THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, November 1, 1859. 63 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
Day 
of 
M’nth 
Day 
of 
Week. 
NOVEMBER 1—7, 1859. 
Weather 
Barometer. 
NEAR LONI 
Thermom. 
on in 1858. 
Wind - Inches! 
Sun 
Rises. 
Sun 
Sets. 
Moon 
Rises 
and Sets 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 
afterSun 
Day of 
Year. 
1 
Tv 
Aix Saints. 
30.258—30.355 
40—27 
W. 
— 
55 af 6 
33 af 4 
28 a 9 
6 
16 
17 
305 
2 
W 
Erica autumnalis. 
30.369—30.292 
46—24 
N.E. 
— 
57 6 
31 
4 
40 10 
3 
16 
18 
306 
3 
Th 
Erica hyemalis. 
30.318—30.246 
52—31 
E. 
— 
58 6 
29 
4 
51 11 
8 
16 
18 
307 
4 
F 
Erica linnteoides. 
30.231—30.173 
58—40 
E. 
.01 
VII 
27 
4 
morn. 
9 
16 
18 
308 
5 
S 
Gunpowdek Pl.OT, 1G05. 
30.1G3—30.116 
57—36 
N. 
— 
2 7 
25 
4 
2 1 
10 
16 
16 
309 
G 
Sun 
20 Sunday after Trinity. 
30.288—30.228 
52—35 
N.E. 
— 
4 7 
24 
4 
12 2 
11 
16 
14 
310 
7 
M 
Habrothamnus elegans. 
30.355—30.309 
48—36 
N.E. 
— 
6 7 
22 
4 
24 3 
12 
16 
12 
311 
MF.TKORor.ooY op the Week. —At Chiswick, from observations during the last thirty-two years, the average highest and lowest 
temperatures of these days are 53.1° and 38.2°, respectively. The greatest heat, G5°, occurred on the 1st, in 1854 ; and the lowest cold, 22°, 
on the 4th, in 1845. During the period 113 days were fine, and on 111 rain fell. 
IN-DOOR GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR 
THE WEEK. 
GREENHOUSE AND CONSERVATORY. 
Now that the dull, foggy days and sharp frosty nights 
have arrived, it is necessary to keep all plants that have 
finished their growth free from excitement, and rather 
dry at their roots. A gentle fire to be applied during 
the day, which will allow the advantage of a free circu¬ 
lation of fresh air, and, by closing up early in the after¬ 
noon, will retain sufficient heat to resist the encroachments 
of ordinary frosts during the night. But if the frost 
should set in severely, night coverings, if possible, should 
be applied in preference to fire-heat. 
American Plants, &c. —Pot, if not done, Rhododen¬ 
drons, Kalmias, hardy Azaleas, Lily of the Valley, and 
other plants usually required for winter forcing. 
Chrysanthemums. —They will require an abundance 
of air to prevent the flowers expanding •weakly. Keep 
them well supplied with water, and the leaves in a healthy 
state ; for a great portion of their beauty depends upon 
so doing. They may sometimes be seen almost entirely 
denuded of leaves when in flower, which considerably 
detracts from what should be their ornamental appear¬ 
ance in the greenhouse or conservatory. 
Primroses (Chinese).'—Give a few of the strongest and 
most forward a shift into larger pots. The double varie¬ 
ties are very useful for cutting where bouquets are much 
in request, as they do not drop the flowers like the single 
varieties. 
STOVE AND ORCHID-HOUSE. 
Great caution will now be necessary in the application 
of atmospheric heat and humidity, as an excess of either 
will cause a premature and unseasonable growth which 
no after-care could thoroughly rectify. The thermometer 
for the majority of stove plants need not at any time of 
the day exceed 60°, with a fall of 8° or 10° during the 
night. 
Begonias. —They deserve a place in every stove, as 
they are plants of easy cultivation, and bloom at a season 
when flowers are scarce ; they can also be introduced to 
the conservatory or sitting-room when in bloom. 
FORCING-HOUSES. 
Hotbeds. —Keep up the heat of dungbeds by adding 
leaves and dung to the linings ; but not sufficient of the 
latter to cause a rank steam in the frames. 
Peaches. —If any vacancies occur in the late houses 
they should now be filled up. We have before recom¬ 
mended trees of large size to be taken from the walls for 
this purpose, but in so doing care should be taken to 
select such sorts as the Murray, Rlruge, and Violette 
JKitive Nectarines ; Noblesse, Royal George, Grosse Mig- 
nonne, and Chancellor Peaches, being the best adapted for 
forcing. Some sorts are of little value as forced fruit, 
although they may bear abundantly. 
Pines. —Coverings to be used, and as little fire-heat as 
possible, to keep up the required heat during the night. 
The heat of the spring-fruiting and succession-houses to 
No. 579.—You. XXIII. No. 5. 
be gradually decreased, so that it may range from 60° to 
65°. The winter-fruiting plants to range 10° higher. 
Vines. —The Grapes will require unremitting attention 
to keep the house dry, and to cut out the decayed berries. 
It will, we suppose, be generally observed that the fruit 
that was ripe before the wet weather set in -w ill keep 
better than the more backward ones, which may be a 
useful hint “ to make hay while the sun shines,” or, in 
other words, to ripen the fruit in good time. Prune 
and dress the Vines in the succession-houses as recom¬ 
mended for the early ones. When Vines have been 
taken out of the house they should be protected from 
the vicissitudes of the weather, as they are sometimes 
greatly injured by being exposed to excessive wet and 
severe frosts. William Keane. 
FROSTED GRAPES, AND FROST-NIPPED 
PLANTS. 
When I was recording last week the triumph of a 
scientific amateur, Capt. Hopkins, of the East India and 
China trade, over your humble servant in the matter of 
growing Grapes out of doors, I little expected a more 
severe trial and strain on the judgment, which is founded 
on a long life of practice ; nor that the elements would 
favour the progress of a man thus going down in the 
world against his will and his power. To be the first in a 
village, rather than be the second in Rome, is not more 
lawful for ambition than it is wise and politic to give up 
the village with a good grace when one has lost it in a 
fair-fought battle. But for one weatherwise to be frosted 
out of Grapes just at the moment he failed on the field 
of fame, is as much as flesh and blood can hold up against 
and be in good humour. If I had done as the Horticul¬ 
tural Society have acted all along in this matter, and as 
the Doctor pointed out to me in Willis’s Rooms, and set 
my face against the practice of Grape growing out of 
doors, and my conscience against my judgment on that 
point of practice, I might have been now out of a certain 
fix, and free as the Horticultural to undertake fifty 
thousand times more than all my readers could expect of 
me ; but I should be less wise than I am by the ordeal, 
and less able to give a cordial hand and a warm support 
to any and all w r ho may aspire to excel me, as Capt. 
Hopkins has done. 
Scarlet Runners will stand 10° of frost out in the 
open air, if they hang in their pods. I have sown 
them after enduring that cold, and no Runners could 
come up more healthy, and do better than they. This 
last frost, therefore, has not hurt a Runner Bean that 
was quite ripe. Cucumber seed, and Melon seed, and 
the seeds of all the Gourds which I have seen tried, will 
stand as much frost as the Scarlet Runners, and be none 
the worse for it. And if all the seeds of all the stove 
plants in cultivation were subjected to a fair experimental 
test of the same kind and degree, I doubt not but ninety- 
nine kinds out of every hundred of them would give 
similar results. 
A Peach that is once frozen through in August arti- 
