Gardener's Calendar.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 565, 2 April 1868, Page 2

Gardener's Calendar.

JIT may be well to remind our readers that a 3 latitude of eight or ten days nr even more should be allowed in reference to the directions given in this Calendar. In a climate like tint of Hawke’s Bay, not subject to extremes of temperature, vegetable growth varies to a very great extent in different seasons; maturity takes 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 he 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 Die 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 ami ercss. also spinach, white beet. New Zealand spinach. Sow peas, early sorts, early frame, or Sang.-ter's No. I, beans, (parsnips, carrots, white stone and. early Dutch turjnips. Sow onions for planting out in. spring. I Plant out eschalots—they ar- milder than onions, (and used in soups, mad• dishes, or as salading • with endive or lettuce, and take but little room and lare easy of cultivation; trans-plant cabbage, [hrocoli, cauliflower, lettuce, endive and white (beet. Hoe, earth, and tie no lettuce for blanching: earth up celery taking care that the earth does not full into the heart of the pi int. Where the strawberry beds we.rc not finished last month the sooner [ now done the better, following the directions given last month. Lilt and store early seed potatoes. All vacant ground dig and manure, laying it up rough or in ridges, ready for digging for next crop. Early budded fruit frees may now have the ties loosened; and where the gooseberry, currant, and raspberry have sited their leaves commence pruning. Fruit trees of all kinds, where the. leaves are shed may be. removed. All docks, weeds, primings, &c., should be collected and burned, placing over them a layer of earth that they may be more charred than burned, also all bones that can be obtained may be placed in the heap.