THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, October 11, 1859. 
15 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
Day 
of 
M’ntli 
Day 
of 
Week. 
11 
Tu 
12 
W 
13 
Th 
14 
F 
15 
S 
16 
Sun 
17 
M 
OCTOBER 11—17, 1859. 
Malva campanuloides. 
Manulea viscosa. 
Mesembryanthemum serrulatum. 
Mesembryanthemum minutum. 
Mesembryanthemum surrectum. 
17 Sunday after Trinity. 
Mesembryanthemum taurinum. 
29.715—29.512 
29.985—29.885 
30.070—29.901 
30.181—29.120 
30.096—29.899 
29.815—29.091 
29.807—29.765 
NEAR LONI 
Thermom. 
on in 1858. 
Wind Rain in 
VVincu ; Inches. 
Sun 
Rises. 
Sun 
Sets. 
Moon 
Rises 
and Sets 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 
afterSun 
Day of 
Year. 
55—26 
W. 
.00 
18 af 6 
16 af 5 
rises 
© 
13 
8 
284 
56—46 
W. 
.02 
20 
6 
13 
5 
4 a 57 
16 
13 
23 
285 
65—45 
s.w. 
.05 
22 
6 
11 
5 
5 14 
17 
13 
37 
286 
64—52 
s.w. 
.00 
23 
6 
9 
5 
5 40 
18 
13 
52 
287 
61—38 
s.w. 
.00 
25 
6 
7 
5 
6 15 
19 
14 
5 
288 
59—47 
s. 
.00 
27 
6 
5 
5 
7 4 
20 
14 
18 
289 
58—36 
N.W. 
.22 
29 
6 
3 
5 
8 9 
21 
14 
31 
290 
Meteorology of the Week. —At Chiswick, from observations during the last thirty-two years, the average highest and lowest 
temperatures of these days are 29.95° and 29.83°, respectively. The greatest heat, 76°, occurred on the 14th, in 184j ; and the lowest cold, 
24°, on the 15th, in 1850. ’ During the period 119 days were fine, and on 105 rain fell. 
IN-DO Oil GARDENING OPERATIONS EOR 
THE WEEK. 
more free admission of sunlight into the interior of the 
house. 
FORCING-HOUSES. 
GREENHOUSE AND CONSERVATORY. 
The plants being cleaned, surfaced, staked, and ar¬ 
ranged, they will require hut little beyond tlie ordinary 
attentions of watering and regulating the admission of 
air. Plants, when fresh surfaced, sometimes droop with¬ 
out any apparent cause, which generally arises from the 
roots being very dry ; the fresh soil absorbing most of 
the moisture, and the water escaping between the pot 
and ball of earth. This is usually brought on by surfacing 
the plants when dry : as soon, therefore, as the conse¬ 
quences are observed, the plants should be examined, 
and sufficient water given to wet the ball of earth 
thoroughly. 
Chrysanthemums. —Treat them without further delay 
as advised in a late Calendar. An occasional and mode¬ 
rate supply of clear liquid manure will assist to develope 
their flowers to greater perfection. If any indication of 
mildew appear an application of the flowers ol sulphur, 
when the foliage is damp, will banish it. 
Euchsias. —Encourage the young stock to continue 
their blooming by the application of a little weak liquid 
manure. When the flowering is over, and they have lost 
most of their leaves, they may then be set aside in any 
corner free from frost for the winter. To be kept mode¬ 
rately dry. 
Myrtles. —These and other such evergreen plants 
requiring protection to be placed in pits or frames, or in 
any other structure, as near the glass as possible. To be 
watered regularly; but, like all other plants, care must 
be taken that they do not get too much at any time 
during the ivinter. 
Cucumbers.— The plants for a winter supply of fruit 
should now be making progress. Keep the vines thin, 
and use every means to keep up a good heat, with liberal 
admissions of air at all favourable opportunities, to get 
them strong and vigorous against the winter months. 
Stop mildew by dusting the leaves with sulphur. 
Mushrooms. —Succession-beds to be made according 
to previous directions. Give a good sprinkling to those 
in bearing, to produce a genial humidity ; and turn the 
covering material occasionally, to keep them sweet and 
free from mouldiness. 
Peaches. —When the trees in the early house are 
pruned, it is advisable to cover the cuts, when dry, with 
white lead, to prevent the admission of air and water to 
the wound. Wash the trellis, whitewash the flues and 
walls, and make every part of the house clean. Dress 
the trees with a mixture of soft soap and sulphur in hot 
water ; to be well rubbed in with a brush or sponge. 
Vines.— Continue to look over the ripe Grapes, cutting 
out any decaying berries. If the fruit is to be kept for 
any length of time, and if any plants, through want of 
other accommodation, must be kept under the Vines, 
they should be watered in the morning, using a little 
fire heat in the day, with air, to expel damp before night. 
Whatever system of pruning is adopted, whether the 
long-rod or spur, it is advisable, when the brown scale is 
visible, to take off the loose bark, to wash them, and the 
wires and rafters, with soft soap dissolved in hot water, 
using a hard brush, being careful not to injure the buds ; 
afterwards to apply hot lime, made to the consistency of 
thick paint. William Keane. 
STOVE AND ORCHID-HOUSE. 
The plants that have taken their rest should be shaken 
out, and repotted ; pruning back such as require it, and 
placing them in a gentle bottom heat. The Orchids 
showing bloom — such as the Cypripediums, Phajus 
grandifolius and Stenorhynchus speciosus —to be supplied 
with plenty of heat and moisture. Some of the other 
gor t s — S uch as the Catasetums, the Cycnoches, Lycastes, 
&c., that are approaching their dormant state—to be 
accommodated, if possible, with a drier and cooler atmo¬ 
sphere. All fast-growing plants—such as Clerodendrums, 
Vincas, &c.—that require large pots in summer, to be 
now turned out of their pots, the soil to be shaken from 
them, and repotted into the smallest sized pots that will 
contain them, without pruning the roots much at this 
time. 
Climbers. —Some of the most rambling will now want 
some pruning, more especially where they obstruct the 
light in any material degree. The Combretums, Echites, 
Ipomseas, "Mandevillas, late-blooming Passifloras, Pergu- 
larias, Stephanotises, Thunbergias, &c., which are still 
growing, to be regulated with a more gentle hand, cutting 
out but little more than barren shoots, and drawing the 
remainder into somewhat closer festoons, to allow the 
No. 576.— Vol. XXIII. No. 2. 
BULBS, ROOTS, AND TUBERS. 
There are so many things which occur naturally to 
one’s mind just now on looking round the garden, that 
the post-office revenue is much increased every autumn 
from the extra number of letters that are sent to all 
editors of gardening literature at the tail of the season. 
But from one thing and another, from reporting shows 
and show places, from waiting day after day for the sun 
to shine, or else be laid up with sciatica and lumbago, by 
getting wet through to the skin, and from other causes, 
the work has so accumulated on my hands that I should 
need a new broom to sweep my heap right off. Instead 
of that, however, I prefer the handle of the old broom, 
and shall give you a broomstick article about bulbs, 
“roots,” and tubers. 
The best Hyacinths, in a running shade of colours, 
will be found in the Vol. for last spring. They stand 
there just in the way ladies would have them planted in 
beds or in ribbon-borders, for I saw them all in perfection 
at the time at tbe first exhibition of Hyacinths by Messrs. 
Cutbush & Son, of Highgate, who “ have now the grati¬ 
fication of announcing that, in consequence of the success 
which attended that exhibition, they have resolved to 
