GLENNY'S GOLDEN RULES FOR GARDENERS.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 9, 3 September 1874, Page 3

GLENNY'S GOLDEN RULES FOR GARDENERS.

Never work with bad tools. The difference between the work done in a month would buy a set of new ones. Have a place for every tool, and never have one out of its place $ or, to go further, " a place for everything, and everything in its place." Never waste animal or Vegetable refuse. Tbe very soapsuds from the laundry are rich manure. Whenever you have the opportunity, dig in the waste of the vegetable yon are going to plant or sow, whether immediately or after the next crop. Never grow a bad varie.y of anything if you can help it. It takes the same room, and wants the same attention as a good one. Study economy in the means you use to grow anything. It is impossible to be too careful In this matter. Let the draining of the ground be your fi:*st care. It is impossiole to sue • ceed to fny extent with vegetables or flowers where the water is stagnant in the soil. Cover all seeds with at least their own thickness of soil; but as some of | itgeis washed off }-ou must allow for it Gather fruit in dry weather and wiih the sun shining, and place them as carefully in a basket as if they were gloss. The smallest bruise commences a decay. Never grow the same crop, or crons of the same family twice on the sune spot-, without an intervening crop of a different nature. Never transplant I shrubs or trees in a growing slate. However carefully k may be done, the j check is dangerous, if not fatal ! Keep your plants clean , dust and dirt on leaves make theplant unhealthy, and will in time kill it. Never allow the surface of the soil in a pot or on rhe ground io be long without stirring, unless it be naturally open, as is the case with pot earth. Never grow a plant too fast ; it is no credit to you, because anybody can do it, and it spoils the plant to a certainty.

Mow lawns before the dew is off the grass, unless you have a machine, which cuts it best when dry. Rapid growth makes a mild flower, slow growth a strong one. Therefore grow vegetables quick, and fruit moderately. The exceptions are only where size is valued higher than flavor. Temper stable dung by repeated shaking-s out, watering if too dry, and turnings over before you use it for hot beds or linings. If this be not done it will burn. Carefully preserve the fallen leaves of trees, and procure as many as you can ; when rotted inco mould tbe produce is invaluable. Keep sour seeds, bulbs, tubers, <fee , in a place where neither heat, nor frost, nor damp can reach them, for either of these would destroy many. Hoe the surface of the ground all over once a fortnight, upon the same principle that servants sweep the rooms. Let not the moisture that runs from the dung heap be wasted ; it is too good for the cultivated part of the ground to be lost to it. Never allow weeds to bloom; it is the worst proof of thoughtlessness. One day devoted this year will save a month's application next. Never trample on the gronud in wet weather or while tbe ground is swampy; rather delay the work. Even pi a v ting out things is better as the ground dries a little.