GARDENER'S'

New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, Volume IV, Issue 282, 20 September 1843, Page 2

GARDENER'S'

" , DECEMBER. Plant out celery, give a good supply of water after planting. Kidney beans may now be planted for a late crop. Begin to look over peach, nectarine, and apricot trees ; rub off the new advancing ill placed fore right shoots, buds, and other irregular growths, and all young shoots which are useless and are situated in places where they cannot regularly be trained to the espalierts. Disbudding vines against espalierts should be looked over this month, as they will be advancing in growth or shoots ; the dressing for disbudding at the early season, is to be performed with the finger and thumb rubbing the shoots closely off. The vine is a creeping plant, throwing out the most succulant shoots at the extremity of its branches ; in training this tree, it is necessary to keep three principle objects in view. For the purpose of obtaining a large quantity of fruit, its mode of bearing should be first taken into consideration, and the object of the cultivator must necessarily be to obtain the greatest quantity of bearing wood of equal distribution. To take off the top of each branch bearing fruit at the second or third joint above the uppermost bunch, except such branches as are destined to remain for fruiting the succeeding year, which latter must be exposed and by no means topped, for if the sap be checked in these, many of their buds will burst the same season, and- the fruit of next year be destroyed.