THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, August 3, 1858. 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
i Day 
! of 
:Mth 
_ 
Day 
of 
Week. 
AUGUST 3—9, 1858. 
Weather near Lon 
1 
Barometer, j Thermo. 
1 
DON IN ] 
Wind. 
857. 
Rain in 
Inches. 
Sun 
Rises. 
Sun 
Sets. 
Moon 
R.andS. 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 
afterSun 
Day of 
Year. 
3 
Tu 
Adesmia viscosa. 
30.016—29.902 
90—51 
S. 
_ 
28 af 4 
44 af 7 
33 af 10 
24 
5 
54 
215 
4 
W 
Aloe depresea. 
29.904—29.880 
88—52 
s.w. 
— 
29 
4 
42 7 
12 11 
25 
5 
49 
216 
5 
Th 
Aloe flavispina. 
29.871—29.761 
77—54 
s.w. 
.88 
31 
4 
41 7 
morn. 
26 
5 
44 
217 
! 6 
E 
Prince Alfred born, 1844. 
29.698—29.610 
78—51 
s.w. 
.30 
33 
4 
39 7 
0 12 
27 
5 
38 
218 
7 
s 
Aloe nobilis. 
29.698—29.640 
68—54 
s.w. 
— 
34 
4- 
37 7 
29 1 
28 
5 
3i 
219 
1 8 
Sun 
10 Sunday after Trinity. 
29.714—29.648 
67—52 
s.w. 
— 
36 
4 
35 7 
0 3 
29 
5 
54 
290 
9 
M 
Aloysia citriodoria. 
29.948—29.749 
70—43 
w. 
.14 
37 
4 
33 7 
'sets 
© 
5 
16 
221 
Meteorology op the Week. —At Cliiswick, from observations during the last thirty-one years, the average highest and lowest 
temperatures of these days are 74°.3 and 51.2°, respectively. The greatest heat, 92°, occurred on the 3rd, in 1856 ; and the loAvest cold 
36°, on the 6th, in 1833. During the period 125 days were fine, and on 92 rain fell. 
GARDENING OPERATIONS EOR THE WEEK. 
KITCHEN GARDEN. 
Advantage should now be taken of showery weather, 
for transplanting an abundance of vegetables for supply 
throughout the winter. The decline of some of the 
earlier quarters of JPeas, Beans, Cauliflowers, and 
Spinach, will afford ground for making further ad¬ 
ditions to the stock of Broccoli and Winter Greens, 
such as Brussels Sprouts, Curled Kale, Savoys, & c. 
Have the ground between all crops frequently hoed, 
both to keep down weeds and to retain moisture, by 
filling up the cracks. 
Cabbage.— Plant out abundantly, of the June and 
; July sowings, for young Cabbage and Coleworts, in the 
I autumn and winter. 
Cardoons. —If advanced to full growth, tie up the 
leaves close, and earth-up all round each plant, to 
blanch. 
Cauliflowers. —Hoe, and draw earth to the stems 
of such as were planted out last month, for autumn 
and winter crops. 
Celery. —Continue planting more into trenches, for 
a plentiful successional winter crop. 
Leeks.— Earth-up three or four inches high, to 
blanch, or whiten, the lower portion. 
Nasturtium Berries. —Gather, for pickling. 
Peas.— Earth, and stick the late crops. 
Radishes.—S ow, for succession, in light, moist soil. 
Scarlet Runners. —Stick, and top the late crops. 
Spinach. —Sow. The Flanders is the best sort for 
winter use. The seed is nearly round, and smooth, 
like the common round, which is sometimes sent by 
seedsmen for the Flanders, and, consequently, is a sad 
disappointment to the grower. 
Turnips. —Sow a small quantity . 
FRUIT GARDEN. 
Wall Trees. —Finish the principal summer train¬ 
ing and pruning, by cutting out the foreright and 
other ill-placed, improper, and superfluous shoots of 
the year, and training in the others close to the wall, at 
full length, where there is room to extend them. Hang 
bottles of beer, mixed with sugar, in various places, 
against the walls, where the flies, wasps, &c., are likely 
to attack fruit, to trap and destroy them. 
FLOWER GARDEN. 
This is a favourable time for noticing the effect of 
the present arrangement of the colours in the beds, 
either to vary or correct it another season. A plan of 
the garden will be useful, writing the names of the 
plants on the beds, when you have decided what each 
bed should be planted with next season. Besides, it 
will save from mistakes, being an excellent clue to 
guide in the propagation of the number of plants 
required, that these may be neither too many of one 
plant and too few of another, but with some approach 
to the exact number, by having a well-defined object 
in view. 
Bulbous Roots, of various sorts, lately out of bloom, 
and the stalks decayed, to betaken up. If an increase 
of offsets is required, to be replanted. 
Colchicums. —Plant, to flower in the autumn. 
Chrysanthemums.— Top the plants in the open 
ground. Shoots layered now will make good plants ; 
or the top shoots put in as cuttings, two or three in a 
pot, will make neat dwarf plants for blooming in the 
autumn. 
Dahlias and Hollyhocks.— To be regularly gone 
over, and tied up. The high wind of Sunday, the 25th 
ult., tested the strength of stakes and ties ; and where 
there was any neglect to provide against its wild 
career, the prostrate forms of many a favourite will 
annoy with vain regrets. 
Geraniums (Scarlet and other sorts).—Cuttings of 
them put in will strike freely in the open ground. 
Intermediate Stock.— Sow on a shady border. 
The seed to be very slightly covered. When potted, 
the plants are very easily protected, as they will bear, 
without injury, several degrees of frost during the 
winter, and are universally admired for their bright 
colour and fragrance when planted out in the spring. 
Lilies. —The White, Orange, and Martagon kinds, 
that have now done flowering, and the stalks decaying, 
may be taken up, and the offsets removed from the 
old roots ; the small offsets to be planted in a week or 
two, and the larger ones in September or October. 
Pinks. —Plant out pipings, and put in a second 
crop of cuttings. 
Polyanthuses. —Part and plant, after rain. 
Tulips. —Look over, and divest them of their loose 
skins. William Keane. 
THE BEST TIME TO STRIKE BEDDING 
PLANTS. 
Under this head we have disposed of all the 
Geraniums, Calceolarias, and Petunias ; and our con¬ 
clusion in respect to them was, that the Scarlet 
Geraniums should be struck in the autumn : and the 
greenhouse kinds, as Quercifoils, Diadematums, and 
Uniques, more especially the hitter section, are better 
from early spring cuttings. Calceolarias to be thus 
propagated in September, October, and November; 
and Petunias in July, or as early as the plants are in 
perfect health and strength, and not too much in the 
llowering humour. In the spring, Petunias will grow 
faster into cuttings than Verbenas, under the same 
degree of forcing heat, and a few plants of any of the 
kinds will soon make a stock of young plants. There¬ 
fore, under all circumstances, I would prefer spring- 
struck Petunias, provided I could get them early,—that 
is, to have them all finished off-hand by the end of 
March. 
The Verbenas come next, and Robinsons Defiance is 
still the best scarlet bedder amongst them, for our 
light soil about Kingston ; but I shall get notes from 
No. 514. Vol. XX. 
