CARDENIND FOR THE WEEK.

Evening Star, Issue 14963, 24 August 1912, Page 4

CARDENIND FOR THE WEEK.

i0... r rnr' ft ■•!: v tnr , a WC(i-k rl'n.CTl MTTrf* Vf r infl be g'ad to c.n*wer <;'iei-tioiis, irh'h I'iuft be /•>■■•>.'.•■■/ not later than 'lues uuy of (c ca week. —The Vegetable Garden.— The long days are rapidly approaching:. We shall have to be up and doing, and take advantage of every line day when the ground is dry to keep it stirred about by hoe ; and raking - to keep down seedling weed?, aa they are beginning to make their appearance in thousands. It is comparatively an easy matte; - to keep the weeds in check whilst they are small, but if allowed to large the work is increased to an enormous extent. This is required not c niy in the vegetable gar den. but in all parts. Almost every kind of vegetable seeds may be sown from now onward. Remember that the weather is the master or' outside work, and that it is sheer \\a..-te of time to fifrht against it. Better to wait patiently for a change for the better than to rush in seeds or even plants whilst tilt ground is in a wet condition. Sow peas of the early dwarf marrowfat kinds, taking care to sow them in the best ground procurable. Give them plenty of room between the rows, even thoueh it be wide enough to plant a row of cabbage or two rows of lettuce brtween the rows. A crowded quarter of peas is never satisfactory; they smother each other, and the shaded parts of the haulm produce nest to nothing. Sow broad beans for main crops. Make a small sowing of beet for an early supply. This should be sown en fairhwarm" soil, as it is liable to get nipped with late spring frosts. A small sowinsr of celery may be made now, but it should be sown upon a hot-bed. A barrowload or two of warm stable manure makes an excellent place to start a few other seeds. Sow a few leeks for early planting. Sow rather thickly, a$ they are mme the worse for being a little drawn, since lercth of stem as well as size is required *(.> make good leeks fit for exhibition. Sow turnips, carrots, kohl rabi, parsnips, the main crops of onions, spinach, radish, icd mustard and cress. —The Rose Garden.—

As I explained in a recent issue the pruning of roses, I will now touch briefly one or two other points cf importance. 1 will suppose the pruning is over and dippings all cleared away. The nest ■"2 to be dons is manuring and dipiing — '.: we can call it di~™ing. There arc t':r--e kinds of pviiHire—vegetable, animal, :''J mineral. Vegetable manure consists c: such materials as cabbage leaves, pot to tops, grass clippings, collected and rotted. The most valuable cf all manure? are the animal, such as pood- well-rotted horse and cow manure, with a lit tie pip: and foul manure, all well mixed. That which is most frequently used is good stable manure, and I consider it the best, especially upon clayey and hpavy soils. On sandy soils cow manures are preferable, being cooler, but ?s a mulching nothing equals pood stabie manure. I think there is no doubt that in light or fairly light soils top-dressing is the best, but with !' r, ;:vy soils I prefer digging some in very shallow, just under the surface.' /his must be done very carefully, or it is 1 etter left alone, as injury is clone to the plants if the manure is dug richt in among the roots. Liquid manure is piepared by patting in a bag some cow or sheep droppings, or both, tying the mouth o: the sack, and pinfinc it into a- big; barrel and fillirg it full of water. In Care should be taken not to give weakly plants a watering with this unless it is very weak. Strong and vigorous plants will take it pretty strong. Fill up the barrel with water as the liquid is used. The right strength is the oilor b'tween ale and stout. Tha best artificial manure I have tved is that which is known as Tonks's mixture. Yom -;;>n s;et it made up reody for i-se at ICempthorie, Preiser's, or you may get the materials separately. They consist of: jjuperphosthate of lime, 12 parts: nitrate of potash, 16 parts; sulphate of magnesia, 2 parte; fultihate of iron, 1 pnrt; sulphate cf lime, S parts. This mixture I have vsed for years, and I find it very beneficial to roses. The right proportion to ire is a 4in potful to 6ft square of t!TO"nd. F.venlv scatter it ore- the sirfaco alter the groird has been du" earlv in the spring, md jrive a second dustinsr with the mixture i"st as the roses are for'i ir.f their buds. Faili"s this, i;:ve. tliFm one tablespoonful of sulphate o? amino*)!? a->d one of rt'trats of soda in fnur gallons of weak liquid rrancie. Th's should alwpys be given when the ground b moist after rain. —Answers.— " F. A. IT."— Having been away from home, /cut letter ha,; been long in reaching me. Consequently the leaves are too much cn-mried and drier! for me to name them all. No. i is the leif of a brach::ghttus (that is, the large leaf), and No. 2 is Cenecia roirndilolia. The others I cannot mak;. out at all. " J S." asks me to esphin the method of psgging down vof.es, I thcught I made this quite clear in my notes en the rose in a recen 1 issus. I think you will find in iny notes I rekrreu to thspe girg down of lorg and strcni; varieties, euth as Frau Karl Dru.-chki, Lady Waterloo, etc.—those that require long pruning. The method, is to get 6om« length of stout wire, -make a hook at one €n<L hook it over the branch or snoot,' and bring it down gradually;niuiK the other end of the wire or wooden

> f hcok, as the case may be, into the ground at the same time. If your .roses are tallstemmed, old plants, it would be almost impossible to bring them down, but with short-stemmed, young plants it is comparatively easy. Such varieties treated in , tnis way are not only more effective and in i] keeping \vith ; the dwarf kindl but' give a far bolter return of. bloom, ae they will , break out and flower all" along the limbs. "G.S.T."—The grubs you forward to me are, I feel aimo'st certain, the cause of vour lawn gnss dving. They are'one of 0 ! the woret kinds. The only remedies I 'can '" j suggest are vaporits,-iipterite, -or : the dig- •' I gii'.g in of a good dote of. gas.'.'lime, and I sowing down ai'.esh. The -go* -Mine jnay be I strewn upon the surface, left for- some. n j time, and watered in ; then rake and-sweop_ ! it from tat grass, and roll .the ..thie isiuif ;'i well in. lint-this is not so effectual as 1 j dieting in a b o.od dressing and sowing do~ui airesh. . . . . H.C,