FARM AND GARDEN CALENDAR FOR APRIL.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 164, 1 April 1874, Page 3

FARM AND GARDEN CALENDAR FOR APRIL.

(FUOM “ USED AND BBSrr’s AIMANAC.’’) Blowru Gauoen.— Remove annuals, and out down all plants past dowering. Collect seed*. Attend cWly to all matters of routine. Prepare boas for luhpa* ranu no ului oa, and anemones, Oonllnuo to propigato pannes, double wallflowers, &o. Ihe early layers of pinks and carnations will now be rooted, and should bo detached from the pa retd plants, when they may bo kept in pota or ho ided out at once. In stiff clayey soils the addition of a little soil of quite an opposite character is of much advantage. Propagate verbenas, fusel lias, pelargoniums, heliotropes, petunias, &e. KiTciikn akd Fatrix GaHdun,—-Prepare soils and comports, destroy all rubbish by fermenting and rotting rather t han burning 5 dig and trench ground. Where bits of waste ground cannot bo occupied with crops cither turn it up roughly for tlio ameliorating influence of the weather, or sow rape, vetches, oats, or maize, to be dug in. Earth up celery, leeks, and kumoras where necessary. Make occasional sowings of salad herbs. Take up beet and store in a dry, airy place. Plant out cauliflowers, celery whore required, and cabbages largely in good coil—give plenty of room. Thin spinach. Pick «ut a few strong turnips and plant them a foot apart ; they will yield a largo supply v B P r£,u *' B fbe early spring. Apples and pears should bo gathered as they ripen and stored in a d r jvairy place, taking caro not to lay thorn too thick. Figs should bo closely looked after, especially if the weather is at all bright. Peaches, nectarines, and plums, except in a few rare instances, will all have been gathered. Grapes will be maturing freely ; the old black Hamburg and similar kinds may be kept two or throe weeks after tney are out from the vine if the bunches are cut with a few inches of the wood and bung in a dry, airy place. b abm.~ bo wing grass seeds now becomes general, and should bo completed during the month if possible, if the pasture is intended for sheep, rape, turnips, and Italian rye grass may bo mixed with the clover and perennial rye grass. On very dry land oats may bo sown with grass for cattle to feed off during the winter, or may bo sown separately whore the land is to bo ploughed again in the Spring, Potatoes should be all stored and well covered. If rams have boon put to the ewes early in March they may bo taken away at the end of April, six or seven weeks being long enough in general, although in some casus it may be necessary to let them remain longer, or even to put them to tresh rams after an interval of a few days. *