Rural Kalendar for April.
The Garden.-Earth up all previously planted cabbage tribe, also peas, beans, &c. as they advance in growth; make another plantation of cauliflowers; plant and sow more lettuce and endive for succession ; earth up celery, being careful not to let any mould touch tlip hearts ; land up cardo'ons; dig nud trench all vacant grounds; plant and prune raspberries;'finish taking up potatoes, also Jerusalem artichokes; to save seeds, transplant cabbage, savoy, parsnip, beet, carrot, &c. Form strawberry beds ; strawbeniis to bear well, must have the runners always cut off. Plant forest trees both deciduous and evergreen in well pulverised ground, propagate the .-auie by cuttings and layers ; transplant also native trees mid shrubs; gather tree seeds ; dig fl >wcr borders. Commence re-planting all your tlowcr bulbe, carefully preparing the soil brfore-haud. The Field. Sow wheat, oats, and grass seeds on previously cropped or well prepared soils. Reduce lands that liavo been ploughed and broken up, and cleanse them of roots and all other rubbish. Sow tares and Cape barley for green crops. Plough li'iids that have been cleared for winter fallowing. Be earnest and industrious, for now is the season in which the New Zealand farmer may do much t<> relieve bis country from future corn importations from abroad.
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 4, Issue 60, 10 April 1851, Page 2
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211Rural Kalendar for April. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 4, Issue 60, 10 April 1851, Page 2
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