Gardeners' Calendar for January.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2013, 5 January 1887, Page 2

Gardeners' Calendar for January.

Flower Garden.—Watering, shading, trerng up, and training plants bonstitute a large portion of the work to he done this month. Tie dahlias, chrysanthemums, and all her. baceous plants that will sutler from wines : take up bulbs as they ripen, such os anemones and ranunculus, aud store them away in a cool place, but not damp. Sow antirrhinums and sweet williams for next season's (lowering. Transplant, when a favorable opportuuity serves alter ram, annuals utrd bieunials lor Iste doweling ; give a little shading as it greatly assists Ibe plant in rooting Later Hie best varieties of caruations, piootees. peiumas, and verbenas. Gatin’) .-tens of -iipinor kinds of annuals and hrriiactoua plaute. and sec that a geneial neatness prevail-.

Fruit Garden.--Remove all cross branches in fruit trees that would require to be cut out at the. winter’s pruning, so that the reuw icg branches will get the benefit ; i> mo" ( Hi j ackers, imp u clean stem, anti uc head, s., as the f.uu may get • lnU . 1 rune out the centre of (*■ 1R( ... ~ not already done, and ,er Th , u the fruit on apple » trees wnere necessary, as >t w ol the trees lor the to)’ i- . i / .UVMD2 WftBOU. . v A‘‘j Le “ —Sow "i the hrst week, rTI -sbbage, kale. BiusseU sprouts, a _ , and autumu giant, or Italian ® aUi! * “ ar, in good soil. Cauliflowers should .ceive as little check as possible at the tuna of planting, and grown in the richest of soil, with Jiberai watering' during dry wealbeK Make the last sowing of peas. Seeds should be soaked at this time of year before sown ; if the soil be dry, the drills should be saturated with water before sowing. Take top* off broad beans, the result will be finer pod* and earlier. Keep tomatoes well thinned out, and give them water , they arc naturally a thirsty plant. Keep the hoe at woik to prevent weeds from seeding, have seed as they ripen.

A meeting ol the Fite Brigade S(K>rt> Com. fiUHee fill beheld pn Friday evening at 7,dg