THE COTTAGE 
GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, 
March 2!), 1859. 
893 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
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near London in 1S58. 
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Barometer. 
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Ruin in 
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Pimelia iucana. 
Grevillea linearis. 
Boronia Frazeri. 
Dillwynia aericea. 
Diplacus g-lutinosiis. 
4th, or Midl. Sunday. 
Eyaeris gran diflora. 
30.013—29.828 
20.738—29.509 
29.371—29.985 
29.848—29.312 
29.917—29.447 
29.G13—29.542 
30.100—29.879 
84—20 
80— 44 
61—34 
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l&t li * ; indS4 (, ,espeotirely. The greatest heat, 78*, accurred on the 3rd, in 1818 ; and the lowest cold, 15°, 
oa the 30th, in 1858. During the period 139 days were fine, nud on 85 rain lell. 
GARDENING OPERATIONS EOR THE WEEK. 
KITCHEN GARDEN. 
BiSAisrs, Broad. —Earth-up the early crop ; but, before 
doing so, sprinkle some soot along the sides, to save the 
stems from slugs. 
Broccoli. —Sow Early Penzance and Snow’s Winter 
White, for cutting in January and February ; and Purple 
Sprouting , Knight's Protecting, and Pilcoc/c’s Pride, a 
new sort, in high repute, for cutting in March and April. 
Carrots. — Sow Waite's Intermediate, or Long Surrey, 
for general crop. 
Cauliflowers. — Stir the soil amongst the plants under 
hand-lights. Supply them freely with water, to prevent 
buttoning. Prick out, on a slight hotbed, the plants 
raised in heat. 
Celeey. —Prick out the spring-sown on a gentle bottom 
heat, and protect with a frame, or hand-glass, until well 
established. 
Ceess. —Sow Extra Fine-curled. It should be cut often, 
when it will continue to shoot. It is useful, not only for 
salad, but for the breakfast-table, and for garnishing. 
Cucumbers. —As the days lengthen, and the sun be¬ 
comes more powerful, a brisker heat in the beds may he 
kept up with advantage. Attention to be given to a due 
supply of air and water. If green fly, or thrips, appear, 
immediate recourse must he had to fumigations with 
tobacco. 
Endive. —Sow the New Imperial Batavian; it pro¬ 
duces a fine white heart. 
Lettuce. —Plant out all remaining winter plants, and 
prick out the spring-sown. 
Onions. —Sow the Silver-sJcinned on a poor, dry piece 
of ground, to produce picklers. Plant out the autumn- 
sown, if not done before. 
Peas. —Sow Waite’s King of Harrows, Woodford Green 
Narrow, or any other approved sorts, for succession. 
Radishes. —Sow, and keep up a regular succession by 
sowing a few every fortnight. 
Sea-kale. —Remove the covering as soon as it is done 
with. If any more plants have to be covered, let it be 
done before they grow long. 
FRUIT GARDEN. 
Ateicots, Peaches, and Nectarines. — Disbudding a 
little at a time, and often, is better than removing a great 
many at once. Keep a sharp look out for the green fly 
on the young shoots, which should be syringed with 
tobacco water as soon as perceived. 
Goosebebeies. —Remove suckers from them, and from 
all other fruit trees, as soon as they make their appearance. 
FLOWER GARDEN. 
Bedding-plants. —Continue to put in cuttings of all 
that are likely to be required, and pot off all that are 
rooted or struck. Scarlet Geraniums, Verbenas, Calceo¬ 
larias, Petunias, and other such plants for bedding out, 
p ill do better if removed to a cold frame, as the first step 
to harden them off for planting out in due time. 
Calceolaeias. —Shift on the young stock, placing them 
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j low in the pots to encourage them to throw out young 
roots from the lower part of the stem. When they have 
made fresh growth, to be stopped, to keep them dwarf 
and bunchy. Cuttings taken off now root readily in a 
gentle bottom heat. 
Chrysanthemums.— When well rooted, to be potted 
off singly into small pots; and when they have made 
fresh growth, to be topped back to three or four eyes, to 
make them dwarf and bushy; and the tops put in, if 
wanted, as cuttings. 
Climbers. —Plant against walls, arbours, or to ascend 
upon poles, trees, &c. 
Fuchsias.— If grown in a pyramidal form, and planted 
in a row at each side of a walk, or singly on the margins 
of a lawn, they are most ornamental during the summer 
and autumn. They require to he grown in a moist, 
warm temperature, ahd to be syringed frequently. The 
green fly must be kept down by all means ; for, if allowed 
to get a-head, it soon cripples them. Stout cuttings taken 
now from the old plants, when two or three inches long, 
stuck into a pan of sand, kept wet, and placed in a gentle 
bottom heat, will root freely. If potted when struck, 
and properly attended to afterwards, they will make fine 
blooming plants this season. 
Nasturtiums. —Sow. 
Pansies. —Plant out into beds those wintered in frames, 
seedlings, &c. Stir the surface of the soil in the beds 
planted in autumn, and fill up any vacancies. Sow seed. 
Poly'antiiuses. —Sow seed. Plant in beds and borders. 
Divide the roots for increase, and plant the offsets. 
Tritoma uvabia. — Purchase aud plant for autumn 
display. 
Weeds. —Take every opportunity of eradicating them. 
Hand-weed where practicable, as, at this season of showery' 
weather, it more effectually answers the purpose than 
hoeing and raking. William Keane. 
EXHIBITION OF HYACINTHS. 
Messes. Cutbusii and Son’s, Highgate. 
It was a common sum, when I first went to school, to 
make out the quantity of land which a cow could graze 
over with a rope tied to her tail, and the other end of it 
fastened to a stake driven into the ground—say in the 
centre of a meadow; the cow, and the tail, and the rope, 
being of a stated length. But the adage says, “ No animal 
can go beyond his tether,”—that being the old name of the 
rope or chain with which to tether animals at grass. And 
if that were so, the tether might have been tied to a ring 
in the nose of the cow. Now, whether you take the view 
of the adage, or of the cow’s-tail way of getting to the 
end of the tether of the Horticultural Society, you shall 
come to the same point; and if for “animal ” we substitute 
“ animation,” we shall now find that all the animation of 
that venerable lady is out at the end of the tether. The 
first practical illustration of that fact was the announce¬ 
ment of a Camellia Show at the Vauxhall Nursery, and 
of the Hyacinth Exhibition, at which we shall now glance. 
