TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 265, 14 November 1885, Page 4

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Foot'iAiii jtßiir).-I partly anßwered your (|uestliin lost week to a Ponsonby correspondent. Whan inlntf tlio above for checking slugs and t nails on jounir cabbage plants take a handful und spread it in a small eirclo round pach plant There is no noaeaaity to Bproad it nil liver tho ground unless you havo unlimited quantities; in such a eiso, give it a good dresaing all over tho surface of tho ground. Flower Bordkk (M.C , Grafton).-It would bo too lato for you to break up now ground this Eoaon to mako into llowor bor.lerd. Boforo you could got your soil into a woH-pulvopucil Btato tl c weather would bo too dry for plant ing out or sowing annual seeds; in fact, tno bordt-r should bo all planted out now, and the Rcoda through tho ground, co ns to give thoma (banco o( Hiving you much (lower this year. Your eoit being a stliFclay, it would bobottcr for you to give it a good doßo of manuro now, dig it up roughly, and lot it, Ho all summer. Tn tho autumn turn it ovor again, give it moro manuro, and comnienoo planting flowers in it oarly in tho winter. Tunicit Roses (subscriber).—Thoso feh. uld have boon through tlio ground now ; ijlaiu out tt once. rJho abovo liko a dtop. rich, w»rm, sandy noil. Mulct: a 'omnont and plant them out, and w tor thorn. VVhou iliny begin to show llowor give occasaioual waterings with woak liquid manure. I saw a good number of tho above in llowor laßtseusinin Auckland. You ought to go lo a littlotroublo in growing thoin.as thoy aro really a niagiutinont llowor. Don't lift your tulip bulbs till tho roliiiKO is p operly dried off; aa long us it in groon it ia uuppUca ntri-ngih to tlio bulbs. Tho name applyes to all bulbs; novor lift or disturb them till the follugo is all properly riponodoll".