FARM & GARDEN OPERATIONS FOR AUGUST.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 192, 1 August 1874, Page 2

FARM & GARDEN OPERATIONS FOR AUGUST.

EBOM THE HAWKE’S BAY ALMANAC. Kitchen Gabden.-Sow carrots, parsnips, onions, leeks, lettuces, radishes, spinach, beet, peas, beans, cabbages and cauliflowers. Protect early potatoes where necessary; fronds of fern stuck along the rows form a good protection against the frosts of spring. Silver beet, which is grown for its leaf stalk and leaves, should be sown in rows and thinned out to two feet apart; the young leaves are an admirable substitute for spinach, and the stalk and mid rib is used for seakale. Fbuit Garden. —Peaches are now in blossom, and towards the end of the month the plums begin to bloom ; therefore it would not answer to prune any of them, but such trees as are late in developing either blossom buds or leaf buds may still be pruned. Grafting should be performed this and next month, according to the state of the buds; the most success-

ful time is when they begin to swell. Apples, pears, medlars, quinces, plums, may still be planted in cases of emergency; the trees will require mulching and frequent waterings if the next month should be dry. Flower Gabden. —Sow anemone seed; mix the seed with sand and rub well, so as to separate the downy seeds from eaeh other; sow them.thinly, sand and all, but

little below tho surface in rows twelve inches apart, and thin thin them out afterwards to twelve inches in the row, transplanting to another bed those thinned out. Manure roses with cow-dung, two-years old if possible; prune some of them, leaving others to bo pruned in October, so that you may obtain a succession of flowers. Put dahlia roots in gentle heats to make them shoot previously to dividing and planting out.