SOLUTION TO LAST SATURDAY'S CHILDREN'S PUZZLE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19221, 9 January 1926, Page 4 (Supplement)

SOLUTION TO LAST SATURDAY'S CHILDREN'S PUZZLE.

FISHERMEN BOLD

Oh, fisherman bold, bed-time is near! Come, empty the fish from your jar. Mummy is calling again I can hear; The red sun is setting afar. Oh, fisherman bold, pull up your floats, Like good little fisher folk glad; . To-morrow we'll bring your gay sailing boats, One for each brave fisher lad.

There a»re several systems of layering. In dealing with carnations, tongueing is the general method, and the most successful. First select good strong shoots and strip off some of the lower leaves. Cut the branch half-way through making the incision with a, sharp knifo throqgh a joint or below a bud in an upward direction, and about half-an-inch long. Peg tho shoot down. Keep the top perfectly upright and the or tongue open. Fill in with prepared soil pressed down firmly with one and a half or two inches of covering when sufficient layers are put down around each plant; well water. The layers root quickly, and are ready to take off ,in about six or eight weeks' time. PERPETUAL CARNATIONS. These are becoming more and more popular. They are of a free-flowering character, blooming during the winter as well as the summer. Their flowers are carried or borne upon long "stems, and are invaluable for cutting; they succeed remarkably well in our climate, and are the best for pot culture. Their tion is chiefly effected from cuttings taken off almost at any time when suitable shoots are available, and inverted in pots or shallow trays with a surface-coating of half-an-inch of coarse river sand. They may also be put in the open ground and successfully rooted. When grown in pots in glass houses, they require plenty of air and sunlight. Consequently, the glass must not bo heavily shaded. Picotees require to be propagated by layering, the same as the border carnations.

PEAS AND BEANS AND LEEKS. Another sowing should be made of peas, beans, spinach, lettuce and other seasonable crops as soon as conditions are favourable. Leeks, too, should be planted, as they form a very useful winter crop, and practically free from the attacks of insect pests. To produce strong, well-bleached stems they require to be planted in soil that has been well enriched with manure, and they should be kept growing freely from the time of planting until ready for use. The manure can be placecl in trenches, the? same as for celery, and, after refilling the trench with soil, draw drills about four inches deep with the hoe, and dibble in the plants eigiht inches apart in the rows. Keep the plants well supplied with water during the dry weather. PRUNING TOMATOES. Tomatoes are now fruiting freely. Keep all side laterals closely removed, and give the plants every encouragement to develop their crop. It is at this time that manure water can bo applied with the greatest advantage. This results in the production of better crops and larger and better-matured fruit. GfeAPES TJNDER GLASS. SUMMER WORK. There are few departments of the garden that requires more careful ana persistent attention throughout the growing and fruiting season that indoor grapes, and, certainly, few that suffer more quickly from neglect. From the time the vines are started into growth, until the fruit is mature, they are under artificial treatment, and the success attained de-