Gardeners' Calendar for November.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1899, 8 November 1886, Page 2

Gardeners' Calendar for November.

Flower Garden.—Plant oat dahlias and chrysanthemums for autumn flowering.) Mark the most perfect plants and flowers oi annuals for seed saving. By this insane strains are improved for their floral beauty. Support elender stemmed herbaceous plants. The bedding oat of amaranthas, ireeines, and other tender plants, should be {flanted out the second week, and give them plenty of water and ebade should dry weather oon. tinne until the plants are thoroughly estabtablished. Avoid merely wettiog the soil, which is too commonly tbs practice. Saturate the ground thoroughly, when very dry, with water, or give none at all. Take up flowering bnlbe as the leaves deoay. Peg down petunias and other trailing plants. Plant oat any batches of seedlings, not already done, on a showery day, and prese the soil well to their roots. If roses are mulched, with manure water, it makes them more healthy. This is the secret of their resisting the green fly. Frnit Garden.—Where there are any healthy peach or nectarine trees, stray rests should be pinched oat and atray laterals pinched back; it does not injore thorn by this mods oi treatment, as pruning invariably does ia spring. Give fruit trees an overhaul, and disbud any misplaced shoot*. Remove all bads (gradually) below the heed of young trees, and watch for the first appearance of blight on apple trees, and remove it at once with neatefoot oil, tobacco water, lime water, or urine ; any large trees that are badly effected, it will pay better to uproot them, if there are other apple trees near leas subject to blight. Where fruit has act too thick, thin out the smallest. Watch the progress during the summer months in (hie department, ascertain cense* and effect#, and act accordingly for beet results. Kitchen Garden.—lf the weather should be showery, as it usually is this month, planting ont cauliflowers, cabbage, eatery, and spring sown onions, if needed, ehonld be done with despatch. Sow broeoli, plant out cucumbers, marrows, Ac. Give water oad shade till well rooted. Sow French beans of all kinds. Draw the earth to, and stick advancing oropa of pees Give rhubarb and strawberry bade all the aeap soda, after washing.