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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 253, 1 September 1879, Page 2

nliE FLOWER, FRUIT, k KITCHEN '. GARDEN. FOR AUGUST, THIS should be a busy month in all gardens, for draining, digging, trenching,, planting of trees, hedges, bulbs, etc. Dig round all fruit trees giving apples, pear?, and plums manure; prune fruit trees cutting away a cross shoots leaving 01117 such branches as ought to remain, do not follow the absurd practice of cutting back the leaning branches witli the idea of making the trees dwarf. In cutting the tree back it only forces growth encourages blight and waste fruit, Those that believe in cutting back to cause fruit bearing or to make a dwarf should inspect the result upon hedge rows under the same treatment, and they will sec that edges that are cut are the tallest and the most branchy but without fruit. If you want haws take the hedge that is left to grow without cutting, So we have found the same result in fruit growing. In planting out young trees water them well, put shelter round young pines and cupressus. Early sowing of cabbage eeed may now be made of the following sorts Early York, King of Cabbage, Warenheap, Sugar Loaf, alsocauliflower in a dry sheltered spot. Onions to ensure a good crop should be sown this month, the sorts to sow are is one of the best crops and keeps best for large onions, try giant roccoa. Sow carrots early and late sorts, Sow turnips towards the end of the month, also parsnips and potatoes. Sow parsley as edgings or in beds, also peis and broad Windsor beans. Flower seed will be bettor sown this month than later; shelter them from the sun and frost. Sow rhubarb in well dug rich ground the stalks will be fit for use in Autumn.

mHB i MASTERTON EIFLB CORPS .1 will parade in the Town Hall, on TUESDAY evening next, September 2nd. at 7,30 p.m. F. W, BUCK, Captain 244 Commanding M.R.V. Corps. 1/TR WILLIAM PARKED, Temporary office—Ante-room, Town Hall, Masterton. 252