TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 295, 12 December 1891, Page 3 (Supplement)

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Tomatoes (Amateur). — Certainly if yo l J pick the flowrxs off your tomato plants it wil 1 Strengthen them and make them su-ow quicker, as-thoy would then be unable to form fruit. £ suppose that in planting out your plants tho growing of fruit was your object, and to take ©ff the flowers now would spoil yourehance »£ obtaining an early crop. No ; allow the flowers to set, ao that you may set fruit. If you want the plants to grow quicker, give them liquid manure often.aud with the present Sterne, weather they will soon grow as quick. _s you want them.

IUBKIOtTS-rooted Begonias (H.W.) — The tuberous-rooted begonia will make a gool pot plant, but in our climate it will do equally as well out in the open border, and as you say that you do not care for the trouble which pot plants give you, then plant them out in the open. Try and procure a few shovelfuls of good soil so as to put round, each plant when planting. After planting Rive a good soaking of water, and during the season water about once a week. Your plants should be in flower from about the end of this month till the cold weather sets in or till about the middle of May.