The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-06-04 00:00:00

EXTRACTED FROM 'SUWON'S AMATEURS'
GUIDE IN HORTICULTURE," 1878.
JUNE.

In • considerable measure the crepe will now Like
care of themselves, and we may consider the chief
anxieties and activities of the season over. Our noter,
therefore, will now be more brief. But we do not
counsel the cultivator to " rest and be thankful," for
it is better for him to work, but he must be thankful
all the same if he would be happy in his healthy and
entertaining employuient. Watering and weeding are
the principal labours of this month, and both must be
pursued with diligence. Where systematic irrigation
with sewage can be carrieo on, the mar wonderful
results may be expected, but ordinary watering, where
every drop ha. to be dripped and carried. la often
injurious rather than beneficial, for the simple reason
that it is only half done. In such cases we should
advise the cultivator to abstain from giving water..
long as ',crib's, and then to give it in abundance,
watering only a entail plot every day in order to
saturate the ground, and taking a week or more to go
over a piece which 'would be dose in a day by mare
surface dribbling..
ASPARAGUS should not be cut after the Mh.
Manure water will do greet things for asparagus now,
and a dressing of salt may be given with advantage.
BEANS may yet be sown, but as they are not much
In request in the letter part of the sears, • small sow-
ing will probably star.
flltr,C'OLl to be planted out at every opportunity.
In the first week sow for cutting next April and May.
CABBAGE.—Towards the end of the month sow •
good breleith of small cebbagee and coleworte They
will be immensely valuable to plant out as the summer
crops are cleared away.
CAULIFLOWERS to be sown now where they are
to remain, and of course to be thinned to a proper
distaace in due time. Any that are planted out now
(min eeed-beds must have water, and be shaded during
mid-day for a week.
CELERY to be planted out without loos of time, in
showery weather, ifisissible, but if the weather is hot
and dry, shade and give water. Pee-sticks laid across
the trenches will give shade enough with very little
trouble.

dliablIBERS FOR PICKLING may be sown on
rid/ea:INKY BEANS.—Dwarfs and runners should
still be sown f r late use.

LETTUCE to be sown and parted at every oppor.
tunity. A few rows of large Coe varieties should be
sown in trenches prepared es for celery, and there be
thinned and allowed to stand. They will form fine
hearts, and be valued at the time when lettuces are

ONIONS to be sown for salading. Forward beds of
large sorts to be thinued in god time. The best
onions for keeping ere those of moderate aim. perfectly
ripened: therefore severe 0 inning of such sorts as
Improved Reading, James's, Blood Red, and Dancer's
should be avoided.

PKAS may still be sown. The second early sorts
will pay well if the season is favourable, but the lint
earlies will be more sure,.. one or two showers will
carry them throudi inattuity. See Dote on peas in
calendar for last month.

"1-IliNli'z3-WaTi,.;:o-wn in variety and in quantity
aftsr Mideummer-day. It is a good plan to sow on
welt prepared ground, and to put a sprinkle f artificial
manure in the drill with the seri By hastening the
early growth of the plant the fly is kept in check; in
fact, it is as a rule only the plantation starved by
drought or on an ill-prepared soil that the fly is likely
to destroy outright.