Gardener's Calendar.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 564, 30 March 1868, Page 2

Gardener's Calendar.

2(T may be well to remind our readers that a & latitude of eight or ten days or even more should be allowed in reference to the directions Sven in this Calendar. In a climate like that of awke’s Bay, not subject to extremes of temperature, vegetable growth varies to a very great extent in different seasons; maturity fakes place early if the season has has been dry ; if wet, it is prolonged until a very late period of the year. These circumstances, and others that will naturally suggest themselves to the minds of our readers, should always be taken into consideration in connection with the directions given in the Calendar. FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL. All the pride Of the sweet garden fades; where is The lupin, aster, balsam, or carnation? Where the gay jasmine, odorous syringa Graceful laburnum, or blooming arbutus? This is the third month of autumn, and is 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, white beet, New Zealand spinach. Sow pens, early sorts, early frame,- or Sangster’s No. 1, beans, parsnips, carrots, white stone and early Dutch turnips. Sow onions for planting out in snring. Plant out eschalots—they are milder than onions, and used in soups, made dishes, or as sakdin" with endive or lettuce, and take but little room and are easy of cultivation; transplant cabbage, brocoli, [cauliflower, lettuce, (endive and white beet. Hoe, earth, and tic up lettuce for blanching; earth up celery taking care that the earth does not lau imo me heart of the plant. "Where the strawberry beds were not finished last month the sooner now done the better, following the directions given last month. Lift and store early seed potatoes. All vacant ground dig and manure, laying it up rough or in ridges, ready for digging for next cron. Early budded fruit trees may now 7 have the tics loosened; and where the gooseberry, currant, and raspberry have shed their leaves commence pruning. Fruit frees of all kinds, where the leaves are Sued may be removed. All docks, w mis, primings, &c., should be csllected and burned, nlncing over them a layer of earth that they may be more charred than burned, also all bones (hat can be obtained may be placed in the heap.