GARDENERS’ CALENDAR.

Dunstan Times, Issue 378, 16 July 1869, Page 3

GARDENERS’ CALENDAR.

JULY. Kitchen Garden.—Seakale : cover the strongest roots with boxes or barrels, and place some furmenting stable dung round each, to start them into growth. Peas and Broad Beans : put in another sowing for succession. When ground is dry and friable, plant early potatoes. The hardest frosts occur here in July, and it will be advisable to defer the sowing of small seeds till the end of the month. When the ground has been previously dug, any of the cabbage tribe may be planted. Manure rhubarb, and make fresh plantings. Stir the surface among onions or other young crops, to prevent the frost from heaving up the soil. Fruit Garden.—Take advantage of dry weather to transplant fruit trees and bushes, end proceed with the pruning. This operation is frequently overdone by attempting to bring bushes which have been neglected at once into the operator’s favorite shape. It will be found safe practice to prune moderately, removing suckers from tho roots, and leaving the centre of the bushes rather open. Red and white currants require very close pruning. The black currant requires very little cutting, merely keeping the bushes moderately thin of wood. Prune and tie raspberry canes, leaving but four or five to each stool. Plant strawberries, and finish tho dressing of old beds ; hut avoid the barbarous practice of cutting oft' the leaves. Plant hedge-rows ; put in thorn quicks six inches apart. Flower Garden.—See that the ground in this department is all dug up roughly to the action of the weather, as a few frosty nights willhavea beneficial effect, especially on clay soils and recently broken up ground Flower roots may now be divided and bulbs may be sot where it has been omitted. See that tho planting and pruning of roses he attended to early, and that they have a good dressing r.f rich half - decomposed manure. Hardy annuals and perennial flower seeds may now be sown.