THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, November 22, 1859. 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
Day Day 
of of 
M’nth Week. 
Weather near London in 1858. 
1 
Moon 
NOVEMBER 22—28, 1859. 
' 
Barometer. 
Thermom. 
Wind. 
Rain in 
Inches. 
Sun 
Rises. 
Sun 
Sets. 
Rises 
and Sets 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 
afterSun 
Day of 
Year. 
22 Tu 
Sun’s declin. 20° G's. 
30.132—30.011 
38—12 
F,. 
— 
32 af 7 
1 af 4 
9 5 
27 
13 47 
326 
23 W 
Oxalis laxula. 
30.063—29.924 
28—09 
E. 
— 
33 7 
59 3 
33 6 
28 
13 30 
327 
24 Tit 
Oxalis repatrix. 
29.863—29.627 
34—29 
S.E. 
— 
35 7 
59 3 
sets 
© 
13 13 
328 
25 F 
Oxalis variabilis. 
29.487—29.236 
50—45 
S.E. 
.02 
36 7 
58 3 
0 a 4 
1 
12 55 
329 
26 S 
Oxalis Simsii. 
29.292—29.216 
57—36 
S.W. 
.02 
38 7 
57 3 
54 4 
2 
12 37 
330 
27 Sun 
Advent Sunday. 
29.045—28.975 
51—39 
s. 
.04 
40 7 
56 3 
0 6 
3 
12 17 
331 
28 M 
Primula sinensis. 
29.208—29.049 
50—40 
w. 
* 
41 7 
55 3 
10 7 
4 
11 57 
j 
332 | 
Meteorology op the Week. —At Chiswick, from observations during the 
last thirty-two years, the average highest and lowest 
temperatures of these days are 47.3° and 34.2 D , respectively. The greatest heat, 59° 
on the 22nd, in 1827. During the period 117 days were fine, and on 107 rain fell. 
, occurred on the 27th, in 1843 ; and the lowest cold, 
20°, | 
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IN-DOOR GARDENING OPERATIONS EOR 
THE WEEK. 
GREENHOUSE AND CONSERVATORY. 
The great object should now be to keep them mo¬ 
derately dry; water, when necessary, to be given in the 
forenoon. Gentle fires to be applied in the daytime, 
with a sufficiency of air to allow the vapour to pass off. 
All decaying leaves, flower-stalks, &c., to be carefully 
picked off. All weeds, moss on the surface of pots, or 
anything else that would tend to cause dampness, mildew, 
or decomposition, to be cleared away. Pinch off the 
tops of any of the half-hardy plants that are growing 
too rapidly. 
Climbers. —To be closely tied, that they may interfere 
as little as possible with the admission of light. 
Forcing Pit. —The various plants described in former 
Calendars, and recommended to be forwarded here for 
furnishing the drawing-room, conservatory, or mixed 
greenhouse, will require careful and skilful attention. 
Moderate syringings with tepid water to be given on 
suitable occasions. Fire heat to be applied, more especially 
in the daytime, with air at every favourable opportunity. 
The pit to be shut up early, and the heat to be husbanded 
by external coverings in preference to night heat. 
Syringings with the Gishurst Compound, or frequent and 
moderate fumigations of tobacco smoke, to be given to 
destroy green fly. The water to be always tepid when 
applied to the roots or branches when they require it. 
New Holland Plants. —As they are very apt to suffer 
when exposed to cold draughts of air, and as they are 
generally wintered in the same house with the more 
hardy sorts of greenhouse plants, they should occupy a 
part of the house where air can be admitted, when neces¬ 
sary, from the top lights only. 
Orange Trees. —Advantage to be taken of unfavour¬ 
able weather for out-door work, to clean the foliage of 
Orange trees and Camellias. It is as essential to the 
health of such things that the foliage be kept clean, and, 
therefore, in a fit state to perform its functions, as that 
their roots be kept in a healthy, active state. 
FORCING-HOUSES. 
Asparagus. —Make a slight hotbed of tree leaves, if 
they can be procured, of size or substance sufficient only 
to cause a gentle heat. The roots may be taken up from 
the open ground, and planted at once in the bed. Mice 
and slugs to be looked after. Any vacant pits, or frames, 
may be made available for the purpose of forcing 
Asparagus. 
Cherries. —To be treated as advised for Peaches. 
Cucumbers. —If the plants are strong, and you have 
a full command of bottom and atmospheric heat, you 
may calculate, with a little attention, upon ultimate 
success. Air to be admitted when it is safe to do so, to 
get the leaves dry, if possible, daily. Light is indispen¬ 
sable, and steep-roofed houses, or pits, are preferred for 
that object in winter. The early nursing-box for young 
plants should be well supplied with linings, the glass 
washed clean and kept in good repair. 
No. 582.—ton. XXIII. No. 8. 
Mushrooms. —Continue to prepare succession-beds as 
formerly directed. The beds that have been in bearing 
some time, if the surface is dry, to be watered with clear, 
weak liquid manure, a few degrees warmer than the 
temperature of the house. 
Peaches. —The early house should now be set in order, 
by being thoroughly cleansed, whitewashed, and the trees 
pruned, dressed, and tied. Air to be given during the 
day, and the house to be shut up at night for a fortnight 
or three weeks, preparatory to the commencement of 
forcing. 
Pines. —The principal objects of attention during the 
present dull season should comprise a moderate declen¬ 
sion of heat and moisture, and a moderate supply of air 
at all times when it can be admitted with safety. When 
heat is supplied by fermenting materials the linings will 
require some sort of covering—as straw, fern, boards, or 
shutters—to protect them from cold winds, frosts, or 
rains ; only a gentle bottom heat is now required at this, 
that should be, their season of rest, as a dry and moderately 
warm atmosphere is nearly all they will require. If the 
young plants are growing in pits heated solely by dung 
linings, be careful to exclude the steam from the dung, 
as excess of damp will rot the hearts of the plants. 
Vines. —If early Grapes are required, it is advisable 
to adopt the old-fashioned plan of placing some sweet hot 
dung inside the house, to produce an atmosphere that is 
most congenial for softening the wood, and for “breaking” 
the buds. The roots, if outside, to be covered with a 
good depth of litter, to produce an increase of heat by 
fermentation, and to prevent the escape of terrestrial 
heat. All Vines casting their leaves to be pruned im¬ 
mediately. William Keane. 
TRITOMA UVARIA, TRITONIA AUREA, 
AND FARFUG1UM GRANDE. 
Down to 9s. per dozen in less than one-third of the 
same number of years since The Cottage Gardener 
advised one of its friends to offer Is. the plant for 
Tritoma uvaria, when it was marked in the price cur¬ 
rent of the day at 30s. per dozen, or 3s. each! But, 
suppose there was such a yearly demand for it as there 
is for good, sound, mealy Potatoes, at how much per 
plant could it be sold, after paying £20 rent for an 
acre of deep, moist, sandy loam to grow it on for the 
market? I shall leave the “sum” to be calculated by 
the boys at their Christmas holidays, after showing 
them the progressive ratio, or the compound multipli¬ 
cation way of propagating it at such a distance apart, 
in rows, over an imperial acre, and allowing 50s. for 
planting and keeping clean the crop, and £5 for all 
other expenses, as digging, ploughing, or trenching, but 
nothing for rates and taxes. Every plant of it in the 
Royal Botanic Garden at Kew Avhich had more than 
fifty spikes, of bloom on it this last autumn would 
now divide into from 80 to 120 plants, every one of 
which would blossom next year; and an acre of the sets 
would do very well indeed to be planted exactly as they 
