THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, August 2, 1859. 251 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
Day 
of 
M’nth 
Day 
of 
Week. 
AUGUST 2-8, 1859. 
Weather near Lone 
Barometer. Thermom. 
ON IN 18 
Wind. 
58. 
Rain in 
Inches. 
Sun 
llises. 
Snn 
Sets. 
Moon 
Rises 
and Sets 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 
bef.Sun 
Day of 
Year. 
2 
Tv 
Astelma speciosissimum. 
36.124—29.892 
88—50 
W. 
_ 
26 af 4 
46 af 7 
59 
8 
4 
6 
i 
214 
3 
W 
Schotia speciosa. 
29.813—29.780 
81—43 
S.W. 
.01 
28 
4 
44 7 
13 
9 
5 
5 
57 
215 
4 
Th 
Schotia tamarindifolia. 
29.951—29.873 
80—57 
8 . 
— 
29 
4 
43 7 
29 
9 
6 
5 
52 
216 
5 
F 
Tecoma capensis. 
29.975—29.915 
81—46 
S.W. 
31 
4 
41 7 
49 
9 
3 
5 
47 
217 
G 
S 
Princf. Alfred born, 1844. 
30.277—30.105 
81—37 
w. 
_ 
32 
4 
39 7 
16 
10 
8 
5 
41 
218 
7 
Sun 
7 Sunday after Trinity. 
30.371—30.348 
79-37 
E. 
— 
34 
4 
37 7 
51 
10 
9 
5 
34 
219 
8 
M 
Adamia versicolor. 
30.357—30.288 
78-37 
S.W. 
-- 
35 
4 
36 7 
38 
11 
10 
5 
27 
220 
Meteorology of the Week.—A t Chiswick, from observations during the last thirty-two years, the average highest and lowest 
temperatures of these days are 74.5° and 51.2°, respectively. The greatest heat, 92°, occurred on the 2nd, in 1856 ; and the lowest cold, 3G , 
on the 6th, in 1833. During the period 110 days were fine, and on 114 rain fell. 
IN-DOOR GARDENING OPERATIONS EOR 
THE WEEK. 
GREENHOUSE AND CONSERVATORY. 
The conservatory borders will now require liberal 
supplies of water. Faded blossoms to be constantly 
removed; straggling growth and exhausted stock to be 
cut previous to making a new growth. As the autumn 
is fast approaching, the sooner the new growths are 
encouraged the better, that they may have sufficient 
time to mature them. All greenhouse plants will now 
be benefited by exposure to the natimal atmosphere: 
the dews are more refreshing and invigorating than arti¬ 
ficial moisture or the application of the syringe. 
Finish potting all specimen plants ; for if left until 
later in the season they will not have sufficient time to 
fill their pots with roots, and, therefore, will be liable to 
suffer from stagnation of water at the roots. No position 
can be worse for a plant than that of surrounding it with 
fresh soil for months -when the roots should be in a com¬ 
paratively dormant state. 
Pelargoniums.— Continue to head them down, and 
to propagate the cuttings, which will now strike freely 
in a sunny situation in the open ground. 
STOVE AND ORCHID-HOUSE. 
Much moisture and free ventilation will be necessary 
here during warm weather. The young plants of Euphor¬ 
bias, Ixoras, Poinsettias, and other such stove plants, 
to be rendered bushy by stopping them betimes. The 
JEschynantlnis grandifiorus, Aphelandra cristata, Eran - 
tkemum pulchellum, justicias, and any others that are 
intended for the decoration of the conservatory in the 
autumn and early part of winter, should be carefully 
looked over, and shifted without delay if they want 
more pot room; the shoots to be tied out thinly, and to 
be exposed to as much sun as they will bear without 
scorching the foliage, to induce stocky growth. Nothing 
is more injurious to stove plants than to keep them grow¬ 
ing late in the season, and thus to prevent the ripening 
of the wood, which will render them more liable to in¬ 
juries in winter and more unproductive of flowers the 
following season. 
FORCING-HOUSES. 
Melons. —The plants on which the fruit is ripening 
to be kept rather dry at the roots, with free exposure to 
the air in favourable weather. A steady bottom heat to 
be kept up to the late crops. 
Peaches. —If the lights have not been taken off the 
early-forced houses, it would be advisable to remove 
them as soon as possible, that the air, rain, and dews 
may have free access to act both beneficially on the trees 
and to keep down red spider. In those houses which 
have been treated as advised in former Calendars, the 
principal object now should be to get the wood properly 
ripened. The late houses to be treated in a similar 
manner when the fruit is gathered. Where the trees in 
peach-houses have been recently planted, and are not 
vet in a bearing state, the shoots will require to be trained 
carefully, and insects to be kept down. 
No. 566.— Yol. XXII. No. 18. 
Pines. —The plants growing in beds of soil to be care¬ 
fully attended to with water, giving at each application 
sufficient to penetrate the whole body of soil, as it fre¬ 
quently happens that the surface is moist while the bottom 
is quite dry. Pot a portion of the strongest successions 
for early forcing next season. 
Strawberries. —Continue to lay the runners of the 
kinds you wish to force in pots until you have a sufficient 
number. 
Tines.— Muscats, now beginning to ripen, will gene¬ 
rally require a little fire heat to push them on; when 
ripened in good time they are better flavoured and keep 
longer than when the ripening process is delayed to a 
late period of the season. Continue to remove the stray 
laterals that begin to shade the larger leaves; to be done 
a little at a time, as disbudding on an extensive scale is 
prejudicial to fruit trees. The young Tines in pots to 
have every attention, to secure as much growth and 
healthy vigour as possible while the growing season lasts. 
Allow all young planted Tines to ramble freely without 
stopping them so closely, as is frequently practised. 
Before wasps and flies do much mischief to ripe Grapes, 
coarse canvass should be fixed over the top lights and 
front lights that are opened for the admission of air. 
Remove decayed berries as soon as observed, and keep 
the house containing ripe fruit dry and free from dust. 
William Keane. 
ROSES AFFECTED BY SOILS—PILLAR ROSES. 
The best hit about Roses which has been recorded 
these many years is that by Mr. W. P. Ruddock, 
manager of the York Cemetery, at page 243. That plan 
is also the best way for amateurs to work Roses on the 
Manetti stock. Mr. Rivers, the godfather of Manetti, 
recommends the worked part of the Roses on Manetti 
to be buried in the ground. The Manetti is a vast deal 
stronger than our Dog Rose, and grows to its full size 
in one quarter of the time it takes the Dog Rose to 
effect the same growth—a fact, as sure as fate, which I 
learnt by accident last April, at that sale I spoke of by 
Mr. Wilmore, where two rows of Manetti could neither 
be sold nor given away. The ground of that nursery was 
broken up five years since from a common, which had 
not, probably, been disturbed since the flood. Heath 
and Gorse, Broom and stinted Willows, were the natural 
plants all round. This was grubbed, and cleared, and 
burnt on the spot; the ground was then trenched, divided 
off into nursery quarters, and a sickly stock from some¬ 
where else was brought there and planted on this virgin 
moorland five years last spring, if 1 recollect rightly ; it 
is certainly not more than six years since. The man who 
did the work is still in Surbiton, and could tell to an 
inch every stroke he made. He planted the two rows of 
Manetti from some nursery; they were of the usual 
small size of nursery Rose stocks of that kind. He 
budded them near the ground the next summer, or the 
second summer, after planting; but a host of suckers 
came up from under the budded part, which overpowered 
