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Mataura Ensign, Volume 10, Issue 678, 17 June 1887, Page 8

June, Kitchen Gabden.— Sow beans, peas and radish ; in heat, cucumber and .melons. Plant out cabbage, cauliflower, sea kale, horse radish, rhubarb, asparagus, thyme, sage, land other herbs. Clip box borders, and dig alt vacant spaces rough, bo that they may receive the fuli benefit of the woather, care to be taken not to turn over any ground when frozen. Fruit Department. — Push forward with planting of all kinds of fruit trees, rasp - berry canes, and strawberries. Prune all Kinds of fruit trees, clean strawberry beds, and dig between the rows. Many amateurs commit a grave error in putting manure under the roots of trees. Avoid this, because when the manure decays it leaves , holes, which the tree has to fill up with roots, thereby causing a considerable delay betoro the tree will bear or get a start to grow, and they never nuke the same vigorous growth as a tree will do by planting it right. Trench the ground, and place good soil one foot deep below where the roots are to go ; place about four inches over the roots ; then mulch with, good stable manure, finally covering with soil. In planting, the collar of the stem should be level with the surface. The following list of names of fruit trees will show good kinds for those to choese from that intend planting out a small number :— Dessert apples ; Adams' pearmain, Cox's orange pippin, Irian peach, Northern spy, scarlet pearmain, Blenheim orange, Bull's golden reinettee, Westerfield's • seek ne further,' scarlet nonpareil, EeobusSpitzenburgh. Cooking : Alfriston, beauty j of Kent, catshead, Dumelow's seedling j gloria mundi (largest apple grown) Lord Nelson, Keswick codlin, Kentish fillbasketj and Royal sovereign. Pears.~Dessert : Bergamot gansel, Beaurre de Ranee, Beaurre Diel, jargonelle, If aria Louise, Louise Bonne of Jersey, and Winter Nelis. Cooking : j Catalic, Uvedales St Germain, and Vicar of Wingfield. Plums— Dessert : Coe's golden drop, greengage, Jefferson, Kirke'a purple gage, Rei&e Claude, Boddaert, and yellow gage. Cooking: Damson, Goliath, Orleans early, red magnum bonum and Washington. Floweb Gabden.-- Finish planting early spring flowering bulbs, gravel walks, lay turf, and top-dress lawns. Plant hedges, and sow hedge seeds when the weather is favorable. Plant shrubs and trees as early j as possible, before the frost gets too severe. Take up dahlias, and store them in a dry place covered.