GARDENER'S CALENDAR FOR NOVEMBER.

Southland Times, Issue 1165, 15 November 1869, Page 2

GARDENER'S CALENDAR FOR NOVEMBER.

Summer commences with November, and all hough its general character may incline to warm dry weather, yet the • ground is not unfrequently cooled, trees, plants, and seeds greatly refreshed, and rapid growth in each encouraged by occasional copious rains, which stimulate vegetation in a very remarkable degree. Kitchen G-abden. — Earth up peas and beans, likewise cabbage ; stake peas, for they bear much better. Peas mar he sown fop succession, Plant out vegetable marrows, ridgo cucumbers, tomatoes, and capsicums — neither of those vegetables will succeed if exposed to cutting winds. French beans may now be planted with safety ; the best sorts are the early dunn, the negro, and the early speckled. Scarlet runners can be kept dwarf by heading back, and white Dutch runners should now be planted. Full crops of turnips and carrots may now be sown for autumn and winter use. Aberdeen yellow and Swede turnips sown now will come in for winter use, and although considered a field crop, are excellent garden vegetables, and generally do better than either white stone or the oiher fancy varieties usually grown for the table. Sow red beef, and white, or silver beet as a substitute lor spinach. Continue succesßuraal sowings of radish, mustard, cresß, lettuce. Plant any of the sorts o( cabbage or cauliflower for autumn use up >n vacant ground, and keep the hoe going and all the crops free from weeds. Sow savoys, drumhead, broccoli, and kail, for winter cropping. Cucumbers and melons in iraines should be earthed up, and well supplied with water in dry weather. Sow main crop of celery. The ' early celery sown in the nursery bed should now be exposed to the open air to harden, but shaded from the mid-day sun, and well supplied with water, and, in about a rveek or ten days, should be planted in a nursery bed of light rich soil, about one or two inches apart, and well watered and shaded till they strike *Oot. I^bfit GrAEDEN. — In the fruit garden continue i ' to remove all useless and misplaced shoots from peaches, nectarines, &c. Remove suckers from raspberries, gooseberry, and currant bushes, apricots, and fruit trees generally. Should the weather prove dry, strawberries will require watering to enable their fruit, to set and swell off. ITiowsb Garden. — In the flower garden all pot plants that have been preserved through the winter may be planted out with safety, as all danger of frost may be considered past. -Balsams and other tender annuals may also bo sown, and hardy ones thinned out, as they grow stronger and flower better for it. Continue to stake and tie everylhing requiring it, as neatness and cleanliness should be the order of the day. Keep the hoe and rake going. Hollow ay's Ointment. — Turn which way you will, go where you please, persons will be found who have a ready word of praise for this Ointment. For chaps, chafes, scalds, bruises, and sprains, it is an invaluable remedy j for bad legs, caused by accident or cold, it may be confidently relied upon for effecting a sound and permanent cure. In cases of Bwelled ancles, erysipelas, gout, and rheumatism, Holloway's Ointment gives the greatest comfort by reducing the infla•matfon. cooling the blood, soothing the nerves, adjust ng (he circulation, and expelling the impurities. Th' 3 Ointment should have a place in every nursery. It will cure the long list of skin affections which originate in childhood and gain strength with the child's growth.