OUR GARDEN CALENDAR.

North Otago Times, 5 June 1913, Page 1

OUR GARDEN CALENDAR.

.(Hy, George Hrownlcc.) * JUNE, 1!)].;!. "What pensive beauty autumn shows, Betore sliq hears:the sound Of winter rushing in, to close The emblematic round The past moth of May has been more like midwinter than our usual early, mild winter days. Probably a,milder June will make some recompense for the vagaries ot its predecessor; June is our second month of.

winter with a mean temperature of 4(j degrees and an average rainfall of 1.33 inches. The long nights and-the cloudy days -will increase the torpidity of the soil, but the shortest day will soon come round, when the swelling of the buds and the singing 'of the thrush will inspire the tillers of the foil, with, hope, and stimulate I hair energies. -Kitchen Garden.—

No time must be lost in preparation for the early vegetables. Wheel out manure and dig all the vacant ground, exposing it to the action of the Irost. Vtry little sowing of seeds can be done during June. If there is a sunny spot where potatoes have been lifted from it is advisable to make a sowing 1 of broad beans and also early peas. If early cabbage and early cauliowcr seeds have not been sown choose a sheltered warm spot and sow them at the earliest opportunity. Sow winter spinach, it will grow during the month, and make a very useful dish. Plant rhubarb roots in deeply worked and well manured trenches. Cover the crowns with stable litter. Plant shalots and garlic. It was a tradition of the old gardeners to set their bulbs on the shortest day ; at, any rate are slow growers, and require plenty of time. It may be advisable to sow a few seeds of lettuce, and also lonu radish. Give the seakale beds a good sprinkling of salt, keep the young crop of onions free from weeds, and keep all the ground well loosened with the dutch hoe during dry weather.

—h'ruit Uarden

The time for the transplanting of fruit trees and fruit bushes has now arrived. The soil after a touch of frost will be friable and mellow. Planting is of more importance and demands greater care than is generally bestowed upon it. 'The ground should be trenched and manured, or, at all events, deeply ploughed and subsoilcd, and there should be some attention given to drainage. Kor greater convenience in after cultivation fruit trees' should be planted in straight lines, from at least fifteen to twenty feet apart, or even a greater distanco if space permits, llako the holes two feet in diameter, Throw out the top soil ' ant! loosen well the subsoil; .some' of the latter should be taken out. Throw in some wellrotted manure, which should be covered with line soil; place the ti'ee in the centre, spread out the roots carefully/and lil! inwitli line mould, treading it lirmly all round. The trees should not bo planted deeper than they had been previously growing. The varieties of apples now grown are by lar too numerous. Amateurs should be careful of new varieties and seedlings. There is an abundance of well tried sorts that give' entire satisfaction, i'or a household the following varieties will give a succession that would be hard to improve 011: Lord Nuffield, Cellini, Gloria Mundii, Alfriston, Lord Wolseley, Kymer, and Stunner. Thev are all good doers here and they are easily kept clean, .In the other varieties of fruit trees growers should be guided by the experience of their district, Pruning should now have attention, ft is' an art, in which doctors diger, and of course in many cases the tree 111 ay die, or at least be spoiled. Use the knife sparingly, work the trees into pood shape, keep the centre open, and remove all branches growing out of place. Spraying should follow the pruning—not before pruning J which is shear waste. Kor the pears and stone fruit fungicide is efficient, ft is a Boi'deau mixture accurately proportioned, and is much easier to handle and safer than- home-made stulf, l<'or the apple trees affected with mussel scale, red spider, and woolev aphis, red oil emulsion is the most up-to date and is a thoroughly efficient'spray, Of course there is a dilfereiice in the quality of emulsions. Guaranteed red oil one part to fifteen parts .of water will give a. proportion of seven per cent of oil on., e/ieh tree. To follow the spraying the lumpy spots caused by t. h e aphis may be painted over with

a brush, using one part of oil to live parts, of water.' .Recent Government experiments have proved these facts. It is now imperative that all fruit gar-; dens and orchards -should be sprayed to the satisfaction of the king's most dutiful inspectors.

—EloWer Carderi,— Very little can be done in the flower borders except trimming and cleaning, up. Bulbs where crowded may be divided and replanted. Some tender plants may require covering, Sweet peas may be sown, enriching the soil with some fertilizer or superphosphates. Vacant borders should be dug up roughly in preparation for. the sowing of flower, seeds in early '"''ring, .Edgings and border may be trimmed and the walks cleaned up. • -The Lawn.-i- ■ It is r.ot too late to sow grass seed. i\'ow lawns should be thickly seeded, well raked over, and frequently - rolled. Bare patches in old lawns where the a'rub has been.' working should be thoroughly heckled with a coarse I'akc. resown with] seed, fertilizer, finely raked, and firmly rolled, The best seed for a lawn is mixture of twelve varieties of dwarf evergreen grasses, . . jj

CORED COLDS AMD BRONCHITIS,

"Some time a;;o," writes Mrs N. J. Jolmst»n, -Little River, N.Z., "my two lioys, Leonard and. Tom, had severe, colds anil Itfonchitis. Havin? seen Chamberlain's Cough Remedy advertised for the cure ol bronchitis I decide to try what it ■wouW do tor my toys. Alter the first bottle they showed great impr n v>ment. end were' completely cured by the time they had finished the second bottle."—Sold everywhere.