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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1075, 17 August 1869, Page 4

, '^- ytY rr. pMcx" " "'"'■' ; ' PIANOFORTE & HABMQNITJM TUNB B Cablyle-Steeet, Napieb, IN returning thanks for the aupport he has hitherto received from his patrons, begs to assure them that he will always endeavour '■■"" to merit a continuance, and, he trueta; £n ex- ; tension, of that support,, whfch Will render; : . r unavailing the casual visits of incompetent and unprincipled tuners from other provinces. Tunings in town taken by the year; in the , country, aooording to distance. %§£" Remember the address— Carlyle-street, Napier. HAWKE'S BAY GARDEN CALENDAR. AUGUST. . Kitchen . Garden.— Sow - carrots, parsnips, onions, leeks, lettuces, radishes, spinach, beet, peas, beans,' cabbages and cauliflowers. Protect early potatoes where necessary ; fronds of fern stuck along, the rows form a good protection against the frosts of spring. Silver beefy which, is grown for its leaf stalk and leaves, should be sown in rows and thinned out to two feet apart ; the young leaves are an admirable substitute for spinach, and the stalk alid mid rib is used for seakale. > • Fruit Garden.— Peaches are now in! blossom, and toward* the end of the month ; the plums begin to bloom J therefore it • would not answer to prune any of them, but such trees as are late in developing. f ■ either blossom buds or leaf buds may still '.'< be pruned. Grafting should be performed '~';\ this and next month, according to the state of the buds ; the ' most successful time : is > when they begin to swell. , Apples, pears, medlars, quinces, plums, may still be planted , in cases of emergency ; the trees will require mulching and frequent waterings if the next month should be dry. Flower Garden.— Sow anemone seed ; mix the seed with sand and rub well, so as ; to separate the downy seeds from each : other ; sow them thinly, sand and. all, but . a little below the surface in rows 12 -indies.,.,; apart, and thin them out afterwards to 12 j inches in the row, transplanting to another bed those thinned out. Manure roses.' with ', cow-dung, two years old if possible ; prune some of them, leaving others to be pruned : in Ootober, so that you may obtain a succession of flowers. Put dahlia roots! in . gentle heat to make them shoot previously to dividing and planting out. SEPTEMBER. Kitchen Garden. — This is the busiest month in the year. A final dressing of . . salt and guano should be given to asparagus beds. In transplanting, never draw the plants from the seed bed, but lift them with some kind of tool. Sow asparagus, American cress, beans, beets (white and red,) brocoli, cabbages, cauli- .: flowers, carrots, celeriac, celery, lettuces, \ leeks, onions, mustard, nasturtiums, parsley, peas, parsnips, rhubarb, seakale, savoys, spinach, turnips. In gentle heat sow cucumbers, melons, 'marrows, tomatoes, '] and capsicums. Make thyme borders. Plant potatoes, garlic, horse-radish. Plant out leeks when about size of a goose-quill. ' Plant carrots, parsnips, beet for seed j do . not attempt to raise seed of more than, one variety of each at same time. Fruit GARDEN.—Graft fruit trees. Rootprune over-luxuriant trees. Watch for American blight ; if it is making rapid progress among the bursting blossom buds, touch with a little olive oil. Mulch newly, planted trees, and water them occasionally. Flower Garden. — Sow tender annuals ; sow biennials and perennials. Spring gladioli should be at once planted. Transplant perennials (excepting tap-rooted ones), every other year; where they cannot be safely removed, manure them freely. Put in cuttings of fuschias, petunias, ver- '";- benas, geraniums, roses, pansies, aloysia, syringa, spirea, &c. Plant dahlias and marvel of Peru. OOTOBER. Kitchen Garden. — All sowings omitted last month must be performed .now : keep seed beds well weeded and thinned. Sow plentifully kidney beans and runners, carrots, parsnips, small salading, melons, cucumbers, and marrows. Slugs now become very troublesome; cabbage leaves : smeared on the under side with grease and laid among th& beds.- successfully entrap them ; as the slugs feed at night, the leaves will have to be visited at that ti. m e« ■ . V..-,. ' Fruit Garden.— Disbud trees, with the thumb, of superfluous buds. Trim away strawberry runners, reserving such of tho ... strongest as may be required for new beds. -. Mulch newly planted trees with lawn mowings, rough stable litter, or even weeds. , ' Flower Garden. — Sow annuals of all-, kinds for successional flowering ; sow also . biennials and perennials. Acacia seeds and others of similar nature germinate , with greater certainty if they have been steeped in water at nearly boiling heat for an hour. Plant dahlias; those that were lett in the ground during winter . will send up numerous shoots ; select the strongest, and remove the others; the suckers will all root. NOVEMBER. Kitchen Garden. — Asparagus beds should be in good working order at the beginning of this month ; salt applied once a week materially increases the yield, and keeps the weeds under. Sow Cape brocoli now, if done earlier, the plants are apt to , run ; sow carrots, rub the seed in aand and sow in drills nine inches apart. Plant potatoes ; sow kidney beans, runners, (scarlet and case-knife,) peas, celery, vegeteble marrows, melons, cucumbers, tomatoes; sow nasturtiums for pickling. Capsicums may be planted out in open border at end of the month. Part thyme, sage, savory, mint, and marjoram. Thin out and transplant onions and leeks ; prick out plants of cabbages and cauliflowers to about four inches apart. Fruit Garden. — Keep down American blight; during the summer months a strong decoction of tobacco mixed with .flour. of sulphur is a better application than turpentine, as the latter destroys the foliage wherever it touches. Remove suckers from raspberries, reserving three or four of the strongest canes for next year's fruiting. Peach and other trees much infested: with scale should be painted over with a mix-; • ture of 2 lbs soft soap, 2 lbs flour of sulphur* 1 lb tobacco, a wine-glassful of turpentine, and 7 gallons water. If the season is at all ' dry, water strawberries every evening ; cut away the runners, excepting those reserved last month for planting new beds. Flower Garden. — Sow annuals and biemiials of all kinds. Take up and store hyacinths and most of the Cape bulbs as soon as the leayes begin to change colour. Plant cuttings of China roses; banksian roses must be pruned now; hybrid perpetuals will be going out of bloom, cut them back a little, so that they may gain strength for autumn blow ; apply liquid manure . occasionally, If the green fly or rose aphis > is very troublesome,., dip the ends of the shoots in a decoction of 2 ozs, of quassia to . a gallon of water. Prune flowering shrubs as soon as they have done blooming. Divide : and plant out chrysanthemums.