THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, August 30, 1859. 315 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
Day Day 
of 1 of 
M’nth Week. 
AUGUST 30—SEPTEMBER 5, 
1859. 
Weather 
Barometer. 
near London in 1858. 
Thermom. J Wind. 
Sun 
Rises. 
Sun 
Sets. 
Moon 
Rises 
and Sets 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 
afterSun 
Day of 
Year. 
30 
Tu 
Dianella ensifolia. 
29.709—29.637 
69—39 
W. 
.01 
10 af 5 
51 af 6 
18 
a 7 
o 
0 
36 
242 
31 
W 
Hindsia longiflora. 
29.733—29.695 
70—45 
S.W. 
_ 
12 
5 
49 
6 
34 
7 
3 
0 
18 
243 
1 
Th 
Ckironia serpyllifolia. 
29.718—29.654 
70—35 
s.w. 
— 
14 
5 
47 
6 
53 
7 
4 
0 
1 
244 
2 
F 
Celosia cristata. 
29.851—29.684 
j 68—38 
S.W. 
— 
15 
5 
45 
6 
18 
8 
5 
0 
19 
245 
3 
s 
Clethea arborea. 
29.801—29.727 
74—60 
s.w. 
.02 
17 
5 
42 
6 
50 
8 
6 
0 
38 
240 
4 
! Sum 
11 Sunday after Trinity. 
29.785—29.721 
69—47 
s.w. 
.18 
18 
5 
40 
R 
34 
9 
3 
0 
58 
247 
5 
M 
Cobcea scandens. 
29.780—29.780 
73-37 
s.w. 
.12 
20 
5 
38 
6 
28 
10 
8 
1 
17 
248 
Meteorology op the Week.— At Chiswick, from observations during the last thirty-two years, the average highest and lowest 
I temperatures of these days are 74.3° and 52.6°, respectively. The greatest heat, 93°, occurred on the 3rd, in 1856 ; and the lowest cold, 33°, 
| on the 31st, in 1838. During the period 130 days were fine, and on 94 rain fell. 
IN-DOOR GARDENING 'OPERATIONS FOR 
THE WEEK. 
GREENHOUSE AND CONSERVATORY. 
Balsams. — Give them a good watering when they 
show indications of drooping; but he cautious in water¬ 
ing when the least stagnation appears, as saturation will 
be death to them. 
Bulbs.— Pot Hyacinths and other such bulbs for 
forcing. When potted, to be placed in a dry, cool situa¬ 
tion, as advised in the early part of the month, and 
covered with some porous material—such as coal ashes, 
old spent tanner’s bark, coarse sand, or any other material 
that will serve to keep the roots not only cool and un¬ 
acted on by atmospheric changes, but which, from being 
moderately damp, will not abstract moisture from the 
roots, but keep them uniformly and evenly moistened. 
The Cape bulbs, if obtained now, may be had in flower 
at various periods throughout the winter and early spring. 
Amaryllis Johnsoni, vittata, and many other varieties, are 
splendid. Ornithogalum, both the white and orange- 
flowered species, the free-growing species of Ixia, and 
'the varieties of Spar axis tricolor, are desirable plants 
that may be easily bloomed by gentle forcing. 
Calceolarias (Herbaceous).—Pot off seedlings into 
small pots, and keep them close in a frame for some days. 
Put in cuttings of the best kinds ; they will strike readily 
in a common frame. 
Chrysanthemums. —They should now be stopped for 
;the last time, to produce a late succession of bloom. 
Climbers. —Be careful to train the shoots, that the 
trellis or stakes may be furnished and clothed with 
j foliage and flowers from the rim of the pot upwards. 
Euchsias. —To have a late bloom, cut back about half 
of the young wood, trimming the plants to handsome 
shapes. If placed or plunged in a little bottom heat they 
will break again, and continue blooming till Christmas. 
Lilium lancifolium. —Supply them cautiously with 
water, as advised for Balsams, and shade the flowers from 
bright sunshine, to prolong their beauty. When they 
have done blooming, to be removed to the foot of a south 
■wall or fence to ripen their growth. Water to be given 
sparingly until their tops show signs of decay, when they 
may be laid on their sides till potting time. The same 
treatment is recommended for Gladioli and plants of 
like habit. 
STOVE AND ORCHID-HOUSE. 
Some judgment will now be necessary to arrange the 
plants that are finishing or have completed their season’s 
growth in the coolest part of the house, where they 
should be freely supplied with air, and rather cautiously 
and sparingly with water. While others in free growth 
should be encouraged with warmth and moisture by 
giving but very little air and a liberal supply of water 
during the present very fine sunshiny weather. 
FORCING-HOUSES. 
When the fruit in the early houses is gathered, the 
great object should be to ripen the wood. Although the 
'No. 570.— Vol. XXII. No. 22. 
weather is most favourable for the purpose, a certain 
degree of attention is necessary to be given by exposing 
them to light and air, and preserving the leaves from 
injury, as it is upon their healthy action that the future 
crop depends. 
Cherries. —Trees in tubs, or large pots, if intended 
for early forcing, to be removed to a cool, and plunged in 
an open airy, situation, to continue the regular root 
action, upon which much of their future success will 
depend. 
Figs. —Withhold water from the borders where the 
second crop of fruit is ripening. Trees in tubs, or large 
pots, intended for early forcing, to be treated as advised 
for Cherries. 
Peaches. —If mildew attack the trees before the 
leaves have performed their necessary functions, dust the 
affected shoots with sulphur. Trees in pots to be treated 
as recommended for Cherries. 
Pines. —Take advantage of the present fine weather to 
encourage free growth where it is desirable. Plants 
swelling their fruit to be supplied occasionally with clear 
liquid manure. The succession plants to be supplied 
with water at the roots, as inattention to that particular 
during the present hot weather is very likely to cause 
some of the plants to fruit prematurely. 
Strawberries. —The stock intended for forcing to be 
carefully attended to; to be kept free from runners and 
weeds; and, when necessary, to be liberally watered. 
Free exposure to sun and air, and a little weak liquid 
manure, will assist to produce stout healthy plants for 
forcing. 
Vines. —When the fruit is ripe, give air freely, and 
keep the house as cool and dry as possible. Stop laterals 
in the late houses, and expose the foliage to light, to 
make it as healthy and vigorous as possible. Vines in 
pots to be treated as advised for Cherries. 
William Keane. 
CALLS AT NURSERIES. 
MESSRS. E. G. HENDERSON AND SON, WELLINGTON-ROAD 
nurseries, st. John’s wood, London. 
Tempted by the report of a new bedding plant, “ a 
thorough good bedder,” I visited this nursery last week 
to see it and to judge of it on its own merits, with my 
mind and conscience purified like the virtues of jurymen 
from all heresay anent the new bedder. 
It is, in my estimation, the very best autumn bedder 
we now possess of the colour. It grows closer to the 
ground than any of the best Verbenas ; it wants no train¬ 
ing ; it propagates as easily as ahy plant in the garden; 
the flowers stand so closely to one another that one could 
hardly see the leaves; and every individual flower is 
larger than the largest Zinnia-flower you ever saw. Can 
you now guess what it is ? If not, I may say that the 
leaves are two or three inches long, not over half an inch 
across, quite smooth and shining on the upper side, and 
as white and soft as a satin shoe on the under side. Can 
you make it out now F Well, we must go closer yet. It 
