THINNING OUT.

Otago Witness, Issue 1382, 25 May 1878, Page 20

THINNING OUT.

Whether seedlings are hoed out to thin them, or planted out to grow, the distances, should be attended to. For instance, onions should be four to six inches apart ; turnips, carrots, and winter spinach, six to eight inches ; parsnips and beet-root, nine inches. In planting out, lettuce should be a foot apart, cabbage, eighteen inches; cauliflower and lar^Q

broccoli, twenty-four inches ; dwarf potatoes, nine inches in the row, and eighteen from row to row ; tall potatoes, twelve inches in the row ; and twenty-four inches from row to row ; dwarf peas, two to three feet apart ; tall peas, five to six feet ; broad beans, two feet ; French beans, two feet ; scarlet runners, six feet; Bummer, spinach, four inches in a row, a foot from row to row, if broadcast, six inches' asparagus, twelve inches. It is said that 'water-lilies may be raised about 'one's house by the following method : Sink in the ground the half of an" old cask, and cover the bottom with peat and swamp mud, and then fill with water. Dig the lily roots early in the pring, and then place th em in the earth Bt'the bottom of the tub. A gentleman *ho has tried the experiment has a ■w mber-of lilies in bloom. 11 Number of Plants fob a Rod of ovnd (viz., sixteen feet and a half G^uare). — Six inches apart, 1069 plants ; iqight inches, 612 plants ; ton inches, 392 ©plants j twelve inches, 272 plants ; fifteen inches by ten, 261 plants ; 30 by 12, 108 plants ; 30 by 18, 72 plants ; 30 by 24, 55 plants ; 30 by 30, 43 plants ; 36 by 30, 38 plants. A,t the British Muaeum and Kew a «sttxture of Gum Tragacanth and Gum Arabic' (the former dissolved in the latter), in about equal parts, is used for mounting plants ; but very coriaceous specimens are secured with glue at the last-named establishment, while in the former the stems and ends of branches are usqaUy also secured by straps. "Amongst J the most profitable crops 6£ the on field or farm, as well as in, gardens, is fruit ; the profits of production, after the cost is deducted, are said to be far larger than for either corn or. meat. > : ., As soon as onions show sign of completing growth, they should 'at once be pulled up, or they will commence to make freßh roots, which injures their keeping properties^