Calendar for the Garden and farm.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 363, 2 April 1866, Page 2

Calendar for the Garden and farm.

APEIL. "All the pride Of the sweet garden fades; where is The lupin, aster, balsam, or carnation, Where the gay jasmine, odorbus syrings. Graceful laburnum, or blooming arbutus.’’ GARDEN. This is the third month of autumn, and la frequently distinguished by days of bright sunshine and,-nights of rain or heavy dew. Keep moving the surface among all growing crops. Make final sowings of all the cabbage tribe for spring planting; sow' radish, mustard, and cress, also spinach, Sangatcr’s white beet, New Zealand spinach. Sow peas, early sorts, earls frame, or Saugatter’s So. 1, beans, parsnips, carrots, while stone-and early Dutch turnips. Sow onions for planting out in spring. Hunt out eschalots, they are milder than onions, and,used in soups, made dishes, or as salding with endive or lettuce, and take but little room aftd are easy of cultivation;• transplant cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, endive and white beet, Iloe, earth, and tie up lettuce for blanching; earth up celery taking care that the earth'does hot fall into the heart of the plant. Plant horseradish. - Where the strawberry' beds were not finished last month the sooner, it is now done the batter, following the directions given last month. Lift and store early seed potatoes. AH vacant ground dig and manure, laying it up rough or in ridges, ready Sbr digging tor next crop. Early budded fruit trees may now.-.have -3th e ties loosened; and whore gooseberry, currant-and raspberry have shed their leaves conimfeiice pruning. Bruit trees of all kinds, where the leaves are shed-' may be re-' moved. All docks, weeds, primings, Ac., should be collected and burned, placing over them a layer of earth, that they may ho. there charred thatt'burned, also all bouts that can bo obtained may be placed in the heap. ■ BARM, - This should he a busy mopth with the farmer. Sowing oats lor green crop, also tares, lilting potatoes, carrots, mangold wurtzel, and storing for future use. At the latter end of the it'onth commence wheat sowijig; if the land is ready. Burning,should now bo finished if possible; in burning off land, clear a space of a few feet from all fences.' Book wellto roads, ditches, and. fences before the rainy season comes on, T *■ ! .. *