Round the Gardens.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 22 October 1891, Page 2

Round the Gardens.

cabbages, are all out, and the arrangement of the garden andflts . very clean condition reflects vgreat * credit on Mr Cawston, whom we understand is head gardener.

The other day we paid a visit to Mr Christian Honore's garden, The front portion is only just been laid out, and is at present ploughed up, ready to receive a crop of peas, potatoes and pumkins &c. A hedge is planted along the front of young macrocarpa and a few rows of young apple trees are in the plough. Near the house the beds are under crop and a nice patch of early potatoes, standing with thick heads a foot high, notwithstanding that they were cat to the ground at the last frost. A small row of peas are in pod, but are nothing particular. At the back ot the house is the garden proper, and there the soil is very rich and damp. Here were seen a good number of excellent sorts of apple trees, but nearly all disfigured with the Aphis blight, which a little care would keep down. We reckon a gardener should resent the intrusion of this blight as an insult and turn it out as promptly as he would a boy whom he found after his fruit. The blight does more harm than the boy. However the vegetables make a pleasing show. A few rows of strong growing " stratagem " pea gives promise of many an appetising dish. The onions, strange to say, are growing well, and greatly too thick. Other gardeners are complaining bitterly of the bad onion seed obtained this year. Cabbages are coming forward some of which will soon be ready to cut. Parsnips must be a favourite vegetable with Mr Honore, as he has three beds, the plants of which are in their third or fourth leaf. The rhubarb has been placed in ridges, as last year the ground was found to be too damp for them, on the level. They are doing remarkably well. The gooseberry bushes are laden with fruit, and some are of the very large "Boaring Lion" kind. The currants are alao fruiting thickly. It is almost needless, this year, to say that the apple trees are loaded with fruit. Mr Honore has the satisfaction of having his garden in good order and well forward. Another garden we visited the same day, was the one attached to Mr Cawston's hotel, and there we found the desert (of the past) flourishing like a rose. The soil is light and must be cropped very early to reap the full benefit. No time has been lost, as every square inch has been ns2d to grow something. Potatoes are in, but not forward, but the cabbages, lettuces, are well ahead. Tomato plants are all placed out along the fences, and if good luck attends them, tomato will be a regularly recurring dish at this comfortable hostelry. Cauliflowers, Brussells sprouts Red pickling