TIIE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, August 28, 1860. 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
323 
Day 
Day 
of 
Wkatukk 
near London in 1839. 
Moon 
ol 
AUG. 21—SEPT. 3, I860. 
Rain in 
Inches. 
Sun 
Sun 
Rises 
Moon's 
Clock 
Day of 
I’nth 
Week. 
Barometer. 
Thermom. 
Wind. 
Rises. 
Sets 
and Sets 
Age. 
bef. Sun. 
Year. 
28 
To 
Stachvs palustris. 
Scutcilaria galericulata. 
29.918—29.771 
72-42 
.s.w. 
.01 
8 af 
3 
54 af 6 
38 
1 
12 
0 
58 
241 
29 
W 
29.860—29.517 
72-45 
s.w. 
.16 
10 
5 
52 
6 
52 
13 
0 
40 
212 
30 
Th 
Althaea officinalis. 
29.553—29.549 
63-43 
s.w. 
.20 
11 
3 
50 
6 
4 
4 
14 
0 
22 
31 
F 
Pisum maritimum. 
29.608—29.516 
62-49 
s.w. 
— 
13 
5 
47 
6 
rises 
© 
0 
3 
244 
1 
S 
Fumaria capreolata. 
29.618—29.573 
65—42 
s.w. 
— 
15 
5 
45 
6 
43 
6 
16 
0 
10 
245 
0. 
SUK 
13 Sunday after Trinity. 
29.790—29.575 
65—54 
s.w. 
.18 
16 
0 
43 
6 
56 
<; 
17 
0 
35 
240 
3 
M 
Trifolium fragiferum. 
29.908-29.806 
70—39 
N.W. 
IS 
5 
41 
6 
10 
7 
18 
0 
54 
247 
Meteorology op the Week.— At Chiswick, from observations during the last thirty-four years, the average highest and lowest 
temperatures of these (lavs are 71.2° and 48.3° respectively. The greatest heat, 83°, occurred on the 1st, in 1843 ; and the lowest cold, 32°, 
on the 29th, in 1850. During the period 144 days were fine, and on 87 rain fell. 
WORK FOR THE WEEK. 
KITCHEN GARDEN. 
Artichokes, cut down the flower-stalks, and remove the 
dead leaves from the old plantations. Cabbages, con¬ 
tinue to plant out for Coleworts at every favourable 
opportunity. Prick out the young plants intended for 
the main spring crop. Celery, earth up, previously re¬ 
moving all suckers. Dwarf Kidney Beans, continue to 
gather them closely, to prolong their productiveness. 
Leeks, plant out the thinnings of the seed-bed. Onions, to 
he taken up, dried, and housed. Beas, remove them if 
mildewed immediately they are done with. Savoys, draw 
earth to their stems, and to all other such crops that 
require it. Every spare piece of ground should now be 
planted with late Coleworts. and all other such crops, to 
compensate in some measure for the loss of the Potato 
crop, that is by all accounts so generally likely to occur. 
Shallots, to be taken up, and housed in a dry, warm 
room. Turnips, sow the last crop for the season. 
FLOWER GARDEN. 
Repot Auriculas in a compost of leaf mould and loam. 
Continue to put out Pink pipings. Plant out seedling 
Pansies; cuttings put in now will strike freely. The 
layers of Carnations and Picotees when rooted to be 
planted out. If intended for pot culture, when potted 
to be gently watered, and when dry to be placed on a 
bottom of coal ashes, and kept close in a frame for a few 
days, and then gradually but ultimately to be exposed to 
the air as much as possible, being careful not to allow 
them to get drenched or soddened with wet. The Moss 
and Provence Roses intended for forcing, if plunged in 
the ground to be turned round to break the roots at the 
bottom of the pots, and every gross sucker shoot to be 
cut away. Continue to fill up blanks, to stake and tie 
up, to mow, clean and roll as usual. 
FRUIT GARDEN. 
