FARM & GARDEN OPERATIONS FOR JULY.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 184, 4 July 1874, Page 2

FARM & GARDEN OPERATIONS FOR JULY.

FROM TUB HAWKE'S BAT ALMANAC. Kitchen Garden.—Should the season be dry, and not verj' frosty, the main crops of carrots, parsnips, beet, onions, leeks, &c., may be sown; in exposed situations, or far inland, next month would be soon enough. Sow plentifully of peas and broad beans; be careful not to sow’ the dwarf kinds too close together. Sow, in gentle heat, capsicums, tomatoes, cueumbers, and melons; plant horse-radish and Jerusalem antichokes, sow radishes, spinach, lettuces, endive, mustard, and cress. Fruit Garden. — Collect grafts; put them in a shady corner for a few days before grafting; proceed with pruning; >lums, peaches, and nectarines should have men pruned in the early part of June, as they flower in August. Dress strawberry beds. Transplant fruit trees early this month, if not before done. Do not cultivate too near fruit trees or buslies, as, by digging, the surface roots get destroyed. Flower Garden—Sow hardy annuals and biennials; prune and transplant roses —they require a generous soil to flower well, more especially the hybrid perpetuals. Divide chrysanthemums. Put in cuttings of roses, honeysuckles, spirea, laburnum, laurel, &c. Take up the bulbs of tigridia. Sow sweet peas for early flowers. Flowering shrubs must be sparingly pruned now’; the proper time is directly the bloom is over; crowded shoots, not showing bloom buds, should be cut out. Plant out from seed beds, hardy annuals, biennials, and perennials.