GARDENER’ CLEENDAR.

Dunstan Times, Issue 584, 27 June 1873, Page 3

GARDENER’ CLEENDAR.

-jui.y. Kitchen Garden.—Sea kale : cover tho strongest roots with boxes or barrels, and place some fermenting stable-dung round each, to start their growth Peas aud broad beans : put in another sowing for succession. When the ground is dry and friable, plant early potatoes. The hardest frosts occur here in July, and it will be advisable to defer tho sowing of small seeds till the end of the mouth. When the ground has been previously dug, any of toe cabbage tiibe may be"planted Manure rhubarb, and make fresh plantings. Stir tho surface amongst onions or other young crops, to prevent tho frost from heaving up the soil. Fruit Garden.—Take advantage of dry weather to transplant fruit trees and bushes, and proceed with the pruning. This operation is frequently overdonej by "wt tempting to bring bushes which Lave been neglec ted at once into tbe operator’s favorite shape. It will be found safe practice to prune moderately, removing suckers from life roots, and leaving the centre of tbe 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 the dressing of old beds, but avoid the barbarous practice of cutting off the leaves. Plant hedgerows : put in thorn quicks six inches apart. Flower garden : See that tho ground in this department is all dug up roughly to the action of the weather, as a few frosty nights will hare a beneficial effect, especially on clay soils and recently 'broken up ground. Flower roots may now be divided and planted. Bulbs may be set where it has been omitted to do so. See that the planting and pruning of roses be attended to early, and that they have a good dressing of rich half-decomposed manure. Hardy annual and perennial seeds may now bo sown.