THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, July 31, 1860. 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
267 
Day 
of 
M’nth 
Day 
of 
Week. 
JULY 31—AUGUST 6, 13G0. 
Weather near Loni 
Barometer. Thcrmom. 
ON IN 18 
Wind. 
59. 
Rain in 
Inches. 
Sun 
Rises. 
Sun 
Sets. 
Moon 
Rises 
and Sets 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 
bef. Sun. 
Day of 
Year. 
31 
Tu 
Bupleurutn tenuissimum. 
29.703—29.591 
78-51 
S.W. 
— 
24 af 4 
48 
7 
36 2 
13 
6 
5 
213 
1 
W 
Salicornia herbacea. 
29.913—29.850 
-J 
CO 
1 
** 
W. 
— 
26 
4 
46 
7 
rises 
© 
6 
1 
214 
2 
Tn 
Serapias rubra. 
30.051—29.993 
76-42 
S.W. 
— 
27 
4 
45 
7 
58 a 7 
15 
5 
57 
215 
3 
F 
Crocus sativus. 
29.992—29.865 
77-57 
S.W. 
.16 
29 
4 
43 
7 
11 8 
16 
5 
52 
216 
4 
S 
Chironia pulchella. 
29.925—29.816 
78—43 
S.W. 
— 
30 
4 
41 
7 
23 8 
17 
5 
47 
217 
5 
Sun 
9 Sunday after Trinity. 
30.015—29.995 
78-41 
S.W. 
.01 
32 
4 
40 
7 
35 8 
18 
5 
41 
218 
6 
_ 
M 
Prince Alfred born, 1844. 
30.077—29.937 
70-57 
S.W. 
.01 
33 
4 
38 
7 
48 8 
19 
5 
34 
219 
| Meteorology of the Week.— At Chiswick, from observations during the last thirty-four years, the average highest and lowest 
J temperatures of these days are 74.8° and 51.7° respectively. The greatest heat, 92°, occurred on the 2nd, in 1856 ; and the lowest cold, 34% 
j on the 1st, in 1853. During the period 126 days were fine, and on 105 rain fell. 
WORK FOR THE WEEK. 
KITCHEN GAEDEN. 
Broccoli, finish planting them out, and also Winter 
Greens, as fast as ground can he obtained; for unless the 
autumn should prove very favourable, those planted after 
this time will not attain much size. Cabbage, the prin¬ 
cipal sowing for spring use to be made if not already 
done. Capsicums, beep them nailed to the walls or 
wooden fences. Thin, also, or stop the shoots frequently, 
as they require all the sun possible to produce good crops 
of fruit in our climate. Carrots, a few of the Horn to be 
sown to stand the winter. Cucumbers, peg down the 
shoots of the pickling sorts, to prevent them from being 
blown about by the wind. Endive, continue to plant on 
rich soil. French Beans, earth up, to protect them from 
high winds; and let all pods be kept constantly gathered, 
to prolong their productiveness. Parsley, thin out 
to six inches apart. The experience of last winter makes 
it advisable to plant a bed of it in some convenient place 
for protecting it during severe weather in winter. 
Spinach, select a piece of light, open ground, and give 
it a trenching or deep digging, with a good dressing of 
manure. The winter sorts to be sown in drills in beds, 
with wide alleys, so as to be able to gather the crop 
without treading the ground. Shallots, if left in the 
ground after the bulbs are mature they are apt to mildew 
and rot in wet weather ; therefore, they should be pulled 
as soon as the tops begin to decay, and spread out in an 
airy place to dry before storing them away. Toma¬ 
toes, to be regularly attended to, keeping the shoots thin, 
and stopping them above the cluster of fruit; for if the 
plants are allowed to ramble and grow too freely there 
will be but a poor chance in an unfavourable season like 
this of ripening a good crop. 
FLOWEE GAEDEN. 
Climbers on walls, &c., to be attended to as they ad¬ 
vance in growth, keeping the young shoots neatly laid 
in. Phloxes and other tall-growing herbaceous plants 
to be staked and tied out, without huddling the shoots 
together. All the Perpetual-blooming Roses that have 
fiowered so freely this season to be assisted by a liberal 
watering with manure water from the stable or farmyard 
tank. Plant out Pink pipings, rooted cuttings of Hearts¬ 
ease. Layer Carnations and Picotees. Transplant into 
nursery-beds the seedling plants of Wallflowers, Sweet 
Williams, Canterbury Bells, &c.; to be afterwards planted 
in the places where they are intended to flower. 
FRUIT GAEDEN. 
To keep Currants to a late period, select on a dry day 
some of the best bushes, and thin all the shoots from 
the fruit; drive a strong stake into the middle of the 
bush, and tie all the branches to it; then wrap a garden 
net around it. By such means a supply is frequently 
kept up to November. Shift Strawberries into their 
fruiting pots in a compost of good old loam, with a top 
dressing or mulching of decomposed cowdung. Take 
care that the pots are well drained. To be placed in a 
No. 618.— Yol. XXIV. No. 18. 
south aspect, and on boards or slates raised a few inches 
above the ground, to prevent the worms getting into 
them. Top or remove the rampant suckers of Rasp¬ 
berries. Continue to make new plantations of Straw¬ 
berries, selecting the strongest plants, and attending to 
them until they get established. 
STOVE. 
The Ixoras, when done blooming, to be cut in, and 
started gently, to make a fresh growth. Orchids sus¬ 
pended in baskets or blocks to be iiberally supplied with 
water, and to have frequent slight syringings overhead. 
GKEENHOTTSE AND CONSERVATORY. 
Continue to cut down the Pelargoniums done bloom¬ 
ing when the wood is ripe. Repot those plants previously 
headed down as soon as they begin to break. Pot off the 
cuttings as soon as the.roots are formed. Continue to 
pot Cinerarias when the seedlings are large enough to 
handle, or as strong suckers can be obtained, placing 
them in the close part of a cold frame until they get 
established in their pots. The pot Roses to have all the 
faded blooms cut constantly away; and those intended 
for winter blooming to be examined, and if they require 
shifting, some of the old balls should be loosened, and 
the head slightly reduced. Keep a sharp look out for 
mildew among the Heaths, particularly those kinds liable 
to it and in close situations. Keep the young plants grow¬ 
ing vigorously, and do not spare the knife where they 
are disposed to grow loosely. 
PITS AND FEAMES. 
To obtain high flavour in Melons it is necessary to keep 
up some slight amount of bottom heat and the leaves in 
a healthy state, and by accustoming them to the open 
air by free ventilation night and day in favourable 
weather during the ripening process. W. Keane. 
THE BEDDING SYSTEM CONSIDERED 
UNDER D1FEICULTIES. 
i Those who neglect the spring flowers—the flowers of 
our childhood—and trust to the bedding-out system 
| alone for the strength of their decoration will have 
found, by the experience of the dog-days of 1860, but 
more especially by the first quarter of them, that that 
strength was of less duration than the flush of the mixed 
herbaceous borders used to be, and that the rest of the 
season, fore and aft, was much less than the dropping, here 
and there, of the “ early ” and “ late ” flowers of our fore¬ 
fathers. The “ effect ” for two months, if you wish they 
may get it, can hardly make amends for an equal period of 
doubts and uncertainties as to effect being, or being not 
produced, and the certainty of a dearth for eight months 
out of the twelve, save and except what may be accom¬ 
plished by make-believes during that period. On the 
other hand, those who take, and, this spring took, the 
opportunity of filling their beds and borders to the full 
extent of our available means in spring flowers, have 
