GARDENERS' CALENDAR.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 233, 22 August 1873, Page 3

GARDENERS' CALENDAR.

August. < Kitchen Garden. Sea Kale: cover the strongest roots with boxes or barrels, and place some fermenting stable-dung round each, to start their growth. Peas and Broad Beans: .-.put in first sowing. The hardest frosts occur here in July and August, and it will be advisable to defer the sowing of small seeds till the end of the month. When the ground has been previously dug any of the Cabbage tribe may be planted. Manure Khubarb, and make fresh plantings. Stir jthe surface amongst Onions or other young crops, to prevent the frost from heaving up the soil. Fruit Garden.—Take advantage of mild weather to transplant fruit trees and bushes,, and proceed with the pruning. This operation is frequently overdone by attempting to bring bushes which have been neglected at once into the operator's favorite shape. It will be found safe practice to prune moderately, removing suckers from the roots, and leaving the centre of the bushes rather open. Bed and white Currants require very close pruning. The Black Currant requires very little cutting, merely keeping the bushes moderately .thin of wood. Prune and tie Raspberry canes, leaving but four or five to each stool. Plant Strawberries, and finish the dressing of old beds ; "but avoid the barbarous practice of cutting, off the leaves. Plant hedge-rows: put in Thorn Quicks six inches apart. Flower - Garden.—See that the ground in this "department is all dug up roughly to the action of the weather, as a few frosty nights will have a beneficial.effect, especially on clay soils and recently broken-up ground. Flower roots may now be divided and planted. Bulbs may be set where it has been omitted to do so." See that the planting and pruning . of Koses be attended to early, and that, they have a good dressing of rich half-decom-posed manure.—G-. Mathews.