THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, July 20, 1858. 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
Day 
of 
Mth 
Day 
of 
Week, 
i 
Weather near London in 1857. 
— ■ 
JULY 20—26, 1858. 
Barometer. 
Thermo. 
Wind. 
Rain in 
Inches. 
Sun 
Rises. 
Sun 
Sets. 
Moon 
R.andS. 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 
afterSun 
Day of 
Year. 
20 
Tu 
I Alona ohtusa. 
30.026—29.951 
81—47 
W. 
.04 
8 af 4 
4 af 8 
32 af 11 
1 0 
6 
1 
201 
21 
W 
Alona rostrata. 
30.070—30.003 
77—58 
SAV. 
— 
9 4 
3 8 
morn. 
11 
6 
4 
202 
22 
Tii 
Alstromeria aurea. 
29.980—29.910 
78—56 
s.w. 
.20 
11 4 
2 8 
5 0 
1 9 
6 
7 
203 
23 
F 
Amelus lychnitis. 
29.972—29.934 
81—57 
s.w. 
12 4 
0 8 
51 0 
13 
14 
6 
9 
204 
24 
S 
Anacampseros angustifolia. 
29.960—29.809 
80—57 
s.w. 
— 
13 4 
VII. 
49 1 
6 
11 
205 
25 
Sun 
8 Sun. aft. Trin. St. James. 
29.948—29.754 
75—37 
w. 
— 
15 4 
58 7 
58 2 
6 
12 
206 
26 
M 
[Ducii. Cambridge Born. 
29.902—29.955 
77—48 
s.w. 
16 4 
56 7 
rises 
© 
6 
12 
207 
Meteorology op the Week.— At Chiswick, from observations during 
the last thirty-one years 
the average highest 
and lowest. 
temperatures of these days are 73°.0 and 51.8°, respectively. The greatest heat, 92°, 
40°, on the 23rd, in 1843. During the period 144 days were fine, and on 103 rain fell. 
occurred on the 25th, in 1844 ; and the lowest cold, 
GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK. 
KITCHEN GARDEN. 
The late rains have wonderfully revived vegetation, 
and prepared the recently dug, or to be dug, ground 
for the reception of the autumn and winter crops. 
When transplanting, retain the leaves, as they assist to 
establish the plants in the ground. The reasons may 
not be obvious to all, but are too tedious to detail here. 
If any doubt is entertained, deprive Endive, Celery, or 
any other culinary vegetable, of a portion of its leaves 
at the tijne of planting, and plant a portion with the 
leaves entire. The experiment will prove the use and 
advantage of leaves. 
Brussels Sprouts. —Plant out, as the weather is 
most favourable for the purpose. 
Curled Kale. —Plant out. 
Cauliflowers. — Plant the main crop in rich 
ground; it will be most useful for an autumn supply. 
Cucumbers. —Remove the decayed leaves from the 
plants in the frames, and give them, in warm weather, 
a liberal supply of water about twice a week. Sow 
seed, if fruit is wanted through the winter. The 
plants, on ridges, to be mulched with clean straw, and 
a few bushy sticks, or short poles, stuck amongst them, 
on which to train the runners, to elevate the fruit, and 
by that means to preserve it from spotting, by contact 
with the moisture of the earth. 
Herbs (for drying).—Gather, before their flowers 
open. To be spread out thinly, and dried quickly in 
the shade. 
Horseradish. —Pull up the suckers between the 
main stools. 
Lettuce. —Thin, and transplant a sufficient quantity 
for use. To be kept well watered in dry weather. 
Onions. —Pull up the autumn sown, if fit, and lay 
them in the sun, as advised last week; but, if the 
weather be showery, spread them out thinly, on a dry 
floor in an open shed, or in any other dry, airy place. 
Keep the spring-sown crops clear from weeds, and, if 
any remain too thick, thin them to a proper distance. 
Parsley. —Sow, if not done in the early part of 
the month. Gather seed as it ripens, or the earliest 
and best will be lost. 
Potatoes. —Plant a few rows, closer than for spring 
planting, to produce a late and generally an inferior 
crop, but with the flavour of new ones. 
Radishes. —Sow for a successional crop. 
Savoys.— Plant out full crops, in the most open situa¬ 
tions, in rows, from two feet to two feet and a half 
asunder, that they may have sufficient time and space 
to form full Cabbaged-heads, of a large growth, for 
winter use. 
Spinach. —Sow Flanders, for early winter use. 
FRUIT GARDEN. 
Grapes (out of doors) are forward and abundant 
this season, and should receive every attention in 
stopping and training the shoots, for the admission of 
sun and air, with the hope of a fine autumn to ripen 
the fruit. When the least speck of mildew appears on 
the fruit, apply flowers of sulphur. 
Strawberries. —Prepare the borders for new plan¬ 
tations, by very deeply trenching, and afterwards lay 
on a dressing of half decomposed manure, and fork it 
in. Trench down the old worn-out beds, and plant 
with culinary vegetables. 
FLOWER GARDEN. 
Auriculas. —Protect from heavy rains, as wet lodg¬ 
ing in the crown, or heart, is very injurious to them. 
Biennials and Perennials. —Prick out the seed¬ 
lings into nursery-beds, a few inches apart, to grow 
stocky, before their final planting in September, and 
with more space from plant to plant, if it is intended to 
let them remain in the beds until spring. 
Carnations and Picotees.— Proceed with layering 
as soon as possible, to get the plants well rooted and 
established, before placing them in their winter 
quarters. 
Evergreens. — Prune where required. Clip Box 
edgings in showery weather ; and cut off the decayed 
flowers, and the sides of Thrift edgings, if they are 
irregular. 
Pansies. —Seeds to be gathered as the pods ripen, 
being particular to save from flowers of good form and 
stout petals. 
Pin ks ; — Continue to put in pipings ; and plant out 
rooted pipings on beds of well-prepared soil, not too 
rich. 
Ranunculuses.— Take up each root as the leaves 
turn yellow ; for, if you wait until the whole collection 
is ready, some will have arrived at maturity, and will 
again have made a fresh start into growth, and ma¬ 
terially injure their preservation. 
Roses. —The budding should now be carried on till 
finished. 
Violets.— Make fresh plantations of the Russian. 
"William Keane. 
THE BEST TIME TO PROPAGATE BEDDING 
PLANTS, 
A correspondent has opened this question,—a ques¬ 
tion most essential to be thoroughly understood by 
every man and woman who plants the smallest flower¬ 
bed, or the largest flower garden, on the bedding 
system. After informing us of his conveniences for 
wintering his bedding plants, he goes on to ask— 
“ Would it be better for me to strike cuttings now 
than in spring ? ” 
I always thought that Mr. Fleming, at Trentham, 
and Mr. Foggo, at Shrubland Park, were the greatest 
planters of bedding plants in the three kingdoms ; and 
I ought to know the number which would suffice to fill 
Mr. Foggo’s domain. But, at the last Chiswick Show, 
I was told, by one who knows Trentham and Shrub- 
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