THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, October 4, 1859. 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
Day 
of 
M’nth 
Day 
of 
Week. 
OCTOBER 4-10, 1859. 
Weather near London in 1858. 
Barometer. Thermom.l Wind. 
1 Inches. 
| 
Sun 
Rises. 
Sun 
Sets. 
Moon 
Rises 
and Sets 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 
after Sun 
Day of 
Year. 
4 
Tu 
Ilabrantlms Bagnoldi. 
29.942—29.757 
70—41 
S.W, 
.07 
7 
af 6 
31 af 5 
31 
10 
8 
11 
9 
277 
5 
W 
Habranthus purailis. 
29.861—29.784 
62—35 
s.w. 
.18 
8 
6 
29 5 
43 
11 
9 
11 
27 
278 
6 
Th 
Habrothamnus elegans. 
30.011—29.857 
65—45 
w. 
.01 
10 
6 
27 5 
morn. 
10 
11 
45 
279 
7 
F 
Hindsia longiflora. 
29.490—29.318 
1 65—40 
s.w. 
.24 
12 
6 
25 5 
55 
0 
11 
12 
2 
280 
8 
s 
Leonotis leonura. 
29.840—29.538 
61—26 
w. 
.00 
13 
6 
22 5 
8 
2 
12 
12 
19 
281 
9 
Sun 
16 Sunday after Trinity. 
29.924—29.681 
61—38 
s.w. 
.00 
15 
6 
20 5 
17 
3 
13 
12 
36 
282 
10 
M 
Leucocoryne odorata. 
29.590—29.341 
58—36 
s.w. 
.09 
17 
6 
18 5 
29 
4 
14 
12 
52 
283 
Meteorology of the Week. —At Chiswick, from observations during the last thirty-two years, the average highest and lowest 
temperatures of these days are 61.5° and 43°, respectively. The greatest heat, 80°, occurred on the 5th, in 1834 ; and the lowest cold, 28°, 
on the 9th, in 1849. During the period 108 days were fine, and on 11G rain fell. 
IN-DOOR GARDENING OPERATIONS EOR 
THE WEEK. 
GREENHOUSE AND CONSERVATORY. 
The plants when newly set in the house are very liable 
to lose a portion of their leaves : these should be removed, 
and the plants kept supplied with water, so as to pre¬ 
serve the soil moderately moist throughout. Air to be 
given every day, and also a portion at night, if the weather 
continue mild. 
Bulbs (Dutch).—All kinds to be immediately potted 
and plunged in a convenient situation ready to be re¬ 
moved, when wanted, to the forcing-house or pit. If 
potted and treated as advised some time ago, a few of them 
may now be excited into growth. 
Chrysanthemums. —Take up the plants from the open 
ground; choose a showery day for the purpose. After 
potting to be well watered and shaded for a few days, 
then placed in a cold pit, or removed to the greenhouse, 
and neatly tied to stakes. The buds to be thinned for a 
fine display. 
Gladioli.— Pot them, and Ixias, Sparaxis, &c.; and to 
be watered sparingly until they begin to grow. 
Lily of the "Valley. —Pot some, to be treated as 
advised for Bulbs, that a regular supply of this favourite 
flower may be had during winter. 
Shrubs. —Get in, if not already done. A supply of 
American plants to be potted, as advised a fortnight ago, 
and plunged in old tan until wanted for forcing, 
stove and orchid-house. 
Continue to act in unison with the season, allowing 
the temperature to decline slightly as light decreases. 
Although the Aerides, Dendrobiums, &c., will continue to 
enjoy a temperature of 80° by day and 70° by night, the 
Cattleyas will require 10° or 15° less to bring them to a 
healthy state of rest; for if kept in constant excitement 
they will continue to sprout buds from their pseudo¬ 
bulbs, which generally adds to the size of the plant at the 
expense of the blooms. 
Achimenes picta. —Promote their growth by every 
attention, also Gesnera zebrina, which adds much to the 
beauty of the stove during winter. 
Begonias. —Encourage the different kinds for winter 
flowering by giving them larger pots if required. 
Euphorbia fulgens and splendens. —These are also 
worthy of especial attention, as they contribute to enliven 
the house at the dullest season of the year when flowers 
are scarce. 
forcing-houses. 
Cucumbers. —To prolong the season of fine crisp fruit 
it is necessary to keep the plants clean and healthy by 
giving them plenty of top and bottom heat. 
Eigs. —The trees having no fruit likely to come to 
perfection, and whose leaves are fading, to be kept cool 
and dry, to induce an early rest. A seasonal rest should 
also be given by the same means to trees in pots, that 
they may be in a fit state for forcing early. 
Melons. —Continue to maintain a warm, dry atmo- 
No. 575.— Yol. XXIII. No. 1. 
sphere, to give flavour to the fruit. They will require 
little or no water after this. 
Peaches.- —Vacancies to be filled with trees from the 
walls on the open ground. This is a plan preferable to 
having young trees from the nursery, which are usually 
some years in covering the space allotted to them. Where 
the lights have been wholly removed the inside borders 
have had, most probably, a sufficient soaking after the 
late heavy rains ; and, after being repaired and painted, 
they should be put upon the houses to protect the trees 
and borders from unfavourable weather. 
Pines. —Ripening fruit to be kept in a dry, warm 
atmosphere, to give it flavour. The swelling fruit to have 
a warm, moist atmosphere. Water to be given to the 
plants cautiously ; every one to be examined before it 
receives any, and manure water to be dispensed with 
altogether. The heat of the dung-pits to be kept up by 
renewing the linings. The crowns and suckers that are 
planted in the tan to have no water; all they require is 
attention in giving air and keeping up the heat. 
Vines. —Attention to be given to the young Vines in 
pots that are intended for forcing, that they may not 
become soddened, which would injure the young roots 
considerably. Where netting or any other such material 
had been fixed over the lights that open in houses con¬ 
taining fruit, to prevent the ingress of wasps, it may be 
taken down as little mischief will now be apprehended 
from their attacks. Mice are sometimes very trouble¬ 
some in vineries at this season, and will spoil a whole 
house of Grapes in a short time if not prevented. Traps 
should, therefore, be kept set, and every means used to 
prevent their ingress from the garden. Cover the border 
when the trees are planted outside, with a good coat of 
fern or any other such material before they become satu¬ 
rated and chilled by the autumnal rains, to be laid on 
thickly in layers, beginning at the front of the border, 
the whole to be covered with a thin layer of good straw, 
and fastened down as a thatcher does the straw on stacks. 
William Keane. 
CRYSTAL PALACE IN THE MIDDLE OF 
SEPTEMBER. 
I said that the so-called Treniham Scarlet Geranium 
has taken the place of Tom Tlmmb all over the Crystal 
Palace grounds ; that the Cottage Maid, Punch, Cerise 
Unique, and Comp actum, are their next best kinds, till 
we come to Nosegays ; then that the Purple Nosegay, alias 
Pink Nosegay, made more stir among the visitors than 
all the rest of the Geraniums put together ; and that, on 
that account, they were to have fourteen times more 
bulk of Nosegays next year. This last sentence is just as 
I wrote it, but it is entirely wrong in the last part of it. 
It is quite true the gardener who attends the Rose 
Mount where these stirring Nosegay- beds are planted, 
says he had more inquiries about them than all the rest 
of the beds, especially from ladies who never saw that 
peculiar colour before; but the great exhibitors, the 
best plant growers in the world, did not even know the 
