The Garden.

Otago Witness, Issue 1581, 4 March 1882, Page 7

The Garden.

WORK FOB THE WEEK.

Kitchen Gabden.— Excepting the latest sorts, ail potatoes should be lifted, as they will be starting into a second growth, to the injury of the tubers. The crops cf second early potatoes will be generally light, as their growth was checked by the dry weather, and the rains* came too late to benefit them. Late potatoes promise a large yield by-and-bye, and as the main crop is the most important for winter and early spring use, the partial failure of the second aorta is not much felt. There being plenty of vacant ground now from which exhausted crops have been cleared, if any cabbage plants are available they should be planted out at once. When the soil is dry a good earthing up may be given to celery. Remove all lateral shootß, and atop the leaders of tomatoes. Any foliage shading the fruit may also be removed. The principal work will cousiet of digging awl trenching vacant plots, and in keeping the ground free from weed*. PiiOWBB Gabden. — Tho budding of rosaa may be oomnunoed at. once, and with grantor certainty of smcceija thm at any other period of

the year. Graftmtf may »I»0 be done, theunion of stock andeeton taking place rapidly under the inn tonce of tfa- autumn growth. Zonale pelagoniams, intended «fr be lifted and potted for koepin* through ther wmter should be cut back immediately, and the enMlng* utilised for propagation. As tho wood w generally oappy, all the leaves may ba taficn on\ «x«ept those at the point, aud the cuttirg* may remain for a day or two, so that they rmy ba Wiallf dried, and that a akin m»y £c formed at the baser. These cuttiugs should be put in boxes containing light sandy sail, rather dry, and watering Bhould be avoided until callus is formed Mid route thrown out. -Bxceatf of moisture with all sucoulent euttluga is tn<& cauße of failure, because there aw no roots to ibsorb it. But with suoh thiugsr aa helwtrope*, ealvias, coleno, calceolaria, and »geratum tue reverse is the ca*«, an they require a considerable amount off moisture in the soil and iv the atmosphei* to induce them to root freely. Any large plant* which it is desirable to lift and pot for winter ilm.ininß should be cut round with a sharp ipad.i a forcnigM previous to lifting. Gbeenhodse.— Pelargoniums of the zonal *«« ioa a iould he, kept in fom-iflch pots, tu> enablo them to fl -wer Ireely in winter. Lhey must ako bfi kept out of doors in the full sun, ,vod any blooni budfa showing should bo piaofteJ. •mt. Thoae u&oM plants for winter work, the Unuvwdias, are now grown in cold fraaae« without pots, to produce large plants, rufcjr <U not thrive in small pots, the growth bauig glow. Wheu required for bloomiug the plants can be lifted and potted, kept cfoea for a few days until they are established. Tueae plants bloom better than those in pots, a frue growth being the chief point to aim at if a good Woom is desired. Prick out Chines* primulas- w*ea they are large enough to haudle into pans wr pots, aud give a shift to those requiring it* using a rough compost of turfy loam, leaf mould, broken charcoal, and eand.