GARDEN CALENDAR.-NOVEMBER.

Temuka Leader, Issue 192, 6 November 1879, Page 3

GARDEN CALENDAR.-NOVEMBER.

£Eeom Geo. Puedie and G’o.’s Calendar.] • Kitchen Gabden.— Remove the tops from Beans in flower, and earth up the lines if not previously done. Earth up Jerusalem Artichokes, Peas, and French Beans that have made a pair of rough leaves, after thinning to four or five inches. Thin Leeks where forwarded enough, and plant the thinnings nire inches apart, and the rows eighteen inches from each other ; if intended for hlancing, the lines should be two feet apart ; shorten the weak leaves ; repeat the shortening about once a menth, as new leaves are produced ; this causes the neck to swell to a much larger size ; give liquid manure to those that remain untransplanted, and stir the ground between the lines. Prick out Celery sown in September into a rich bed of rotted dung and earth mixed, so that they may form a mass of fibres, in order to lift with balls for planting ; water freely, to induce growth. Pinch out the tops of Horse Radish which indicate flowering ; earth up and stake Pef.s ; thin all advanced crops of vegetables that require ittie those Cabbages 'that have stood Winter in the same manner as Lettuces, so as to hasten their hearting. Plant out early sown Cauliflower and Cabbages, and finish planting Potatoes. Sow Peas twice, Broad Beans twice, Cabbage for Colewarts and Cabhage for planting, Cauliflower, Erench Beans, Radish, astur trams, Lettuce, Endive, Mustard, ( Cress, and early Hutch turnips. In heat, rS&w Squash, Vegetable Marrow, Pumpkins, Cucumber, and Melon seeds, Celery may be out of doors in a shaded nook. Attend to .she cleaning of crops. Esttit Department. The wall trees, such as Apricots, Cherries, Peaches, Plums, and Nectarines, will be making young wood Tapidly. Young branches, coming where they are wanted, should be carefully laid in, and those that grow out from the wall, and such as are in places already filled, should be removed. Apples, pears, and other esqalier trees should be looked over for the same purpose. Attend also to the shortening of strong shoots. Thin the fruits of Peaches, Nectarines, and apricots, not less than five inches apart ; but if six is wanted, a fruit only should be allowed to each shoot. Newly planted trees must be regularly watered in dry weather until they establish themselves. Much between the rows of Strawberries with straw or grass, for the cleanliness of the fruit is the great object. Examine the newly-grafted trees, and if they have united and begun to grow, remove the clay or wax ; loose and re-tis the matting and attend to the removal of suckers from the stocks. Eiowee Department. Finish bedding out; all the flower beds, borders &c., should now be finished off tastefully. All patches of hardy annuals should be thinned, and the tender sorts raised under glass,—such as Stocks, Asters, Erench and African Marigolds, Zinias, Lahelia, Balsams, &c. — should now be planted out. Stake Cavnation plants whenever their stems shoot up, as they must be supported with proper sticks. Stir the soil to induce growth, feeding frequently with guano water or other stimulants. Attend to cleaning plants and ground.