THE GARDEN. (From the "Coromandel Mail. )

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 16, 19 April 1884, Page 6

THE GARDEN. (From the " Coromandel Mail. )

Kitchen Garden. Make successional sowing of cabbago and cauliflower for winter and early spring use. Celery and leeks give a good watering with liquid manure, and earth up those that are sufficiently far advanced, Good celery should always have well-blanched stalks, about a foot long, and the way to procure these is by drawing the soil from each side of the clay trench, and putting it about the stems of the plant. It is better to do this earthing- up on two different occasions, doing about six inches each time. The length of the bkmched portion of a leek is also brought about by the same means. Harvest all crops as they ripen, especially onions and the late-planted potatoes. Pumpkins and piemelons as they ripen gather and store in a dry place ; the haulm clear away, and have the ground manured, trenched, or dug for the reception of another crop, or sow down in green feed. Allow no ground to stand vacant during the winter : it is better in crop.

Flower Garden. Continue making alterations or forming new garden as long as fine weather lasts. Take care, while carrying on the above operations, that no surface or good soil is buried too deep, or too much subsoil brought to the surface. Many of the annuals will have passed the best or done flowering. Have all the debris cleared away as soon as they become unsightly. Sow a few patches of hardy annuals, so that you may have a few early flowers next season. Carnations, picotees, &c, which were layered early in the season, lift and plant out in their permanent situations. Plant out a few tulips, hyacinth 4 ?, crocuses, anemones, &c., for early flowering. Continue giving liquid manure to chrysanthemums. Camelias, azalias, and rhododendrons should now receive a little attention. The mulching should now be slightly forked under the surface : it will act as manure. Turn heap of sods stacked for top-dressing lawn next month ; this will cause it to sweeten.

Greenhouse. Considerably less shading will now do. By the end of the month it u ill do to take it off altogether. Bulbs and tubers that are going to rest should be watered sparingly. Ferns will mostly have completed then- growth, and will now be kept considerably dryer. Keep up a good circulation of air.