THE GARDEN.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 189, 29 January 1887, Page 1

THE GARDEN.

Kitchen Garden. Tii£ late prolonged dry weather will have nearly brought all growth to a standstill, unless where water is used unsparingly. In seasons like thid not a drop of wastewater should be allowed to flow down the drains. It should be all saved for use in the garden. Celery should tre watered unsparingly with it. If the late crop of celery and leeks is not planted out already, have auch done at. once. The early- planted crop will want earthing up ; carefully tie -up the foliage before earthing, leaving plenty of room for "talks to swell. M tke succes-ional sowing* of French and i&e running varieties ot beans. Earth up a- d sake the running varieties ; on the eaily-sown crop?, pick off beans as soon a.a they are res^y for use. The younger they .sit* pic fed the better the crop will be. Sow a riniii patch of cabbages and cauliflowers. .Kkhpr autumn giant or Ihe lat" Italian giant are tha best. K°cp the soil moist till ready tor traus-p' frying, earth up those that are irioviiig, &T. 3 clear away debris of old crops ii 1 th' y'are cur. Tcma*o< tie up to trellis, pinch back a-> i regulate growth, and give wa'er frequently. Cuoumbeif, pumpkins, m:xtrowf, e^c : Thin out supeifluousshoots, }jmcW buck fruiting ones and give plenty (A wtUtr, rr,ixeii with liquid manure, MB'» f> ns tren- as above, but water sparinely. Now is the pea=on for dealing with vacant pit-cee of ground that have bocome ever-run wi'h troubles-ome weeds. Jjxg such piece, and try and get the roots of the weed- opposed to the sun and air, wliieh will *•'•< n kill them, and if in a few ■week-i' Haie f hey again make their appearance, turti nvrr the ground again. Only keep the fo'i ■Age" from growinpr, and the v-red* wil! *<<• n die. Cont'nuo collecting oU debii; ox crop?, and place on rubbish heat 1 , du^tiuii salt and lime.

Flower Garden. Continue the pinching: and pegging down of all bedding plants, give plenty of water so as to keep thorn in good growing order till the usual autuccn rains set in ; still mulch a? materials come to hand. In the mixed borders contiouo staking aud regulating all tall growing plants as may require it, thinning onS all rank growing ehoots, -.^picking otF ;A) flower spikes that are past flowering, and nofc allowing the plant? to grow ?eeds, Unless a few spikes of really good fiowert! which you may wish to save. " The whole -trength of the plant phould be spent in producing flowers only, and vhere seed ie wanted only the very best specimens should be saved, as inferior blfi'-rrs will reproduce inferior ■flovere. The Tuiole surface of the borders should be frequently stirred with the hoe, 'so ac to keep :t free and loote ; also killing ail weed? in ttie teedling state. Lawns : Mow frequently, and give plenty of water in the evenings to keep it green, it possible. Where lawns* ure on poor, stiff soils, and have got badly cut up, provision ought now -to be made for getting plonty of good soil for top dressing oarly this incoming winter. iicoi 1 ,, rich bla>;k soil is the beat. Put up ioto a heap. A good deal of shell lime put lrp with if; will help to sweeten it, and make it in ppl^ndid condition for putting over the lavrn iv tht> beginning of winter.

Greenhouse. Crlvo plenty of air and water. Shade d-urinp; tho cky. Ro pot such plants ac "may require nice pot room. Now is the time for laying in a freeh Ptock of potting soiJ. Take from two to throe inches in depth of the -surface of any good grass paddock ; n friable loam is the best for general parpens. A cart-load will last in inoet •places for some time, if well looked after., Stack 7 in a heap m some convenient plaoe the hou?e It should be ready for use in nbcut three months' time, but the older it is the better.— Hortus, in "Auckland Star."

A Dakota young man and his wife are troubled over the legality of their resent marriage. They live near the Manitoba line, and the parents of the gfrl having forTbade her leaving town, she stood on the Manitoba side and he in the United States, aod the minister stood with one foot in the Queeo's realm and the other in Uncle Same, and tho two were married.