DUNEDIN GARDENING CLUB

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18544, 3 May 1922, Page 8

DUNEDIN GARDENING CLUB

first meeting of season. The Dunedin Gardening Club held its first meeting of the season last night, when, the schedule for the coming season was drawn up. The meeting was addressed by Mr F. 11. Hollingsworth, who dealt at length 0n several subjects of importance. He first made reference to the preparation of the ground for the next season, and dealt with rotation in cropping,, trenching, digging, manuring, and liming. Fruit tee® planting was then mentioned, after which he snoko on rhubarb growing, giving details *of the method of lifting old crowns and preparing the ground for the new beds A long discussion took place on the planting of seed potatoes. In connection with flower gardening, Mr Hollingsworth explained the method of preparing the grotilid for roses and shrubs. Ihe work for the present time was, he said, the planting out of early spring flowers. The munine of rambler roses was also touched upon. . It was a common belief, he said, that holly hedges did not grow as fast as others. This, in his opinion, was not so. If the ground was properly prepared before planting, these hedges would grow as quickly as any others. To prepare the ground properly it would be necessary to take out a trench 2ft 6in wide and 2ft deep, break up the bottom well, cover with a layer of about a foot of well rotted manure, then put back the soil and leave till planting time, which, ho considered, was about Sop-