FARM AND GARDEN CALENDAR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XII, Issue 4123, 30 January 1875, Page 5 (Supplement)

FARM AND GARDEN CALENDAR.

February. Flower Garden*.—ln showery weather con tinue to transplant animals, removing them, if possible, with a ball of soil attached to their 1 oots. Fili up gaps in the borders; water r.ewly-planted things in the evening or early morning in bright weather ; remove all decaying leaves and straggling branches; keep the borders loose and open with the hoe, where they are not covered with the plants; take up anemones and ranunculuses that are past flowering and well ripened off; propagate herbaceous plants by cuttings and. division ; hardwooded plants by ''iyers, where practicable. Bud roses ; collect seeds as they ripen, allowing only pods from the finest blooms to reach maturity. Eradicate weeds, and attend to walks and edgings. Kitchen and Fruit Gardes.—Knmeras should now be moulded up; also leeks, celery, ard any potatoes that may still require it. Plant brocoli for spring crops. Lettuce, onion, cabbage, luriiip, and early peas should be 8c~n : also cauliflowers. Burn off rubbish, and . ..u the ground ~-om "\iieh the crops have t- en gathered. Destiny weeds fc-.' - - | seeding, and keep the 9oil open and loose oa the surface. Gather herbs for drying. Cut and train hedges; support heavy-laden fruit trees ; thin out all young shoots crossing caun other; pinch back strong shoots. Remove stawberry runners, and superfluous raspberry shoots. Examine plants budded last month, and continue budding when required. Where fin-; fruit is required it 'o ill be necessary to thin heavy crops, i\jU">vin:; the least and worst shaped.

Farm.—lf the weather is favourable small patches of land may be sown with Capo barley, oats, or Italian rye grass, to be cut for feed, or eaten off during the winter months. The main crop of potatoes will be fairly begun upon about the middle of this month. Grass is generally scarce, and dairy stock and horses will require green maize or other food to be supplied to them. The state of the different drinking places on the farm, and the supply of water, should be looked to, if neglected before. The drawing of stones and scoria for roads, stockyards, aud gateways, ought to be finished this month. Thatch, in the shape of rushes, or whatever is suitable and convenient, should be in readiness to cover the potatoes, which, if intended to be kept, may be put between two rows of posts five or six feet apart, ti tree being laced against the rails. Make enquiries, now the grass seed is being dressed, for what yon will want in the autumn, and bear in mind that incalculable damage is often done by introducing bad weeds into lands previously clean by meaus of dirty seed. Ewes may be put to the ram if early fat lambs for the butcher are wanted.—Heed anil Brett's Auckland Almanac.