FARM AND GARDEN CALENDAR.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume I, Issue 61, 2 April 1873, Page 3

FARM AND GARDEN CALENDAR.

A krii,. (fbom beed asd brett's almanac) Flowbb Gabden.—Remove annuals, and cut down all plants past flowering. Collect seeds. Attend closely to all matters of routine. Prepare beds for tulips, ranunculuses, and anemones. Continue to propagate pangies, double wallflowers, &c. The early layers of pinks and carnations will now be rooted, and should be detached from the parent plants, when they may be kept in pots or bedded out at once. A good sand* iuant, without manure, suits these plants best. Propagate verbenas, fusehiaa, pelargoniums, heliotropes, petunia-, &c. KiTCKBW and FauiT Gabdejt—Prepare soils and composts, destroy all rubbish, dig and trench ground. Where bits of waste ground cannot be occupied with crop* sow rape, vetches, o»ta, or no a! ze to be dug in ; they will prevent the growth of weeds, and give the earden a better look and improve the ground. Earth up celery, leeks, and kumeras where necessary. Make occasional sowings of salad horbs. Take up beet and store in a dry, airy place. Plant out cauliflowers, celery where required, and cabbages largely, in good soil —give plenty of room. Thin spinach Pick out a tew strong turnips and plant them a foot apart ; they will y,eld a large supply of sprouts in the early spring. Apples and pears should be gathered as they ripen and stored in a dry, airv place taking care not to lay them too thick. Figs should be closely looked after, especially if the weather is at all bright. Peaches, nectarines, and plums, except in a few rare instances, will all have eU & &fc^ er ? d ; T Gra P 6« will be maturing fieely ; the old black Hamburg and similar Kinds may be feept two or three weeks after they are cut from vine if the bunches are cut with a few inches of the wood, and hung in a diy, any place. Fabm.—Sowing grass seeds now becomes general, ana should be completed during the month if possible. If the pasture is intended for

sheep, sow rape, turnips, and perennial lyegraas. IPyi?l Py i? ] ats ma * be with grass far cattle to feed luring the winter, or may bo sown sepa.af. ,^ ; here the land is to be ploughed again in tne Po.-Jooa should be all stored and well coverw f If rams hare bren put to the ewt? - rSr} .T in March they may be taken away at the end of Ap.,!, six or seven weeks being long enough -a genera’, although in some cries it may bo necessary to let them remain longer, or even to put them t > fesh rami efter en inis,ral of a few days.