FARM AND GARDEN OPERATIONS FOR APRIL 1875.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 261, 3 April 1875, Page 2

FARM AND GARDEN OPERATIONS FOR APRIL 1875.

(From the Hawke’s Bay Almanac.) Kitchen Garden.—Sow cabbages, cauliflowers, broad beans, radishes, peas, spinach. Plant out cabbages, cauliflowers, and lettuces. Plant horse-radish ; trench two feet deep, loosening the soil below, put the crowns on the bottom trench, and fill in lightly ; the ground must not afterwards be trampled upon. Beet should now be ready for storing, as also should carrots. Plant potato onions, and eschallots ; let the onions be planted eight inches apart each way ; do not bury them entirely. Sow rhubarb where it is to remain ; let the soil be veryricb, anddeeply dug. Draw drills three feet apart, and sow one inch deep; when well up, thin to about eight inches asunder, and finally to three or four feet apart. Stick late peas or they will not pod. Fruit Garden. —Trench all ground previous to planting. Plant gooseberries and currants. Almond trees, should be transplanted early in this month. Make raspberry beds; be sure the ground is deeply dug and manured; draw canes from strong growing plants, and put them three in a group, three feet apart each way, and the rows five feet apart at least. Established plants, more than five feet high, should have the tops cut off, and the beds be kept as free from suckers

as possible. The second crop of figs should be ripening. Flower Garden. —Put in cuttings of roses, myrtles, fuschia, pinks, carnations, geraniums, &c. This maybe continued till June, holding it as a rule that the farther from the sea" coast the sooner the cuttings should be in. Prune and train climbers. Plant anemones, ranunculuses, and Cape bulbs ; they will Hower in August; divide roots of herbaceous plants. Sow hardy annuals and biennials. Remove all shoots from the stems of budded roses. Part phloxes. Lilies that have formed large clusters, should be taken up, divided, and replanted, giving a liberal supply of well-rotted manure; the whole of the lilyworts should be kept out of ground for as short a time as possible. Plant out roses ; let the soil be deeply dug and well manured. Ranunculus beds must be deeply dug, and enriched with two year old manure ; should the ground be infested with wire-worms, they may be entrapped by burning slices of potato iu the soil; these being occasionally taken up ; the wireworms that have penetrated them can be destroyed ; it is said that ranunculuses eau be preserved from wire-worm by edging the bed with daisies.