THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, August 24, 1858. 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
Day 
Day 
* • *’ > . J - 
Weather near London in 1857. 
-— 
of 
Mth 
of 
Week. 
AUGUST 24—30, 1858. 
Barometer. 
Thermo. 
Wind. 
Rain in 
Inches. 
Sun 
Rises. 
Sun 
Sets. 
Moon 
R.andS. 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 
afterSun 
Day of 
Year. 
24 
25 
26 
27 
2S 
29 
30 
Tu 
W 
Th 
F 
S 
Sun 
M 
St. Bartholomew. 
Bceckia tenuifolia. 
Prince Albert born, 1819. 
Beatonia atrata. 
Billardiera mutabilis. 
13 Sunday after Trinity. 
Billardiera scandens. 
30.180—29.760 
30.278—29.932 
30.300—30.270 
30.298—30.246 
30.261—30.202 
30.161—30.045 
30.014—29.955 
85—54 
82— 46 
83— 46 
81— 44 
77—52 
70—50 
82— 45 
E. 
S.W. 
w. 
S.W. 
N.E. 
n.e. 
E. 
1 af 5 
3 5 
4 5 
6 5 
7 5 
9 5 
11 5 
4 af 7 
1 7 
VI. 
57 6 
55 6 
53 6 
51 6 
rises. 
20 7 
30 7 
43 7 
56 7 
13 8 
36 8 
© 
10 
17 
18 
19 
20 
21 
2 13 
1 57 
1 40 
1 23 
1 6 
0 48 
0 30 
236 
237 
238 
239 
240 
241 
242 
Meteorology of the Week.— At Chiswick, from observations during the last thirty-one years, the average highest and lowest 
temperatures of these days are 72.0° and 49.5°, respectively. The greatest heat, 85 J , occurred on the 29tli, in 1842 ; and the lowest cold 
32°, on the 29th, in 1850. During the period 139 days were fine, and on 78 rain fell. ’ 
GARDENING OPERATIONS EOR THE WEEK. 
KITCHEN GARDEN. 
Artichokes. —When, all tlie heads are gathered, 
cut off the stems close to the ground, and remove the 
dead leaves. 
Cabbage. —Continue to plant out for Coleworts, and 
prick out the seedling plants, intended for the main 
spring crop. 
French Beans (Dwarf). —Give them an abundant 
supply of water in dry weather, to prolong their pro¬ 
ductiveness. 
Leeks. —Plant out the thinnings from the seed-bed 
in favourable weather. 
Onions. —Sow immediately, if not done, as advised 
last week. 
Pot-herbs. —Plant, when the weather is showery, 
Sage, Thyme, Mint, Balm , Winter Savory, &c., to be 
well established in the ground, the better to resist the 
severity of the winter. 
Turnips. —Sow the last crop for this season, and 
thin the former sowings. 
Vegetable Marrow. —Supply the plants with an 
abundance of water in dry weather, and cover the 
ground between the runners with short grass, to 
prevent evaporation. 
FRUIT GARDEN. 
Peaches and Nectarines. —As they now begin to 
ripen, it will be necessary to fix nets, hitched up in 
several places, so as to form open bags, to catch the 
falling fruit; for although fruit may be daily examined 
and gathered by hand, which is the best method, 
nevertheless it will sometimes fall, and, if means are 
not used to catch it, will be bruised and spoiled. 
Strawberries. —Proceed with despatch in making 
fresh plantations, as the produce nextseason willdepend 
in a great measure upon early planting at this season. 
Whether they will bear well next year, or whether 
they will not arrive at their bearing state until the 
year after, will also depend upon two or three weeks 
planting before or after the end of this month. Run¬ 
ners of the early planting will have favourable time to 
establish themselves, and to mature their buds ; which 
will but rarely, or under some very favourable combi¬ 
nation of circumstances, happen to the latter. 
FLOWER GARDEN. 
Auriculas. —Prick out seedlings into store pots 
or pans. Stir the surface of the soil around the old 
plants. 
Bedding-out Stock. —Pot off rooted cuttings into 
small pots, to be placed in a pit, or frame, to be kept 
l close and shaded until they make fresh roots, when 
i they should be placed in an open airy situation, on 
j coal-ashes, to prevent the ingress of worms, and to 
harden them before they are housed for the winter. 
Continue to put in cuttings. 
Biennials andPERENNiALS, —Plant,—at the earliest 
opportunity, in showery weather; or, if dry weather 
sets in, let them be watered for a few days after 
planting, — Canterbury Bells, Siveet Williams, Fox¬ 
gloves, Antirrhinums, Wall/lowers, Pinlcs, Carnations, 
seedling HollyhocTcs, and all such things, that they 
may be well established in the ground before winter. 
Carnations and Picotees.— Plant out the layers 
as soon as rooted ; if potted, they delight in three- 
fourths sandy loam and one-fourth leaf mould, with a 
slight sprinkling of road sand. 
Dahlias. — Remove all damaged and imperfect 
flowers. Constant attention to be given to staking 
and tying, to save them from the destructive effects <ff 
boisterous winds. Young shoots of any choice sorts 
will strike root freely in a brisk bottom heat. 
Intermediate Stocks.— Pot them as soon as they 
are fit to handle,—one in a small-sized pot, in turfy 
loam. To be watered and occasionally sprinkled over 
head, and shaded for a few days, until they take fresh 
roothold, when they may be treated as hardy plants, 
and will require but slight protection in the most 
severe portion of the winter. 
Pansies. —Cuttings strike freely now. Plant out 
seedlings into beds of rich compost. 
Pinks. —Stir the surface of the soil,—which some¬ 
times becomes hardened by heat at this season, after a 
heavy thunder-shower,—amongst the pipings that have 
been planted out in beds. The operation, if time 
would permit, would be also of service to all young 
plants that have been planted out during the summer. 
Ranunculus Roots.— To be looked over, as the 
least damp will produce mouldiness. 
William Keane. 
CRYSTAL PALACE GARDENS. 
(Continued from page 308.) 
The design of the arched and trellis work, for j 
climbers, on the top of the Rose mount, at the Crystal 
Palace, has puzzled many of our English landscape 
gardeners. Neither Loudon, Repton, Brown, Price, 
nor any other of our great celebrities, hinted at such 
a way of exhibiting climbers. The Italian terrace is 
a common feature in our garden landscape ; but the 
Italian manner of training the Vine on open trellis- i 
work, over-head, is new to most English gardens : the 
plan is only to be seen in a few of our best gardens, 
and, where it is, the cottage system of Italy is adopted, 
as far as I have seen or heard of. At the Crystal 
Palace, however, they have carried the idea as far as 
it is practicable, and puzzled the natives; but, now 
that the thing is beginning to tell its own tale, we can 
very well understand how it will look when it is com¬ 
pletely finished, two or three years hence. 
When the thing is complete, those twelve grey, sheet- 
iron arches, which few of us approve of as seen either in 
the distance or in the sky-line, will be entirely and for 
ever hidden from our view; they will be clothed with 
No. 517. Vol. XX. 
