THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, September G, 1859. 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
331 
Day 
of 
M’nth 
Day 
of 
Week. 
SEPTEMBER 6-12, 1859. 
Weather 
Barometer. 
near London in 1858. 
Thermo,n. Wind. 
Sun 
Rises. 
Sun 
Sets. 
Moon 
Rises 
and Sets 
6 
Tu 
Conostephium pendulum. 
29.856—29.733 
72—49 
S.W. 
— 
21 af 5 
36 af 6 
33 11 
7 
W 
Coronilla viminalis. 
29.794—29.761 
74—53 
s.w. 
— 
23 
D 
33 
6 
morn. 
8 
Th 
Cotyledon clavifolia. 
29.974-29.807 
77—38 
N.W. 
— 
24 
5 
31 
6 
45 0 
9 
F 
Cotyledon cristata. 
29.967—29.924 
75 — 57 
S.W. 
.01 
26 
5 
29 
6 
57 1 
10 
S 
Crassula perfoliata. 
29.937—29.919 
73—56 
s.w. 
— 
28 
5 
26 
6 
9 3 
11 
Sun 
12 Sunday after Trinity. 
30.139—30.104 
66—44 
s.w. 
— 
29 
5 
24 
6 
21 4 
12 
M 
Cypkia bulbosa. 
30.198—30.064 
86—40 
s.w. 
— 
31 
5 
22 
6 
rises 
Moon’i 
Age. 
9 
10 
11 
12 
13 
14 
© 
Clock 
afterSun 
37 
57 
18 
38 
59 
20 
41 
Day of 
Year. 
249 
250 
251 
252 
253 
254 
255 
Meteorology op the Week.— At Chiswick, from observations during the last thirty-two years, the average highest and lowest 
temperatures of these days are 73.8° and 46.3°, respectively. The greatest heat, 82°, occurred on the 8th, in 1850 ; and the lowest cold, 30°, 
on the 12th, in 1830. During the period 120 days were fine, and on 104 rain fell. 
IN-DOOR GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR 
THE WEEK. 
GREENHOUSE AND CONSERVATORY. 
As boisterous winds, heavy rains, and other atmospheric 
changes occur about this time, it is advisable to draft 
the choicest out-door greenhouse plants to their winter 
quarters. Each plant to be carefully examined, dead 
leaves removed, and any defects in the soil or drainage 
of the pots to be remedied. If worm-casts, or other 
indications of the presence of worms, appear on the sur¬ 
face of the soil, by carefully turning the ball of soil out 
of the pot they can generally be picked out. If they 
are not visible on the outside of the ball, a small 
peg stuck ip will direct particular attention to it until 
the intruder is removed. When staging the plants, a 
pleasing variety may be introduced by placing a few on 
inverted pots. Sufficient space to be given to each plant 
to allow the air to circulate freely around. If there is 
not sufficient room for all, the oldest or mis-shapen plants 
may be rejected, or wintered in a pit or vinery. When 
housed, all the air possible should be given in line weather 
by the entire withdrawal of the lights, and only reducing 
, the ventilation when unfavourable changes in the weather 
take place. 
Heliotropes. —Pay attention to keep them in a grow¬ 
ing, healthy state for winter flowering. 
Mignonette. —Sow now and a month hence, for winter 
and spring blooming. 
Pinks. —Pot Anne Eoleyne and other sorts, to be well 
established before they are wanted for forcing. 
Roses. —Some of the Tea-scented and China kinds, 
being placed under glass, and to be repotted if requisite, 
will promote immediate growth and early blooming. 
Violets. —Take up with good balls, to be potted in 
rotten turf, or leaf mould aud road-scrapings, in 48 or 
32-sized pots, placed in a pit or frame near the glass, for 
flowers in the winter and early spring. 
STOVE AND ORCHID-HOUSE. 
As the season of active growth is now getting to a close, 
it is advisable to ripen off gradually the pseudo-bulbs and 
strong healthy shoots by keeping up a genial atmosphere, 
ranging from 70° to 80°, with abundance of air in favour¬ 
able weather. Cattleyas, Epidendrum Slcinneri, Ladias, 
Lycaste Slcinneri, and Odontoglossum grande, to be kept 
rather cool, and to be slightly syringed occasionally. 
Water to be given more sparingly to all the plants except 
such as are growing freely. Shading to be now dispensed 
with as much as possible, that the plants may have the 
benefit of the ripening influence of the sun. 
FORCING-HOUSES. 
Figs.— Continue to pay strict attention to the state of 
the atmosphere. Where the fruit is still swelling and 
ripening, slight fires will be useful in dull, cold weather, 
to assist in ripening the fruit; and but little syringing 
and watering will be required from this time forward. 
Melons. —Take advantage of the present fine weather 
by giving plenty of air, shutting up early, and keeping 
No. 571.— Vol. XXII. No. 23. 
the shoots regularly thinned. In whatever structure 
they may be growing, it is advisable to keep up the 
bottom heat by a gentle fire, or by linings. 
Peaches. —We will suppose the trees to be now fully 
exposed to the air night and day, and will, therefore, 
require but little attention, except an occasional washing 
with the engine, to remove insects and to allow the 
foliage to perform its functions to a natural decay. If a 
blank in the house is to he filled up, it may be done as 
soon as the crop is gathered from the open wall; and the 
crop to be expected from the same tree next season will 
depend upon the care with which it is removed, as there 
will be sufficient time for the wood to be ripened and the 
tree to make fresh roots, and to get sufficiently established 
before winter. 
Pines. —Where young stock is grown in dung-pits, 
care to be taken by giving air freely in favourable 
weather, to avoid growing the plants weakly in a close 
and warm temperature, and by a sufficient command of 
heat from the linings to allow a little air to be given at 
night and on cloudy days. 
Vines. —All long growths, whether bearing or not, to 
be stopped, as it is getting too late for them to be bene¬ 
fited by the foliage made after this period of the year. 
A gentle fire in damp weather is useful to keep the 
atmosphere dry when the fruit is ripe. The bunches to 
be frequently and carefully looked over and all tainted 
berries removed, and the foliage kept free from insects. 
Fire heat is also necessary where the fruit is not yet ripe, 
and where the fruit is cut it is sometimes necessary to 
keep the atmosphere dry and rather warm, to ripen the 
wood. William Keane. 
CALLS AT NURSERIES. 
MESSRS. E. G. HENDERSON AND SON, WELLINGTON-ROAD 
NURSERIES, ST. JOHN’S WOOD, LONDON. 
{.Continued from page 317.) 
Ten thousand cuttings of one kind struck in a nursery 
on speculation are a sure sign that the kind must be really, 
practically, and substantially, a good plant, for which 
there is never any lack for customers. Let a plant be 
good for anything, except nothing, and it is sure of a sale ; 
a bedding plant more sure and certain than all the rest. 
Well, then, Gazania splendens is sure to go to the ends 
of the earth; and if it could travel with the sun the 
whole distance, it would never shut its eyes the whole 
time ; but it must have sunlight to keep it awake. 
The show-ground in this nursery faces the St. John’s 
Wood Road. It is in long beds four feet wide, a mixed 
border at each end across the run of the beds, and a wall 
and wall-border for the boundaries. The soil in the beds 
is light, and as rich as rotten dung can make it, year 
after year, for generations. Gladioluses and the new 
Phloxes, seem to like the highest cultivation and the 
richest soil. Golden Chains, Imperial Crimsons, and 
most of the variegated Geraniums, do better in one-half 
rotten dung, and one-half light, sandy soil, when they are 
planted out of pots ; but this ground is too rich by two- 
