THE GARDEN.

Woodville Examiner, Volume V, Issue 45, 3 April 1889, Page 2

THE GARDEN.

NOTES FOR THE MONTH. Kitchen Garden.—The first planted celery should now be fifteen inches high, in which ease carefully take, away all side shoots, and, with a trowel, draw about three inches of earth to the plants, carefully holding the leaves together, so as to prevent any earth getting into the heart of the plant; let the leaves and stems be dry—afterwards give a copious watering with soot and water. Dress asparagus bed, giving, a good salting, and a coating of well-rotted manure; point the surface with a fork. Sow and transplant cabbages and lettuces. Sow turnips, early peas, spinach, early-horn carrots, radishes, and small salading. Thin out onions, turnips, &c. 'I ..-Fruit Garden.;— Plant strawberry beds; let the rows be three feet apart, plant in the rows fourteen inches apart, and three rows only in a bed. For early purposes choose Black Prince and Keen’s seedling; for midseasons, British Q ieen, and for very late the Elton and Alpines. The runners should have been reserved from some of the earliest and strongest in October and November. Gather fruit in as it ripens, always choosing a fine dry day. Cut away the old canes from the raspberry bed, as doing so strengthens the new ones.

Flower Garden. —Plant tuberous-rooted plants, as anemones and ranunculuses; also bulbs of crocus, tulip, ixia, sparaxis, tritonia, babiana, Watsonin, hyacinth, gladiolus, reserving some for later plantin'*, so'as to have succession of bloom. Plant pipings of carnations, picotees and pinks, cuttings of pansy, sweetwilliam, antirrhinum, verbena, geranium and rpses. Layering is best performed this month. Evergreen trees may be removed; if of large size, they should have been prepared in the previous autumn, as will be described in the calendar _ for May, sow hardy annuals. This is the best month of the year to remove conifers, as fcuu ground in moist and warm, H.B.A-