GARDENING NOTES

Mt Benger Mail, 26 April 1933, Page 3

GARDENING NOTES

(.By B. M. Jeffery.)

It is getting rather late now for doing much in the way of sowing seeds. Got in a sowing of green peas; it, will be found that main crop varieties will give the best crop of early peas. Rut in Dwarf Defiance, .Stratagem and Peerless it a good show-bench variety is required. Have a supply of greens by sowing the prickly seeded or winter spinach. Ihe largest onions will be produced from an autumn sowing of Alisa Craig. First crop cabbage, sown now will give spring cabbage. All the Year Hound lettuce is the best variety for present so wing. Perennial Hewers will be obtained by sowing now for next season. Sow in si ed pans or sheltered beds aquilegia, delpheniiim, lupin, pentstmoii. CanterDurk lulls, sweet Wiliiam, etc. For i ally summer dowering, jiiaii! seeds of antirrhinum, annual . hiysiiutliviuum, pansy, tea-week stock, forget an not. svM.-t peas. etc. Uompb to the planting ot all bulbs. Apple growers will lu- pleased to note tin introduction by Messrs Laxioii Bros, of Lngand, of the now app ’ ■ 1 La\lon's Fortune. ’ ’ H has as one ol its parents Cox'- Oriingi- Pippin and A dc-cribed as bi'lag of good -ize and w-li coloured, wlnb the flavour is capi i )nl and Hie ti.'-h sweet and juicy. Will j i prn here in April. THOSE KASPHKHHILS. Possibly the fact that ra.-pln rri •'1 tiav - a habit of lingering on for years | in a semi fruit ful state, e.x pin ins why many growers are striving to get good n-tilt,- from ciuies, which from a comiioieial -taiidj.ioia! are wiuilibss. No amount of care and attention can put quality into the berries ol deg, aerate valieii'-s. It must in r-'inembered lhat hj! the varieties which wen- first fa.villi it ' a do/.eu year- ago, not one i- a pa'il: on the i..-t ■ f the new varieties from to day. s-n-b varieiies a- Super al iv. . Semper Lnle.i- and -»tli ei - havv had their day and are no e i;gei worth considering when repiantii g. inten-iing plant, is w. uld be well ad vise ; ;,i plan; out th peipetual fruit ing raspin'! ay Lloyd lieoige. This is stioug grower and a tremendous ■ i-o,,per. The large iierrie-, nearly tiie ~/.e of Logans, rtpi a early and contame hale. Tit• berry is lemarkaidy li - a and ;- a tieau'ifni dessert variety. This berry is !>■ ing widely pkinl-.-d n Aiick’aiul distriet. ’• ime- -h; >i; N1 be set out 2ft apart with 1 o feet between th r ws. Befori painting put , [.(■-!- at either end o! -..w- S.I wilieli w re' may in- -trained. If row - are eng put in in'.-nu-diate- every 2uft,