WEEK'S WORK
THE FLOWER GARDEN Prune your lilac bushes. Sow panties and Anchusa Italica. Lilt and replant Madonna lilies when they have finished flowering. Prepare ground for winter sweet peas. Lift and clean daffodils when the foliage is dead. Lift and replant freesias. THE VEGETABLE GARDEN Spray tomatoes with arsenate of lead for caterpillar; keep plants tied and pinch out lateral growths. Pinch Out tips of melons, vegetable marrows and pumpkins to cause lateral growth. Cut vegetable marrows as soon as they are a usable size. Sow dwarf beans. Pick runner beans as soon as ready. Hoe between growing crops, such carrots and parsnips. Keep asparagus beds weeded. Support tall growths from strong wind. Remove flowering stems of rhubarb. THE FRUIT GARDEN Thin heavy crops of apples and peaches. Spray apples and pears for codlin moth; use arsenate of lead. Spray peaches for brown rot; use lime sulphur or wettahle sulphur. Destroy all fallen fruit. Keep the soil under the trees loose and clear of weeds. Remove inside and surplus growths of peaches to allow the sun to get to the centre of the tree.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 303, 23 December 1939, Page 6
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