CALENDAR FOR JUNE.

Otago Witness, Issue 444, 2 June 1860, Page 5

CALENDAR FOR JUNE.

KITCHEN GARDEN.

Last month's operations may be continued ; if the ground be not too wet, trench, dig, and ridge; in^ mild weather, transplant and prune — indeed", this is the lest month for transplanting ; and in frosty weather, get dung on the ground. All kinds of fruit trees may be planted, also oaks, elms, pinasters, Scotch lirs. poplars, laburnum, and hollies ; Cape brooms ; English, Spanish, and Portugal brooms. Transplant thorns, privets, sweet brier, and native shrubs. This is a gooS month for sowing gorse, an onnce to a chain : or raise and transplant on a bank when a year old, about a foot apart. Asparagus roots may be planted in rows 18 inches wide, and 9 inches apart in the row, covered with 6 inches of manure. Rhubarb rroott t may also be planted 30 inches between the rows, and 18 inches apart, covered with 6 inches of manure. Onions (potafoe), may be planted in deep drills, in beds 3$ feet ivide, with 4 rows in each) and 9 inches from set to set. Cabbages and CauliI flowers, autumn sown, may be planted out. ' I ruurr garden. Vine, .Peach, and Apricot roots .«honld be mulched with dung. FLOWER GAItDEK. All plants and flowers, of whose hardiness iherd is any doubt, should have a mulching of light litter or leaves above their rooU, lightly covered wish soil, to prevent thei; 1 being blown away. ! TARM. i Wheat should be sown this month in stubble, turnip, or potatoe laud; in low lying and wet soil early last month would havo been better, so that the furrows might carry oft the wpAci; in which c<;se the furrow should be shovelled to the centre [of the ridge. Cleanse ditches ; litter the stockyard ,' , keep open land drains— a. most important consideration in clay lands. Put the boar to the sow. Repair roads, and employ some of the long evenings in ascertaining how your accounts stand.