GARDENERS CALENDAR.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 56, 29 August 1844, Page 4

GARDENERS CALENDAR.

(Fron Punch.') January. —Set your boys to thrash grain ; and if you find them bad in grain thrash the boys also. Pull out your plough to be ready for Plough Monday. Look to the horns of your cows, to take care they don’t get“ crumpled.” February,— Oats may be now sown; and if they are wild, the sooner the better. Dress your hedges by hanging shirts and other wearing apparel to dry upon them. March. —Get your carrots forward, and try Rowland’s Macassar if the crop looks unpromising. Plant your potatoes with salt, which gives them a relish ; and dress with bits of woollen cloth or shreds of old coats, which will improve the potato’s jacket. Now, sow your P’s ; keep your U’s warm; hive your B’s ; shoot young J’s ; feed your N’s; look after your pota toes’ I’s ; and then take yonr E’s. April. —Cease folding your turnips; but don’t neglect washing them when you intend using them, and be sure to mangle your wurzel. Roll over grass land ; but wear an old coat when you do roll over it. May. —The dairy now requires constant attention, but take care not to put your butter on your bacon. Keep your eggs out of the why of your grandmother. June,— -Have your shears ready for your sheep, but don’t resort to scissors, except from sheer necessity. Look to your B’s, and mind your P’s and Q’s. Resort to spade husbandry, and don’t consider it infra dig . The general use of iron hurdles for cattle will in all probability lead to the adoption of steel pens for sheep. July. —lf you have not much money you should not think of going to the seaside ; but if you have none at all you may go to Boulonge, or to Bath, which place is frequently recommended. If it rain on St. Swithin’s Day you may reckon the weather will be pretty much the same for a month after that it was before, but generally fair and dry. Maxim —Remember that time is money; but that it does not follow a man is a capitalist who has a quantity of it on his hands. August. Grouse shooting begins on the 12 and stars take to shooting, according to the almanacks, at the same time. If your corns shoot as well, cut it directly, as you ought to do shooting in general, unless you understand it. Aphorism — Behold, the fields are embrowned by the waving corn ! Alas, that the luminary which mellows the ear, should also have the property of tanning the cheek ! Rules for ascertaining the weather —lt is said to be a sign of rain when a dog eats grass; therefore carry a handful of grass about with you, and offer it to any dog you haps pen to meet; if he eats with appetite there will be much rain ; if he only nibbles, it will be showery. Country gentlemen who are desirous of obtaining the most “complete cut ” should purchase “a suit for £3 3s ” of any advertising slop seller. The first time they wear new clothes thev will find (if their friends be respectable) they have secured the cut complete.

September. —This is the harvest month, and so make the most of it. Cut away as fast as you can; and if your produce wont pay your rent cut away altogether. Hints. —Rooks and Crows residing in the metropolis, are requested te fly high on the first of September, lest they should be mistaken for partridges. The careful farmer also, will on that day do well to confine his poultry to their roosts.

October. —Now look to your murphies, or else you will be certain to find the speck'd tators, like those at the Toxopholite Meetings, shot in the eye. November.— lf the fly has got into your sheep, use salve, and salve them out thoroughly. Soot is strongly recommended to be ploughed into corn-fields as manure, but the Royal Society thinks it produces smut in the wheat. The ap« parently dirty task of scouring all your land drains and ditches must be undertaken this mouth. Provide dry food for your horses; the most viscious animal will stand a great deal of chaff in October. Fair days are best suited for disposing of fine weather sheep. Jays and blackbirds hung up in your hall are not to be considered birds of passage. December —Force on your fat cattle for the markets, and, if they are too

fat to move, no forcing will be of any service. Prediction. —The Cattle Show held this month will be well attended. Some valuable implements will be exhibited, the majority of them being something between coffee mills and wheelbarrows ; and one, evidently a cross of a barrel organ with a garden roller, attracts great attention. Drilling machines will be introduced into the army, to save much trouble.

Sale of Crown Lands.— A sale of crown lands took place yesterday, when the enormous sum of “ Nine Hundred Pounds, was realised, of which, one third was remission order?. The greater pors tion of the lots had been applied for several years since at an upset price of five shillings per acre, but owing to the supineness of the Survey department they have not been put up for sale until the applicants, after years, of disappointment, were unable to purchase, and most of these old applications fell into the hands of mere land jobbers.— Hobart Town Advertiser.