The Garden.
Seasonable Notes,
Though winter is upon us with her frosts and winds, we cannot afford to neglect our gardens. This may truly be said to he the month to prepare for the spring. All vacant ground not wanted for immediate cropping should be well dug and manured, but it shoud be left rough, m order that the various winter changes may sweelen the land, and leave it m tine tilth for seed time. Where it is intended to transplant young fruit trees m June or July they should be dug round now m order to cause fresh rootlets to shoot. Cuttings may now be planted of gooseberries and currants. Attend to raspberries, clean rhubarb heds, and prune red and black currants. Sow cauliflower and cabbage for early spring, also lettuce. Lift main crop of potatoes. Generallyclean up before the winter rains set m, as land should never be touched when wot, except when it is of a pliable nature.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 142, 15 May 1884, Page 2
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161The Garden. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 142, 15 May 1884, Page 2
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