Garden Calendar.

Southland Times, Issue 11750, 1 June 1891, Page 3

Garden Calendar.

JUNE.

Tbis month may be generally calculated on At the most tempeituous of the twelve; Gales of westerly wind, accompanied with hail, sleet, and drivine raiD, beicg ita usual characteristic. Kitchen garden work >• now entirely suspended. Ail preparations for Spring should now be completed, to that advantage may be taken of any fine weather that may occur to further the operation of transplanting and removal of trees. If any opportunity occur sedite seed may now be ■own— sweet briar, hawthorn, gone, and broom of various ipeciei.

Winter pruning on established tress should now bs performed. It v impossible to give accurate directions for pruning in print, A letfon from a scientific hand it worth more than all that can be written on the subject. The operation couists simply in cutting out certain shoots or branches of a plant for the purpose of modifying its form, increasing its fertility, and stimulating particular parts to a greater vigour. A plant may be made to Mtnrue almost any form if it is regulated and frequently pruned from an early stage.

Mulch all newly planted trees; it matters not how cotrse or Krone the manure is for a mulch; and it is the very best method of manuring trees. Many amateurs fall into error by putting manure to the roots of trees when planting, avoid this, and resort to mulching with good stable manure