THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, July 6, 1858. 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
201 
Day 
of 
Mth 
Day 
of 
Week. 
JULY 6—13, 1858. 
Weather near London in 1857. 
Sun 
Rises. 
Barometer. 
Thermo. 
Wind. 
Rain in 
Inches. 
6 
7 
8 
9 
10 
11 
12 
Tu 
W 
Tu 
F 
s 
Sun 
M 
Acronychia Cunninghami. 
Actinotus lielianthi. 
Adenadra fragrans. 
Adesmia uspellatensis. 
Adesmia viscosa. 
6 Sunday after Trinity. 
Ageratums. 
29.735—29.639 
29.957—29.890 
29.931—29.866 
29.906—29.868 
30.014—29.907 
30.181—30.011 
30.296—30.277 
67—45 
65—42 
70— 42 
71— 40 
76— 53 
77— 46 
86—44 
S.W. 
w. 
N.W. 
W. 
W. 
W. 
s. 
.31 
- 
.01 
53 af 3 
53 3 
54 3 
55 3 
56 3 
57 3 
58 3 
Sun 
Sets. 
Moon 
R.andS. 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 
afterSun 
Day of 
Year. 
16 af 8 
morn. 
25 
4 20 
187 
16 8 
5 af 0 
26 
4 30 
188 
15 8 
36 0 
27 
4 40 
189 
14 8 
26 1 
28 
4 49 
190 
14 8 
sets 
© 
4 58 
191 
13 8 
7 9 
1 
5 7 
192 
12 8 
31 9 
2 
5 15 
193 
temperatur 
3 
lowest 
est cold, 
GARDENING OPERATIONS EOR THE WEEK. 
KITCHEN GARDEN. 
Artichokes. —When the heads are cut, pull up, or 
cut the stalks close to the ground; remove dead leaves, 
fork up the soil lightly around, and then water and 
mulch them. 
Asparagus. —Clear the beds of weeds, and water, if 
they are dry. 
Broad Beans. —If the black fly appears, cut off the 
parts infested; top the crops coming into flower, and 
draw earth to the stems. 
Broccoli. —Prick out from the seed-bed, six inches 
apart, to grow stocky before they are finally planted, 
and plant out the strongest of the early varieties, for 
autumn use. 
Cauliflowers. —Hoe between, and earth-up, those 
that were planted out the latter part of May, or begin¬ 
ning of June ; and plant more for coming into use in 
the autumn. 
Celery. —Plant out the main crops in trenches, a 
foot deep, with dung at the bottom, which is to be 
well forked into the soil within the trench. 
Cucumbers. —Keep up the bottom heat, by linings 
to the frames; for, however warm the weather may 
be, this is necessary to procure fine fruit. 
Garlic and Shallots. —When the leaves begin to 
wither, take up the bulbs, or cloves, and, after allow¬ 
ing them to remain, for a day or two on the ground, tie 
them up in bunches, and hang them in an airy room or 
shed. 
Herbs. —Gather for drying. 
Kidney Beans (Dwarf). —Earth-up. As their pro¬ 
ductiveness is much abridged by allowing a few old 
pods to remain, it is advisable to gather every one, 
to prolong the produce to the end of the season. 
Lettuces. —Sow the Paris, or Path Cos, in drills, 
where they are to grow to their full size, after a por¬ 
tion is thinned out. 
Onions. —Thin out, and keep free from weeds. 
Parsley. —Thin out the early sowings, nine to 
twelve inches apart, for the Treble-curled produce. 
Peas.— Top the tall sorts, and give them a good 
soaking with liquid manure, to fill the pods. 
Potatoes. —Keep them cleared from large weeds, 
and mulch, if possible, between the rows. 
Radishes. —Continue to sow for succession, in a cool, 
moist situation. 
Savoys and Winter Greens. —Plant out the largest, 
and prick out the smaller from the seed-beds, to acquire 
strength for final and later planting. 
Scarlet Runners. —Top, stake, and gather close, 
as advised for Dwarf Kidney Deans. 
Spinach.—S ow for a succession. 
Turnips. —Sow the main crop, for winter use. Thin 
out former sowings, to a foot, or fifteen inches, apart. 
FRUIT GARDEN. 
Cherry Trees. —Protect from birds; cut back all 
superfluous or ill-placed shoots close to the old wood, 
on walls and espaliers; and shorten back, to one or 
two eyes, such as are intended for artificial spurs. 
The Morelia will require to have the shoots laid in at 
full length, from three to four inches apart, leaving the 
shortening of them until the winter pruning. 
Currants against walls net, to keep off birds ; and 
a few others, in the open quarters, to be covered with 
mats, to protect from birds, and to prolong the fruit in 
perfection. 
Gooseberries.— Thin out the gross shoots in the 
centre of the trees, to admit the sun to the fruit. 
Raspberries.— Clear from straggling suckers, be¬ 
tween the rows, to admit sun and air to the fruit, and 
be careful not to injure the suckers that are to form 
next year’s bearing shoots. 
Strawberries. —Pay early attention, by pegging 
them down, either in the soil or small pots, if strong 
plants are wanted for bearing next season. 
FLOWER GARDEN. 
Look over the beds frequently, to keep the young 
shoots of Verbenas, Petunias, &c., neatly regulated 
and pegged down, until the ground is regularly covered, 
when greater freedom of growth may be permitted. 
Dahlias. —Tie up as they advance, removing all 
buds that show likely to be inferior flowers. 
Mildew. —"Whenever it appears, it should be im¬ 
mediately destroyed, by applying sulphur to the plants, 
&c., affected ; first wetting them with water, that the 
sulphur may stick. 
Pansies and Polyanthuses. —Gather as the seed- 
pods ripen, to be dried in a shady place. 
Propagate Antirrhinums, Pentstemons, Phloxes, 
double-flowering perennials, and other showy herba¬ 
ceous plants, by cuttings. They take root freely under 
the shade of a north wall. 
Roses. —Bud in cloudy or wet weather; remove 
decayed flowers and seeds, and give the autumn- 
flowering varieties plenty of manure water, to produce 
vigorous health and abundant bloom. Banish green 
fly with the engine or syringe. William Keane. 
CROSSING LARKSPURS. 
After twelve long years, vainly spent industriously 
inquiring all over Europe, for the old, original, deep- 
blue, branching Larkspur, I have come to the conclusion 
that that original kind has altogether disappeared. 
The best blue I obtained, was from seeds gathered 
in the south of Spain ; but that had a small tinge of the 
purple, which has spoiled the breed,—such a degree of 
tinge as one sees in the best white Horseshoe Geraniums, 
in very hot, dry weather. I have a White Nosegay, 
which escaped that slight tinge till the late sultry 
weather, when I turned it out full in the sun ; and one 
week of it, when the days were at their longest stretch, 
tinged the edges of the petals with a light pink. I 
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