GARDEN CALENDAR FOR FEBRUARY.

Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 186, 1 February 1878, Page 7

GARDEN CALENDAR FOR FEBRUARY.

Kitchen Garden. — The operations recommended during Inst month are suitable for the early part of this month, and all vegetables for winter and springuse ought to be sown or planted out at onee — such as earl} 7 and late cabbages, savoys, curled greens, cauliflowers, turnips, French beans, radish, endive, and lettuce. Attend to the earthing up of cabbages, &c. Plant out celery, and draw earth to those already planted that have begun to grow up. Care must be taken, however, and not cover

tbeir hearts. See that carrots, parsnips, beet root, and turnips are not left too thick. All onions that bave become yellow in the leaves should be lifted and dried, turning tbem occasionally, so as to dry equally. Leeks may still be transplanted into rich soil, but they will not get any size if neglected longer. Earth up, if in drills, those already planted. Take up early potatoes and early carrots. Sow onions for early spring use.

Fruit Department.-- Remove all superfluous breast-wood from wall and espalier trees ; nail in and tie all useful shoots. Standards, especially apple trees, have to be looked over, and freed from vermin. Bud fruit trees of all sorts without delay. Gather fruits as

they ripen. Remove old canes from raspberry bushes. Stir up the soil around the stems of the various sorts of fruit trees, and support those that are heavily loaded.

Flower Department. — Bndroses: insert cuttings of tea-scented, Noisette, China, Bourbon, and hybrid perpetuals, and clean those that are dirty with green-fly. All cuttings, whatever their length may be, should be put threefourths, of their length in the ground, and the top one-fourth above the ground, firming well, and shading if necessary. Stake dahlias, hollyhocks, poppies, and sweet-williams, feeding freely with liquid manure. Propagate by cuttings all bedding plants, such as geraniums, calceolarias, Fuchsias, ver-

benas, Fleliotropes, Petunias, Pansies, Veronicas, Pentstemons, Hollyhocks, Ageratums, Cepheas, and Antirrhinums. Dress and trim hedges ; overhaul flower borders, as many of the perennials will have done flowering. These should be cut down, and the blanks filled up with pot plants or other suitable material. .