GARDEN CALENDAR FOR NOVEMBER.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 243, 31 October 1873, Page 7

GARDEN CALENDAR FOR NOVEMBER.

Kitchen Gabben.—Early sown vegetable crops will now be advancing rapidly, and will require close attention as to hoeing, landing-up, and staking ; and any of tlie main crops of vegetables not yet put in should be attended to immediately. Finish planting potatoes, and make sowings of peas, broad and French beans, runners, nasturtiums, and tomatoes. Sow cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, savoys, and curled green, on rich, well-prepared ground, to induce rapid growth, which is the best preventative of blight on these crops yet discovered. Finish the sowing of carrots, beet, and parsnips—taking care to cover seeds properly, otherwise, owing to the dryness of the ground at this season, the best seeds may not grow. Sow turnips, lettuce, and radish. Celery may still be sown in a shaded place, and early sowings pricked out on beds formed of well-decomposed manure, and well watered. Every effort must now be made to keep weeds in check by means of the Dutch hoe, which should be used if possible during bright sunshine; for if weeds are allowed to choke the young crops, and left to shed their seed, it will take years to eradicate them. Fettit Garden. —In dry and exposed gardens, all newly-planted fruit trees will be benefited by a mulching of stable manure being placed over their roots, to extend about two feet from the stems of the trees. See that shelter from the prevailing winds is provided. Attend early to the disbudding of trained peach and and apricot trees, removing but a iew at a time, so as to prevent a too sudden check in the growth of the trees. Thin the fruit of peaches and apricots, when about the size of peas, to seven or eight inches apart. This, to the inexperienced, may appear a great sacrifice, but if carried out will prove beneficial to the trees, and will tend to the growth of large and wellflavored fruit. Mulch strawberry plants with short litter or grass, to prevent the fruit from being soiled by the heavy rain. Flo web Gabden.—Dahlias may now be planted out with safety. To grow the dahlia successfully, it requires a rich, deep soil, and to be set four feet apart each way. Hollyhocks will now require stakes. Plant out verbenas, scarlet geraniums, fuchsias, heliotrope. Transparent stocks, asters, marigolds; also thin and plant annual and other flowers. Keep down green fly on roses by frequently syringing, and encourage growth by watering with manure water. Pansies, pinks, and carnations should have the soil stirred frequently about them; and if growth be languid, water with weak guano-water.

Matrimonial Relations in Queensland. —They seem to be pretty fr e people in Queensland. We observe from one of our exchanges that an errant husband is thus warned by his better half:— "I hereby give notice to my husband that unless he returns to me within three months from this date I shall get married again." Patent fuel has been tried at Melbourne for engines, when they were enabled to be worked at a pressure of sixty-two pounds to the inch. A French transport with 500 wives and children of the Communist prisoners, has arrived at Sydney. Dunedin and Moeraki Railway.— We understand that the District Engineer has received instructions to proceed with the preparation of the contract plans for the first section of this line. The work will therefore be ready for tendering in the course of two or three months. The first section terminates at Blueskin, and includes the heaviest works on the railway.—' Star.' As the afternoon Dunedin Coach to Tokomairiro approached the White Horse Hotel, it was met by a man named An. Drews on horseback. From some cause or other the horse took fright and reared. In coming to the ground its head struck upon the wheel and it was killed on the spot. The rider escaped uninjured.— 'Bruce Herald.'

Holloway's Pills and Ointment. —The most effectual cure for G-out and Rheumatism.—A frequent cause of these complaint s is the inflammatory state of the blood, which usually attends bad digestion, producing lassitude, and great debility, thereby indicating the want of a proper circulation of that fluid, and the impurity of the blood thus induced greatly aggravates these disorders. Holloway's Pills are of so purifying a nature, that a few doses taken in time are an effectual preventive against gout and rheumatism, but whoever may have an attack of either should use Holloway's Ointment also, the searching properties of which combined with the effects of the Pills, ensures a certain cure. The Ointment should at least twice a day, be thoroughly rubbed into the parts affected after they have been sufficiently fomented with warm water to open the pores thereby facilitating the introduction of the Ointment to the glands.

WASTE LAND BOARD. The usual weekly meeting of the Board was held last week. Present—The Chief Commissioner, and Messrs. Bastings, Butterworth, Clark, Heid, and Strode. Messrs. Stewart and Joyce moved that the petition of certain residents of St. Bathans be entertained, and that the land referred to in such petition be offered for sale. The petition was received, and the question postponed for enquiry. A large quantity of business of no general interest was also got through. The ' G-uardian ' says —" During the proceedings the Waste Land Act caine in for considerable abuse, and it must be acknowledged that it richly deserves it. At almost every meeting of the Board applications which are clearly contrary to common sense and fairness have either to be granted, the same as yesterday, or else refused, as on former occasions, at the risk of involving the Board in a law-suit. Yesterday an application was made to exercise a - pre-emptive right on a certain run. The Chief Commissioner stated that the right had already been exercised ; but as the matter was further considered, it appeared that, since the first pre-emptive right was exercised on the run -in question, it had been sub-divided. Now the lessee of one of the sections puts in an application for another right, and there is nothing in the Act to meet such a case, and therefore it had to be granted. Another provision which seems to cause considerable difficulty is that the first applicant is the purchaser. This was well shown in the case of Traquair Hundreds, and it was further illustrated yesterday. There was an application made for a sawmill license, but, while this case was under adjournment, another application was put in to purchase, and this, according to the Act, took precedence of the other. The Act was described yesterday by various members of the Board as being a 'botch,' 'an Act impossible to be fairly administered,' ' one that would require the retention of the whole bar for its administration,' 4 an Act fearfully absurd in its results.' If it merited all this abuse it is to be hoped it will soon be amended, or some one will be claiming an entire run under its provisions some of these days."