FARM AND GARDEN OPERATIONS FOR APRIL.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 606, 6 April 1876, Page 3

FARM AND GARDEN OPERATIONS FOR APRIL.

Flowur Garde*. -Itemove annuals, tnfi cut down all plants past flowering. Collect »eedi. Attend do fly to all matters ot routine. Prepare bedH«f.ir tulips, ranunculuses and anempnies. Continue *.o piopage pansies, double wallflowers, ttc. The early layers of pinki and curuations will now be rootifd, und should be detached from the parent planU, when they may be kept in j.nts or bedded out at once. In stiff clajey soils, the addition ot a little soil of quite an opposite character u of mush advantage, propagate verbenas, fuchsias, pelargonium*, heliotropes, petunias, etc. ( Kitchen and Fruit Garden.— Prepare soils and compost*, destroy all lublmh by fermenting and lotting rather than burning ; d\£ and trench ground. Whece bits df waste ground cannot be o cupied with crops either turn it, up rougi ly for ihe ameliorating in <hjence of the weather, o/sow rape, vetches. out«, or 'maize, to bo dug in. Earth up celiry*. leeks, and kumeras where 'necessary. Make occasional sowing *i salad herbs. Take up beet and store in a dry, airy place. Plant out cauliflower*, celery where required, and cabbages lurgely in good soil— gh c plenty of room. 'I Inn spiuach. Pick up a few strong turnips and plant \ them a foot apart ; they will yield a larga supply of aprouta in the earfy sprang. Apples and pears should be gathered as they ripen ana stored in u dT>, airy place, tuking caro not to lay them too thick. ( Tigs should be closoly looked after, especially if the weather is at all bright. Peuches, nectarines, and plums, except in & Jew rar«, instances, will all hare been gathered. Grapei will be manuring freely ; the old black Hamburg and similar kinds may be kept two or three weeks after they are cut from the vine if the bunches are cut with a. few inches of th« wood and hung in a dry, airy place. r arm.— Rowing gruNK sesds now bdeomes ge'heral, and should be completed during the month i( possible. Jf. tr.e pasture is intended for tlieep, Ttpt, turnips, and Italian rye -grass may be mixed with the tlo\erand perennial r\c-grius On very dry land otts may be sown wit n grass for cattle to fyed on during the wmter, or may be sown separately where the land *is to bo 'ploughed again 'in the Sprtiig. Potatoes should be all stored and well coveiod. If ramt havo been put to the ewes early in March they may be taken away at the end of April, t,iz or neren Weeks buing long enough lii general, although in tome caiys it may be necessary to let them remain longer, or erou to put them to fresh rams after an interval of a few days.

"Wb are requested to inform the inhabitants of the Waikato diittldts tbac Mr Hubort's store, of Ng«riuwauia, which hiu been cloud far the lut month, owing to the Chang* of owaeribip.jmd tht extoniive i alteration of prtmue*. wiil be opined, by J, QUuymr &. Oo 6q Tnunday, tne 3Dth mutint. There 'Will 1 be a choap wile of the stock which iru on ho'ad pro* > ■Nioaa to the iauchaa<.— (\l>rt.)

Tn-OHt who want nevr drapei) and clothing will do well to see the immrube •took which hag just arrived at N^aTn«twali)ai, and which will bo ■old at price* Lithcito unknown ia tho Waiknto. There in a lurge ctock of if\yt', men and women't strong elsstic and Wtd up ho«U whioii will be •old At mtj low price* to reduco the Btock J. 'JT.MotP' & Oo (l&tc W. H. Hubert), Ngarua-