GARDENING

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 281, 20 September 1889, Page 2

GARDENING

$ Itseems toNic ttt«general impreshou thnt"tiie Hhj&lhen Chinee " is fctie only nn^iiwc^an make gardening pay. It i» a pity, as it is not bo, and any person with care anfl attention to the detail* rf g-aatfonTip-cou'd make a good Hv.ng L at it. Gardening is, not a purautt to be tafefen^o.fib^ hazard, foil*/ requires attention erery day and all the year wHfi^ttwl-* wpoeiai Bttehtnm-to the aspect and locality for the various crops. ItAasswrfjte been out contention w,2fssMp». districts offer such opemng£^tordens, both of flower arid vdgetaTjfea, as the land mam around ; Foxtoh. The? succession <tf ridgefcjthat run through fee small town sections seem to' cry aloud for the erection of vineries, upon which they could be put at a nominal cost, and have the very, aspect, to the north, most needed. After our visit to, and deseription'of the tiunnyside vineries laat ' y.-ar, we wero in hoj)e» to have' seen some others erected in the townallotmewts. It would appear possible for the 4 , town sections on the Moutoa road" 1 and Purceli street £6 have at lqast three tiers of vinories, one above the other, which would give a large number of feet, and whea we learn that the »oil is' just 'suited to ' : the; growth of the vine, and one, shilling a pound can be "otta'inea^orj-rhe fruit, it appears that the owners arewilfully losing a vei^ : profitable" 'investment. ' EveA in cases where the expanse stays %c erection! of buildings, we regret the apathy that is shown to take as much out of a property as can be got. The hillsides are allowed to run to grass, when if broken ' up- wotflfl yielcf a prop,? of early potatqes 'hard to beat. She. lower portioW w'ouTd ' give later yield, more especially as at the door, as maybe snid^ isv'to <bg-. obtained for the, carting away- some* o&iitke best manure ; we refer to thfc^frjpe fvo/u the flax, mills, but ,a*£a:", word of caution is necessary in its use>- we ! may as well give it. The refuse x is not suitable when qipplied tfresh> ij» it lightens the ,soil too*, ,itfucb, **a burns the seeds', but if obtained and kept in heaps to rot, fjhenj&wi 1 be ioundmost useful. As. .this > kitfe© mon'h when nearly all seeds, should be sown, wehope t^^|%6i'^[le\'gy clisplayed; nianj; I yflp|^ii l *](;we of graun^be^ng btougbi W»u«jis*ivntion for the n«a' and^^l^iusursi-of its ' occupier. ' » k 6iU0 l "%ereo!»* *Mir that every 6rie;g#rdemfij£Vhl ieduce the value to a mere nothings but wo may as welil<£tate that fcher? is hai-dly^u^thingf 'than Ijo^ produced in too lbge'^quantiticfe; •*K,. we will. Kuppooe,.. evei^" Vae^t. dse of the town was placed ; under^roj>, as a. vegetable. garden-,: it might)perhaps be hard to dispose ofr ovepj* cabbage, at a paying price, but as evory gard ner keeps a pig, wliat cabb,agefe ppp not' sa!,eablft ca^ at no trouble to the owner, be ti'ansf erred into pork, ■If large quantities of vegetables were .'grown; a. market would arise., as we only pointed out a'fe\r issues agb,, a^ a jbujrer v«Qnld be found- who would place them in tins, and send themto other places w ere;t> Bcarcit} r existed. ItffiS:iowing.to the very wan . of ; a; (fu,afctity that prevents such beings 4otiQ»^-4^d therefore the g wiener- {has^evairy cause to. encourage- hw, wi^hboni? to produce, xather than fear ( jiim a|i,a cqmpetijorv TiQiiing^'is, Hot the. only industry prevented by wayjfc^of garden produce^ for jam making, aud picklipg. all await tfoft energ>' of tho^cpttageiv : .^fee position ofithe occupier of a, qu^rt-,r ,of an^qre Jxere is pitiable, he ruins the heajtji of himse}lf.,and family jfrqw..wanV oi' vogetables, and . actnjtliy [ainja.ojerishes himself y }f y .pu'rca^sing m^ajfc than ,^e nee<jL,do fipHLtb^e neglect oi the soil over wkicn^e-livQS. Gardening pays, even if a man never ; s(^. a/slu'Tlings. W9i*th, 5 o| f whtvt he raised,, it, ppyß .because : '" yegetablqs are iecessary to aea^^ q^c^uso ft is a healthy empWnieht , and. it pay's bewi ug<| so mupjraT the . mine* details c/in"be. ac^naed to. me^'chil(irqii.', Gardening. would'j)!^; beM^* if everyone would attenct f to llt^ As the spare piwluce, poufd h^^dVtfib . means of finding employment for a number 'of people; w ; h6^*fiatfiMr*!,'; wotikT h& the ' means of ttd^e in ; troduction of more forelg'h capital into tlio colony, 'lherefore gardening besides being a pleasure, besides being ne&lthyv becomes 4. ..AjAifyf. t-. '