GARDENING FOR DECEMBER.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1908, 2 December 1874, Page 3

GARDENING FOR DECEMBER.

Kitchen Gabden.-Plant. out. Brussels ! sprouts, savoys, broccoli, on very rich, ground; early white Cape to heign with,: Dilcnck'sbride,andmammoth, Walcheren,.. cauliflower, and late London. Plant-out: celery and leeks; choose showery weather for planting. Two more sowings of tall late peas this month; maiiure and', water before sowing if ground is dry* Another sowing of cabbage, cauliflower,, round spinach, radish, lettuce, and, smajL salading, drumhead saroy; earth' main, crop potatoes; thin out advancing crop® of carrots, turnips, red beet, and cabbage lettuce; sow early horn carrots and, onions for drawingyoung in autumn; train and stop tomatoes, pumpkins, pie-melons p . and cucumbers.

FfiUir Gaiiden. — Cherries require' looking over, pick fruit as it ripens; pears, and plums, also thin fruit where necessary, also peaches and nectarines;. where* two are together pick one off. All trees; bearing a heavy crop of fruit, water with; manure water; pinch tops off young shoois of figs, it hastens second crop, adds to the quantity of fruit. Thin out gooseberries for bottling, and remove strongest shoots from interior, destroy suckers, : itt strawberry beds, hoe, keep down runhersi,. water if necessary, gather fruit when dry 5 look over spring-grafted trees, disbud; side shoots, aud keep down "suckers, also attend to young stocks for budding and,, grafting next season.. .

Flo we 2 Gabden.—Plant out tenderannuals, as well as stock of ■ beddingplants ; finish planting dahlias, put stakes: down, tlien give each a good watering,, rake ground between plants; hoe-and rake gravel walks, mow lawns, pare> edges prune or clip hedges; camellias and aaaliiiß well drenched with water ouce a week; put in cuttings of pinks, carna~ tions, pansies, and stocks, for flowering; next spring; also, anterhinnums, penste* mons, phloxes, and Jap&u pinks,—Chapman's Almanac.