THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, September 4, 1860, 337 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
Day 
of 
M’nth 
Day 
of 
Week. 
SEPTEMBER 4—10, 1860. 
Weather 
Barometer. 
NEAR LOND 
Tliermom. 
on in 18 
Wind. 
59. 
Rain in 
IncheB. 
Sun 
Rises. 
Sun 
Sets. 
Moon 
Rises 
and Sets 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 
afterSun 
Day of 
Year. 
4 
To 
Sonchus canadensis. 
29.095-20.921 
71—41 
N.W. 
_ 
19 af 5 
38 af 6 
27 
7 
19 
1 
14 
248 
5 
W 
Sonchus arvensis. 
30.130—29.994 
70-48 
E. 
— 
21 
5 
36 6 
47 
7 
20 
1 
34 
249 
6 
Tn 
Lactuca saligna. 
29.858—29.697 
65—45 
S.W. 
•30 
23 
5 
34 G 
14 
8 
21 
1 
54 
250 
7 
F 
Lactuca sylvatica. 
29.878—29.839 
67-53 
S.W. 
24 
S 
32 G 
49 
8 
22 
2 
14 
251 
8 
s 
Lactuca villosa. 
29.975—29.922 
71—57 
S.W. 
0-1 
26 
a 
29 6 
39 
9 
c 
2 
34 
252 
9 
Son 
14 Sunday after Trinity. 
29.87G—29.805 
69-42 
S.W. 
— 
27 
s 
27 6 
42 
10 
24 
2 
55 
253 
10 
M 
Serratula alpina. 
30.181-30.054 
69-33 
w. 
— 
29 
s 
25 6 
0 
12 
25 
3 
15 
254 
Meteorology of the Week.— At Chiswick, from observations during the last thirty-four years, the average highest and lowest 
temperatures of these days are G9.5° and 45.8° respectively. The greatest heat, 83°, occurred on the'7th, in 184G ; and the lowest cold 30° 
on the 6th, in 1830. During the period 128 days were fine, and on 103 rain fell. 
WORK FOR THE WEEK. 
KITCHEN GARDEN. 
The long-continued wet weather has favoured the 
growth of weeds, and rendered their destruction a matter 
of difficulty. The best way to get rid of them, when 
hoeing and raking are not practicable, is to dig them 
down, especially the young generation. As the rapid 
spread and extensive virulence of the Potato disease will 
make other vegetables more valuable, no time should be 
lost in filling up every available foot of ground with 
Winter Greens, Coleworts, and other such edible garden 
stuff. Broccoli, where there has not been sufficient 
planted, large plants may yet be put out with success ; 
to be laid in with the spade in a slanting direction. Earth 
up the advancing crops. Carcloons, earth up, for blanch¬ 
ing in favourable weather. Cabbage, prick out the seed¬ 
ling plants intended to stand the winter; to be pricked 
out four or five inches apart in nursery-beds. Celery, 
when earthing up be careful to prevent any portion of the 
earth from falling into the heart of the plant, the small 
leaves and suckers being previously removed, and each 
plant to be tied up loosely with matting. Endive, con¬ 
tinue to blanch and plant out from successional sowings. 
Lettuce, another sowing of the various sorts may be made : 
it is always better to have a superfluity in the spring 
than otherwise. Mushroom-beds may now be made either 
in sheds or in the open ground. Parsley, thin the sum¬ 
mer sowing while in a young state ; the plants will then 
gain strength to stand the winter. A portion of the 
spring sowing should be cut down. Tomatoes, as they 
are likely to be very late this season it is advisable to 
prevent the plants from making further growth by con¬ 
stant stopping, and to remove any leaves that may be 
shading the fruit. 
flower garden. 
Where worms are very troublesome on lawns, water 
with clear lime water of full strength, this will bring them 
to the surface, where they can be easily swept together 
and gathered up. Wistaria sinensis, Jasmines, Virginian 
Creepers, China Roses, Heartsease, tree Violets, &c., to 
be propagated by cuttings. Put in cuttings of various 
evergreens. 
FRUIT GARDEN. 
Particular attention to be given to the gathering of the 
earliest varieties of Pears and Apples. As a general 
rule, Pears may be considered fit when the stalk parts 
from the branch by merely raising the fruit to a hori¬ 
zontal position without pulling. The particular tinge 
of colour that Peaches and Nectai’ines acquire on the 
approach of ripeness should be observed, and in all cases 
of doubt the hand to be applied so as to grasp the fruit 
with gentle and equal pressure on five points of contact. 
STOVE. 
As the nights are now getting long and ^cold, it is 
advisable to put on a little fire heat, more for the purpose 
of assisting to ripen the succulent wood that has been 
made during the late dark summer than to promote 
No. 623.— Vol. XXIV. No. 23. 
growth. Every ray of light to be admitted freely with 
an abundance of air when the temperature exceeds 80°. 
See that every plant is free from insects, and keep the 
foliage of Ixoras and other such plants clean by wash¬ 
ing them with a sponge and soapy water when necessary. 
GREENHOUSE AND CONSERVATORY. 
In a season such as we have lately experienced when, 
as Punch remarked, the sun has been playing hide- 
and-seek for the last three months, it is not to be expected 
that plants would be as fully matured as in ordinary 
seasons. All that we can now do under such circum¬ 
stances is to expose them to all the light at our command 
and in situations where the lights can be entirely re¬ 
moved in every interval of fine weather. Azaleas to be 
secured in a dry house, to assist in setting their bloom. 
Tropseolums to be started, and no time to be lost in pro¬ 
curing and potting such Hyacinths, Tulips, and other 
such bulbs as may be required for forcing. Heliotropes, 
Verbenas, Scarlet Geraniums, and Roses required for 
decorative purposes to be progressively shifted, stopped, 
and trained, as they will be found useful until a late 
period of the year. Unless the weather becomes dry. 
Orange trees and other such hardwooded greenhouse 
plants, if at all large, will soon require housing, as the 
heavy rains have saturated them to excess, and a low 
i night temperature will turn the foliage to a sickly yellow, 
which frequently remains on the plant through the winter. 
Before removing them to their winter quarters any that 
may require additional root-room to be shifted into fresh 
pots or tubs. Continue shifting Cinerarias, Chinese 
Primroses, Calceolarias, Humeas, and other such seed¬ 
ling plants into larger pots as they may require them. 
FITS AND FRAMES. 
Continue to pot off such cuttings as are rooted, place 
them in a close pit or frame for a few days until they 
have made fresh roots, when they should be removed to 
a sheltered place to harden. The Cucumbers in frames 
which it is intended to keep in bearing should be covered 
up when the nights are cold; the beds should also be 
newly lined. W. Keane. 
SIR JOSEPH PAXTON’S GARDEN IN 1860. 
Having a pot-luck invitation to call in and see the 
honourable member for Coventry when I am in the way, 
and having also a great aversion to people bothering 
other people on the free-and-easy mood, I never see Sir 
Joseph unless I am downright obliged, and then only to 
seek a leaf out of his book on some such occasion as 
the present, when I am collecting the statistics of the 
falls and failings in the flower gardens, from the bad state 
of the weather exclusively—a subject, as I said before, 
which was suggested to me at a chance meeting by Sir 
William Hooker—for the comfort and consolation of the 
great mass of the people, who, when they thus learn that 
they are all in the same boat, will put the saddle on the 
right horse, give a last look to the boat, and mount for 
the pleasure of the thing. 
