GARDEN CALENDAR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 141, 7 August 1911, Page 3

GARDEN CALENDAR.

WORK FOll AUGUST. Kitchen Garden.—This will be a very busy month in the kitchen garden—sowing, planting, hoeing, weeding, etc. Sow early peas, broad beans, early horn carrot, parsnip, Jerk, mid onion. Pdas and beans require ■he land to bo well trenched. Carrots do best in a deep sandy loam, but may be well grown on almost any mil. Do not use manure; if the sail is poor, choose a spot that has bad manure applied for a previous nop, dig deep, and break the soil veil, sow thin in shallow drills from (wolvo to fifteen inches apart j if the Aunts come up too thick, thin them vhile small. Put in early potatoes utd plant out cabbage; do not spare ;ho manure, if obtainable. Sow small patachos of turnip frequently. Sow cauliflower and cabbage seed in dry

R'oathcr. Leave sufficient space between drills of'seeds so : that a line will make short work of weeds if taken in time. Sow tomato to plant out. collect all weeds. Do not burn diem : after they have been rotted ■town they will make capital manure for crops. In the majority of gallons, quantities .of material are wasted annually, and any soil, let it be ever so fertile, would be improved by die application of vegetable refuse in a prepared form. Hon manure is oftop allowed to waste many of its most valuable constituents. The proper saving of manure requires that it. should lie kept from exposure to cun and rain, and that it: ho gathered frequently, and that it lie mixed with come good absorbent as gathered. Dry loam or gypsum is excellent for this purpose, saving the volatile properties. This should be spread under the roosts, as well as mixed with the droppings after they are gathered. No manure should be allowed to go to waste. A proper saving of fertilisers is no small secret of success.

Print Garden.-—l'iantin*j; may 1 10 I continued, but should In. 1 finished 1 >y | the end ol' the first week in this month. Graft all those trees wliioli show early budding, leaving- those till lust that are late in breaking. Grafting wax may lie made thins: lilaok pitch, four parts; resin, four parts; yellow wax, two parts; tallow, one part; melt it in an carthem pot, and apply warm. All pruning; that can ho clone should now be completed. Suckers, oi ail kinds should lie removed, and planted for stocks for grafting and budding. ,Hoot-priming, ii not already done, should now be attended to without delay. Plum trees may be planted in the lower portions cf the ore-haul, as they stand the wet better than most trees. They should

bo allowed to form round-headed bushes, and will not require to be pruned. Flower Garden. —Everything should lie put in complete cider as soon as possible. Plant out amaryllis, liliunis’ gladioli bulbs; also antirrhinums, pinks, carnations, picotees, pansies, pontstemons, pelargoniums, perennial phloxes, hollyhocks, fuchsias, etc. Phloxes produce largo trnses of flowers of ail shades and colours, from the purest white to the most intense crimson, and other intermediate shades. In dry weather, and while they arc in flower, water freely. No class of plants in cultivation will produce a finer display than phloxes when they are well grown. Keep the soil well stirred round the early flowering spring bulbs. Sow a few of the early annuals in warm situations. Shrubs should now bo pruned.—“ Star Almanac.”