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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, June 8, 1858. 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
• 
THE COTTAGE C 
Day 
of 
Mth 
Day 
of 
Week. 
JUNE 8—15, 1858. 
8 
Tu 
Antfiocercis riscosa. 
9 
W 
An thy llis tragacantoides. 
10 
Th 
Azaleas. 
11 
F 
St. Barnabus. 
12 
S 
Aphelexis humilis. 
13 
Sun 
2 Sunday aftkr Trinity. 
14 
M 
Aphelexis macrantlia. 
Weather near London in 1857. 
Barometer. : Thermo. 
29.759—29.725 
29.794—29.759 
29.589—29.528 
29.085—29.801 
30.278—30.155 
30.297—30.206 
30.135—29.977 
69—47 
66— 43 
67— 44 
68— 35 
66—31 
69— 31 
70— 43 
Wind. 
S.W. 
s.w. 
S.W. 
w. 
N.E. 
E. 
E. 
Rain in 
Inches. 
.15 
.10 
.02 
Sun 
Rises. 
Sun 
Sets. 
Moon 
R.anclS. 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 
afterSun 
-1 
Day of 
Year. 
46 af 3 
11 af 8 
23 af 1 
26 
1 
22 
159 
46 3 
12 
8 
42 1 
27 
1 
10 
160 
45 3 
13 
8 
8 2 
28 
0 
58 
161 
45 3 
14 
8 
sets 
% 
0 
46 
162 
45 3 
14 
8 
1 10 
1 
0 
34 
163 
44 3 
15 
8 
43 10 
2 
0 
22 
164 
44 3 
15 
8 
10 11 
3 
0 
9 
165 
Meteorology 
temperatures of 
34°, on the 13th, in 1849 
of the Week.— At Chiswick, from observations during the last thirty-one 
these days are 71.2° and 4.87°, respectively. The greatest heat, 90°, occurred o 
During the period 125 days were fine, and on 92 rain fell. 
years, the average highest and lowest 
on the 13th, in 1842 ; and the lowest cold, 
GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK. 
KITCHEN GARDEN. 
Whenever water is necessary it should be given 
copiously ; as slight sprinklings very frequently do 
more harm than good. Hoe deeply and frequently, 
leaving the soil light and porous. 
Asparagus. —Discontinue cutting ; as late and close 
cutting is one of the principal causes of weak “grass” 
next year. 
Cabbages. — Prick out, four inches apart, young 
seedling plants from seed beds. 
Carrots, Onions, and Parsnips, to be kept pro¬ 
perly thinned. 
Cauliflower. —The plants now forming their heads 
to be watered and mulched with short litter, which 
will cause them to produce close and compact heads. 
Celery. —Plant out successional crops into trenches; 
to be taken up with a ball of earth, and the leaves to 
be left entire—not trimmed ; to be well watered when 
planted. If the surface of the soil around the earliest 
crop is hard, from frequent waterings, it should be 
loosened, for the free admission of air and future 
waterings. 
Cucumbers. —Fresh linings to be applied to the 
plants that have been bearing for some time ; to be 
cut back, if irregular in growth; to be watered, and a 
couple of inches of fresh soil to be added ; kept close, 
and shaded for a few days, until they have made fresh 
growth; and to be sprinkled with water every fine 
afternoon. 
Endive. —Sow for the main crop, and plant out 
some of the early sowing. 
Lettuce. —Sow, and tie up some of the most for¬ 
ward for blanching. 
Parsley. —Sow, and thin the former sowings to six 
inches apart. 
Potatoes. — Keep the ground loose between the 
rows. 
Pot-herbs, such as Thyme, Savory, Marjoram , &c.— 
The seedlings to be planted six inches apart. 
Turnips. —Sow for a main crop, and thin out the 
last sowing to six or eight inches apart. 
FRUIT GARDEN. 
Apricots. —Thin finally; nail in the young wood, 
and destroy the maggot, which, curling itself in the 
leaves, does them and the young fruit much injury. 
Cherries. —Net from birds; thin and naii in the 
shoots full length. 
Pears. —Break off the foreright shoots ; thin out 
small or misshapen fruit; and look out for the maggot 
in the curled leaf. 
Strawberries. —Peg runners into small pots of 
strong, rich soil. 
Vines. —Remove foreright shoots ; pinch off the 
J top one joint above the fruit, and nail up the leading 
! shoots. Employ sulphur on the appearance, or on the 
! suspicion of mildew. 
Wall Trees will require frequent attention in 
pruning, thinning the fruit, and nailing. All the late- 
lanted trees to be watered and mulched; and, if very 
ry weather, all wall trees would be benefited by a 
thorough good watering at the roots, and by syringing 
over-head in the evening. Employ the engine against 
the green fly as soon as it is seen, as the perfect de¬ 
velopment of the buds for another season will depend, 
in a great measure, upon the healthy action of the 
foliage. 
FLOWER GARDEN. 
The early-planted beds would be improved by a 
slight hoeing amongst the plants, to loosen the soil. 
When pegging down the plants, their points to be 
directed rather northwards, as the sun will draw them 
towards the south and upright. 
Bedding Plants.— Ageratums, Calceolarias, and 
other such comparatively tall-growing bedding plants, 
to be staked and tied up, to prevent injury from winds. 
Carnations.— Tie them carefully as they advance 
in growth. 
Climbers against walls and trellises to be frequently 
gone over, to tie or nail them in. 
Delphiniums, Hollyhocks, Phloxes, &e.— The 
shoots, if not already done, to be thinned out, and 
the stems neatly tied to stakes. 
_ Pansies. —Continue to propagate by slips and cut¬ 
tings. 
Polyanthuses. —Part, and choose for them a shady 
situation, to be sheltered from north and easterly 
winds. William Keane. 
THE BEDDING-OUT SYSTEM. 
“The Doctor’s” bed, which caused so much talk, 
both here and in Ireland, last year, was made of Tom 
Thumb Geraniums and white Petunias ; and one of 
the simplest and cheapest ways to get up a white 
Petunia bed, is to sow seeds of any good white kind 
about the end of March, in a hotbed, and to take the 
seedlings to a cool frame, as soon as the heat is telling 
against them, by giving them spindley legs ; to prick 
them out, four or five together, into small 48-pots, and 
to harden them, so as to be fit for planting out by the | 
20th of May. Then to plant the four or five in each I 
pot, as single plants, but to squeeze or flatten the ball 
a little in the planting, to cause it to unite, as it were, 
with the soil in the bed. 
A bed of that sort would thus be soon filled or 
covered, and if any of the seedlings did not prove 
satisfactory, let them be pulled up, and still therewould 
be three or four plants to pick and choose from ; and 
one ought to pull up so many of the seedlings, at certain 
stages in the progress of the bed, till at last there 
were no more plants left^than could find room, and 
sufficient food to carry on a grand display of bloom 
for a whole season. 
Now, the whole system of bedding out, or of sowing 
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