heavy rains in autumn, or the approach of 
frost, renders it necessary to house them for the winter. 
STOVE AND ORCHID-HOUSE. 
Cleanliness is indispensable amongst the Orchids, use 
a sponge to remove filth from the ieaves. See that no 
plants are neglected iu standing in corners or behind 
large plants ; arrange and re-arrange frequently, as it 
tends both to promote the healthy growth of the plants 
and a pleasing variety in the house. 
FORCING-HOUSES. 
Cucumbers. —Although we have lately had fine solar 
heat, it is advisable to keep up a brisk, regular bottom 
as well as top heat. Strike cuttings of choice sorts for 
winter bearing. 
Melons. —The same as advised for Cucumbers, as they 
No. 502.—' Vol. XXII. No. 14. 
both delight in plenty of heat to keep them healthy and 
in regular bearing. Give them good soakings of weak 
manure water occasionally, and shut up early on all fine 
days, sprinkling the sides of the pits or frames, and the 
plants at times overhead. When watering the plants 
never allow any to fall on the main stem. If gum, or 
canker, appears, apply lime to the parts affected. Old 
plants cut back should be stimulated to grow freely. 
Peaches. —Any tendency to premature decay in the 
leaves of those from which the fruit has been all gathered 
to be arrested by liberal waterings at the roots and by 
sy ringings. 
Pines. —Keep up the temperature from 90° to 95° by 
day and from 70° to 75° by night, with plenty of moisture 
among the growing plants and swelling fruit. Shift the 
successions as the roots fill the pots. 
Vines. —Uncover the house, or give all the air possible 
night and day as soon as the Grapes are gathered, unless 
the wood is not fully ripened, in that case the house 
should be closed in the afternoon at a good heat. Stop 
the laterals on the later Vines, thin and tie up the bunches, 
and maintain a steady, moist temperature, with plenty of 
air, but do not syringe the bunches. 
William Keane. 
BLOOMING THE DOUBLE-YELLOW ROSE. 
WATERING—DOUBLE FLOWERS—PROPAGATING 
DOUBLE ROCKETS. 
We shall never tire of the theme. Every season 
brings out something else about Roses. At each Rose 
gathering the conversations of Rose amateurs with prac¬ 
tical growers, as nurserymen and gardeners, are like 
Rose-suckers—the best of the sap flows that way; and a 
beginner in culture would prick up his ears at such talk, 
and believe every drop of that sap was “organised,’’ as 
they say when that sap is united with the solid parts. 
Then, if I could tell a quarter of what I had heard in the 
Hanover Square Rooms the other day, who could count, 
all the pricked ears ? But, having heard that side of the 
story, and missed the Miss Isabella Grey, the American 
beauty from the “ Southron” States, and the old yellow 
Rose, which is as good as she, if we could get the good¬ 
ness out of them—and why not? The reason is plain 
enough about Isabella. She is not yet sufficiently rooted 
in our soils and customs, and, like other beauties, she is 
too much over-worked in the drudgeries incident to the 
“bringing out” of such young ladies into our fashion, 
able world ; therefore, there is every hope that she will 
be as she has been reported to be in her earlier days—a 
perfect beauty, and as sweet as a Rose or a tea-caddy. 
Not so, however, the oldest of all our Roses, the “ double 
yellow,” notorious for refusing to expand its flower-buds. 
Two hundred years since it was just the same, and had 
the same character ; but they had a way of managing to 
bloom it then which has been forgotten, or ^ all but lost. 
Something of this ancient practice was mentioned within 
the last ten years, but I forgot where ; and the very last 
