THE GARDEN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume VII, Issue 233, 11 January 1889, Page 2

THE GARDEN.

+- Thin out former sowing of carrots, } spu^aeh, and turnips. Cucumbers, melons, pumpkins and vegetable maiTows will require attention. Never water till after sunset. The planting out of celery and leeks had better be deferred till next month, unless the weather should be showery, then seize the favourable time. Cabbages, brocoli, and cauliflowers 4 should be planted out, but unless a plentiful supply of 'water can.be afforded them it, woujd^ be, useless, as the cabbage blight would, attack them, therefore defer it after rains * in February. Budding should now 'be general; choose cloudy weather for f th£ operation. Budding is the artpf making a bud unite to the stem.or.bwaich of another tree. Buds from- seedling peaches and pears are easier productive, and produce finer frui£ if budded upon a robust stock? Buds of almost every species succeed with most certainty if inserted in shoots of the same years growth. Buds succeed more than grafts, .and if a graft has failed, a bud may succeed in the summer of the same year Buds are ready for removal when their shields, or bark attached to them, separates readily from the wood. Scallop-buddingmaybedone almost at any season. Buds should be taken from the middle 1 of the shoot; those from the point are said < to make wood too freely, anjl ' those irom tne base to be more unexcitable and consequently, less prompt to vegetate. .