GARDENERS CALENDAR.

Dunstan Times, Issue 555, 6 December 1872, Page 2

GARDENERS CALENDAR.

o--DECEMBER. Kitchen Garden.—This is a month in the garden ; vegetables are growing vigorously, root crops require thinning, peas and beaus staking, and above all, -weeding; and hoeing has to he attended to. Peas, sow ; aLo, French beans and runners, turnip, early horn carrot, lettuce and radish. Early vavietiosof the potataemay still be planted. A slight top-dressing of stable manure mixed with sand will benefit onion and leek hels, if the growth bo at all backward ;. and in the event of dry weather, water with weak guano or manure water. Celery will be improved by similar trcatnrnt. Fruit Garden.—Trained trees now require tying or n filing. .Slight fr •sts,- which oc-. casiunally .occur this, mouth, are apt to blister the leaves of peach and neclaiine trees. A temporary topping of scrub, to project a foot a foot over the top of the wall or t nee on .which they aro-traiaed, will protect them. 'Pinch tue tops off the strongest growing shoots of young fruit trees, to eq alisa the growth andjin luce a i Imsiiy habit. Remove all suckers as they make their appearance -below graft* lately put on, and pinch the tops off their main shoots when they have pushed two or tlir-,e inches. This will encourage the grow hof lateral shoots, and in s mo measure prevent the tress'from being injured by the wind. Flower'Garden.—See that Dahlias and Hollyhocks am well secured to stakes, and encourage growth by frequent waterings with liquid,manure. Lillies, Phloxes, &c., will require stakes, and Verbenas, Petime.rs and other' trailing plants, pegging down. Stake Sweet-Peas,-Ca'ary Creeper, and Convolvus Major. See that annuals are not too thick, a-d let all tinning be done whilst the plants are young. Young Fuchsias now making rapid growth sh mid bo encouraged by slnftiiu int. largersiz-id pots, and watering twice a week with weak guuno-water. IdDWAR!) HUM. son of the u Rev Tins. Maxwell Hunt, late of Ouston Vicarage, Aylsham, in the county of Norfolk; Alias, James Wood. INFORMATION respecting the DEATH of the above-named geutleman is requh ed. Ho went out to Australia,in the year 1857, and for two or three years, was engaged in a situation ; s shepherd. In July, 18GG, being then in bad health, he was living at 'Wentworth junction, ■ -tuning River, under j lie care of M r. Cottier, a me deal Practitioner at that township. ’ Ho was last heard of in the January following (1861) when he was employed .as-shep-herd by Mr Janies bhadbolt, of Long Gully, neap Sandhurst, Victoria, under the inline of James Wood. Any Person wild can give thcroqnirod information will bo REWARDED. Application should be made to Messrs E. &. F.' Bannister and Fache. tiolicitors, 13 John Snoot, Bedford Row, London, England.-