Gardener's Calendar.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 65, 30 March 1868, Page 79

Gardener's Calendar.

ST may be well to remind our readers that a latitude of eight or ten days or even more should he allowed in reference to the directions given in this Calendar. In a climate like that 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.

EOR THE MONTH OE 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 arbutiis? 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 wowing crops. Make final sowings of all the cabbage tribe for spring planting; sow radish, mustard and cress, also spinach, wfute beet, New Zealand spinach. Sow peas, early sorts, early frame, or Songster’s No.. 1, beans, parsnips, carrots, white stone and early Dutch turnips. Sow onions for planting out in spring. Plant out eschalots—they are Holder than onions, and used in soaps, made dishes, or as sanding with endive or lettuce, and take hut little room ana are easy of cultivation; transplant cabbage, brocoli, cauliflower, lettnce, fendive and white beet. Hoe, earth, and tie up lettuce for hlannhing ; earth up celery talcing care that the earth does not Ml into the heart of the plant. Where the strawberry beds were mot 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 Tough or'in ridges; ready for digging for next crop. Earlys budded fruit trees may now have the ties loosened * and where the gooseberry, currant, and raspberry have shed their leaves commence pruning.’, Eruit trees of all kinds, where the leaves are shed may be removed. All docks, weeds, pr unings, &c., should be collected, and burned; placing over thorn a layer of earth that they may be more charred than burned, also all bones that can be obtained may he placed in the heap.