GARDENERS' CALENDAR FOR FEBRUARY.
Mean temp., 64 ° — corresponds to August in England, mean temp. 63 ° . Kitchek Garden. — This month, with few exceptions, may almost be called a repetition of the last ; the weather may be a little more settled, but this is so uncertain that it is impossible to predict what it will be, therefore it is better to keep on the safe side, and follow the directions given last month. In the kitchen garden the main crops of peas, beans, and early potatoes will be ready to make way for winter vegetables, and when they are ready for removal, no time should be lost in getting the ground cleared, manured, and well dug for their reception. Plant the main crops of savoys, Brussels sprouts, green kale (or curly greens), and also the various kinds of broccoli and cabbage. Plant endive and lettuces for winter use. Sow for sueession, radishes, mustard, and cress, green curled endive and golden cress, also a supply of onions, as may be required to draw green for salads. The end of this month is the proper time to sow cauliflowers and the various sorts of cabbages for early spring planting, either to remain in their seed beeds or to be j pricked out in others ; the cauliflowers should have a warm or sheltered situation. ; Spinach for winter use many also be sown now. The main crop of celery should now be planted with plants from the seed sown in October, as eairler sown plants are apt to run to seed. Onions will now be ripening, and should be taken up and dried to be stored away for winter use ; also shallots, if not already done. [Fruit axd Elower Garden. — The fruit garden will now be yielding its treasures, and care should be taken to support such branches as are being borne sown with the weight of their fruit. Continue to remove all superfluous and misplaced shoots from either trained or standard fruit tress, likewise all suckers from the roots. Budding should be finished by the middle of this month, to allow the buds to get strength, before autum frosts set in. In the flower garden the growth, of dahlias and various plants of luxuriant habit will require strong stakes to preserve them against the wind ; for dahlias the best way is to form a triangle with three stakes tied at the top, and about eighteen inches apart at the bottom, and tie the branches to each stake, the plants acquire thus a more graceful form than those tied to one stake only. Continue the propagation of all kinds of flowerng plants, and if omitted last month this should be done without delay. These seeds of a great many of our choicest flowering plants will now be fit to gather, such as geraniums, verbenas, phytunias, linum, grandiflorum, delphinum, formosa, carnations, and many others, which should be carefully attended to, as it is by propagation from seed that new vaieties are got, the raising and sale of which have brought fortunes to many in the mother country. Bulbs of the various species of gladioli, ixias, sparaxis, iris, amyrillis, will now be ripening, and if required for distribution, should be taken up and stored in a cool dry place ; but if not wanted, put strong pegs at each lot of bulbs, so as to know where to find them when the borders are dug, they will, bloom, stronger than those takea up,
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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 215, 12 February 1866, Page 3
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574GARDENERS' CALENDAR FOR FEBRUARY. Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 215, 12 February 1866, Page 3
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