WORK FOR THE WEEK.
THE 'FLOWER GARDEN. - V-x Gladioli corms may be lifted as '•soon as the foliage turns yellow. Store in a dry shed and clean a few weeks later. • Spring flowering bulbs should have been planted before now. Bulbs now left out of the ground will soon deteriorate. Rose cuttings may now be planted. Take firm growths, cut just above a bud and just below one. Plant out primula malacoides, violas, stocks, wallflowers, and sweet williams. Sew hardy annuals in sunny positions. Replant carnation layers in welldrained soil and give a light dusting of Time. ■ THE-VEGETABLE GARDEN. Plant out cabbage and cauliflower. Make another sow.ing of early carrots, spinach and turnips. Sow onions for transplanting in spring; , ' Thin out crops of seedling carrots ' and turnips before they grow to any '• extent. Plant out strawberry plants, but first make sure that the soil has been deeply dug, . thoroughly pulverised, and manured. Prepare ground for planting all kinds of fruit trees. Don’t allow plots to remain idle. If it is not proposed to plant immediately, dig the ground and sow a green crop for turning under.
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Waipa Post, Volume 48, Issue 3468, 19 May 1934, Page 3
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