When Peaches and Nectarines begin to ripen it is 
advisable to fix nets (Haytkorn’s is excellent for the pur¬ 
pose) or mats to catch the fruit. The fruit is at all times 
best gathered by the hand, but even with the strictest 
attention some will fall, and if no means are used to catch 
them they will be bruised and spoiled. The net to hang so 
loose as to form an open bag with a little hay, moss, and 
any other soft material at the bottom. As soon as the 
fruit has been gathered a portion of the shoots that have 
borne fruit may be cut out to allow more space for the 
shoots of the present year’s growth to ripen the wood 
for a crop next year. Cut out, if not already done, the 
suckers from Raspberries, leaving only from four to six, 
according to the strength of the stool, for hearing next 
year. Plant runners of the Hautbois Strawberry about 
six or eight inches apart in beds. 
STOVE. 
Continue to follow out the principle of ripening growths 
for the winter, and to increase the amount of air at every 
favourable opportunity, and to gradually decrease the 
amount of atmospheric moisture. 
No. 622.— Vol. XXIV. No. 22. 
GREENHOUSE AND CONSERVATORY. 
Where Camellias, Chinese Azaleas, and the Indian 
hybrid Rhododendrons were not potted in the spring and 
require shifting, the present is a favourable time for that 
operation, as the young wood is now getting matured, 
and the flower-buds perceptible. They delight in sandy 
peat, with a portion of loam for the Camellias, and good 
drainage for all. Sow in pots a few of the more showy 
annuals—such as Collinsias, Clarkias, Leptosiphcns, Ne- 
mophilas, &c., to he kept in frames during the winter. 
They will be useful to enliven the shelves of the green¬ 
house or the flower-beds and borders in early spring. 
Pelargoniums to have their wood well ripened by ex¬ 
posure to sun and air, by which their strength will be 
J husbanded and their constitution improved. If Grapes 
! are to be ripened this season in a greenhouse they must 
have plenty of warmth, a dry atmosphere, and a free 
circulation of air day and night. As to the application 
of fire heat, whether it he January or September, it is 
advisable if the house is too cold or too damp to apply it 
to bring them to perfection. 
FITS AND FRAMES. 
Sow Mignonette in pots, to he kept in a pit or frame 
until they are thinned, and when they get stocky to be 
removed to the shelves of a greenhouse. Late Melons 
will require every attention both in regard to atmo¬ 
spheric warmth and bottom heat; to be sprinkled over 
head twice or thrice a-week about eight o’clock in the 
morning to keep down insects and the leaves in a healthy 
condition. Lose not a day in putting in an abundance 
of cuttings for next season. W. Keane. 
CRYSTAL PALACE GARDENS IN 1860. 
As the English language comprehends but three degrees 
of comparison, while the Gaelic includes nearly ii not 
altogether twice as many, I should be fair in my estimate 
of the effects of this exceptional season on our flower¬ 
gardening if I only referred to the three best examples of 
the craft within my home circuit; although in the spirit 
of my grandmother and Os3ian, I might covet the full 
cardinal number, and give the comparison full sevenfold. 
But the cardinal points for the present must be Hampton 
Cou t, Kew, and the Crystal Palace, or the same reversed. 
T.ie planting of the beds at Sydenham was detailed, or 
given in detail, soon after it had been accomplished ; but 
that detail will not quite tally with present appearances 
—owing, firstly, to some failures which had to he made 
good, and, secondly, to my want of vision on the lee side 
of the Rose Mount; where I, innocently enough, mistook 
Perilla Nankinensis for a very different thing indeed, 
and where I said the very different thing was in “ con¬ 
centric rings” with Flower of the Day Geranium. Just 
look, in your mind, and see if you can make it out now 
that it is pointed at, what a man like me could mistake 
for a Perilla. Of course, I shall say it was a lucky 
mistake on two grounds:—the first, that they may not 
have the laugh against me for making such a blunder; 
