AGRICULTURAL CLIPPINGS.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume I, Issue 25, 4 June 1892, Page 2

AGRICULTURAL CLIPPINGS.

FAUM A.ND GAUDEN.

„- . • ■■■. .JUNE.,.- : ... , - Corresponds with December in Ghvat : '■ •;£■-■ i'” Britain. Kitchen Garden. — Sow peasdwarf in rows about eighteen * inches apart; tail peas thirty-two inches apart-^----alao, beans, cabbages, cauliflower, red cabbage-for pickling, lettuces, radishes, etc. *You may risk a few " kidney potatoes if you are prepared to look out for frost, arid shelter them with fern or straw," bat unless in very dry land they are apt to fee watery if grown too early. Continue to sow potato onions, and prepare for sowing globe onions; banking and earthing up of any celery or other 'plants that require it must be attended to. With regard to keeping the land free from superfluous -water, liming slugs, and trenching, the directions for May apply for' June, but do not- on any account attempt to work your land when it is too wet. Tie up your endives with cabbage leaves. ' % Slower Garden. — The advice given for last month stands :good for June. Remember that you cannot overfeed a rose, and if»you wish a :good show of .flowers yoa must manure them. Prune them back, but with care, for different •resesi require -very different.' treatment. The perpetual roses, the china, the moss roses -and • 'other -hardy * ones, take the most pruning. 'More delicate ones require less. 'Continue to plant out hardy bulbs, crocus, narcissus, and, in dry and more sheltered places, hyacinths and anemonies, etc. r etc. Continue to transplant shrnbs and plants, and if you plant those grown in pots or tubs or that i have come to you in a ball of earth, see that the earth is not too hard and dry. This is the month to cot back, tie up, j and transplant, and to keep, the,walks and borders tidy and free from weeds. ,

The Orchard. — This month prone the trees and-gooseberries, 'jit is also usual to prune vines as soon as the leaf falls, but on this subject there are different opinions. .'lt is also usual to advocate manuring, to which the same remarks apply. Fruit trees should now be planted as their leaves fall, 1 for which purpose choose dry weather. 'It is'bad to plant in sloppy '■ ground. Plant shallow, not. more than ( one or two inches deeper than the tree was before, if that. Dig the land fine 'first, and spread the Toots very carefully out* equally-romid the trees. (Cover with we'll crumpled earth,-and;press lightly down., securing with at' least one -stake. 'Prune "down the "branches, bat be careful to preserve the roots'(unless injured), and if, you; purchase your -trees; from, a nurseryman, see that he does not prune dawn the roots, which is too apt •to be the case. The apples are the hardiest, and do with the least shelter. ' They -are also the latest to plant. /Gooseberries and currants should be .pruned and-.planted this months, and pay-strict attention to their pruning. Eemove suckers, and 1 hunt insects. 'Keep'larid dry and well-drained for winter trains. Plant strawberries.

Farm.—^Mb is ,the first: month ■of real winter weather, and usually there is much rain. Winter wheat should he sown by theend of the month, according to Borne authorities, but many northern farmers prefer> July, and even wait .till the middle of it. Much depends upon the-nature of the 'soil," the locality, and the season. In cold,vwet situations it; will do no harm to wait. Oats 1 (Tartarian) may be sown this month for a; crop; potato oats will do better a bit; later. Remember that the poorer the; soil, and the later wheat is sown, the more seed will be required. All seed wheat should be pickled in a solution of sulphate of copper (bluestone) before being sown. 'The strength ofsolution used varies J from half-pound to-©ne pound of bluestone, dissolved in five gallons of hot,water,ioa sack of wheatl Field beans should now be sown on well-manured land. Good wheat 1 land will'suit them. * ; Roots should be harvested and stored as they become ready. -Mangolds, carrots, and Wrnips will store

well between parallel rows of hurdles, eight feet apart, on dry ground, the roots being piled up ridgewise, and then Isecurely thatched. In warm, dry land,] ;where frosts are not severe,; a !patch of early Kidney, potatoes- may 'be tried, but it is very early-yet. Live fences must all be' trimmed and pruned, and new ones put' in where required. Sheep, except ewes in lamb, should»be having turnips, either sliced and < fetl 'to them, or they should be 'folded npoo them or rape. Dairy'caws "must be well looked after, especially newlycalved ones. ! Batter will be getting dearer, and it pays to feed well arid give warm shelter at night 'Forest. tree planting on all vacant ground caa proceed this month. If the gronnd has been prepared, young" hops can now be planted, and drain hop. fields "where necessary, making drains at least 3ft. 6in deep. Osiers may be planted in suitable localities for selling 7 tof basket? \ makers.