The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-02-05 00:00:00

GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR
FEBRUARY

[Zxtraciai Iron "Sutton's Assainers' Guide in Horticul-
tun ," 1878. February.]

The work of February is to be carried on as weather
Eterraits, but with greater activity and more confidence,
for the winter is, we bop,. pretty well gone. Earnest
digging, liberal manuring, and scrupulous cleansing
are the tasks that stand forward in the work of the
month as of prominent importance. Many weeds,
grounded especially, will now be coming into dower,
and if allowed to seed, will make enormous work to
keep them down. It is well, however to remember
—what few people do remember, because the fact has
not been pressed upon their attention—that weeds id
all kinds, so long as they are not in flower are really
useful en manure when dug into the soil. Therefore,
a weedy patch is not of necessity going to ruin hut
if the weeds • e not stopped in time they spread by
their seeds and mar the order and decency of the
garden. Dig them in, and their decay will nourish the
next crop. If you practice early sowing and aim at
the earliest possible produce of everything, you must
be always ready to protect by means of litter, spruce
branches, mats, and atudi like as circumstances
require. Let not the weatherarlelirise you the
prudent gardener is al.waYs all points
t
knowing not what an hour may bring forth. lined
the January Calendar before proceeding further with
this; and in respect of what remains undone spare the
necessity of reminders here.
BEANS. Sow the main crop from the middle to the
end of the month. If any were sown in frames last
month, take care to harden them cautiously prepara-
tory to planting_ • fur if caught by a sharp frost,
every plant will
BROCCOLL perish.l:Valctieren on • warm sheltered
border, and at the same time a pinch in • frame.
With such an important crop at this time of year, you
ought to have at leant two strings to your bow.
CABBAGE may be sown in plenty, though in cold
districts his as yet early for the main sowing of large
sorts. Where plantations stand rather thick, draw Ss
fast as possible from amongst them every alternate
plant, to allow the remainder ample space for hea,ting.
It is well to remember that the smallest and loosest
hearts of Immature Cabbages make a more delicate
dish than the most complete white hearts ever known,
For our own eating give us the smallest Cabbage,
green all through; but when we grow for market, we
must have balk and substance. Sow Pickling Cabbage
at the end yf the month. _

CARROT. Sow rorcing French horn on Warea
border. Too early yet for Largar sorts.
GARLIC to be planted In rows nine inches apart,
the separate rows six inches apart and three inches
deep. Rich mellow soil.
LETTUCE. Sow again on warm borders and In
frames Plant out In mild weather any that are fit
from frames and hot.beds, making sure first that they
are well-hardened.

MUSTARD will be required for salads. Sow the
best white in preference to rape and substitute, that
are grown for market. It is easy work with • frame
to have mu•tard at any time. but many amall *owing,
are better than large ones, which only result in a feast
and a fast, or rather in waste to-day, and want to-
morrow__

--PARSLEY to be sown in the latter part of the
month ; it will soon be wanted in quantity.
PEAS to be sown plentifully. Those already up in
• bad plight should be dug in and the rows sown
again. It is worthy of note that if peas are thoroughly
picbed and starved by hard weather, they rarely pay
r the ground they occupy • so, if they go wrong,
sacrifice them without height:don and begin again.
Where early rows are doing well take care of them,
and put sticks to them at once, as the sticks afford
considerable protection, and they may be rendered
additionally protective by strewing on the windward
side small hedge clipping, and other such light dry
stuff.
POTATOES may be planted in quantity ; if the first
early growth of haulm is &stayed by frost, it is soon
renewed, and in the end the crop is little the worse for
' it. Potato disease usually brake out in autumn, and
therefore early planting is • safe panacea, for it minims
early ripening of the crop, and consequently it is ripe
and harvested before the time when dosage occurs.
RHUBARB should be taken up and divided and
planted again in rich moist soil, every separate piece
to have only one good eye. 1.30 not gather this mama
from the new plantation, but always have • piece one
year old to supply the kitchen. This method will
ensure sticks to be proud of, not only for size. but for
colour and flavour. The small high-coloured aorta are
the hest for home use.
SAVOYS are orized for size as much ea for their
excellent flavour when well frosted. Now, to have
large Savoys, they must have a long maim of growth;
therefore sow as soon as possible, weather permitting,
on a rich me/low seed-be and be ready to prick them
out before they become crowded.
sustoris. It is not generally known that when
well-grown the clumps are bigger than a man's fist
and each separate bulb thicker than • walnut. To do
them well they must have time • so plant early, on
rich ground, in rows one foot aps:rt and the bulb six
inches asunder. Press them into the earth deep
enough to hold them firm, but not to be quite buried.
SPINACH. Sow the round-eeeded plentifully; if
you overdo it, the extra crop can be dug in as manure,
and in that way will pay sufficiently.
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required, for presently there may lie such an excess of
_

To ILIAC • Hal TOG.
Take an ordinary hen's egg, break a small hole in
the small end, about threiseighths of aa inch in
diameter, extract the contents, and, after it is
thoroughly clear inside, fill it with powdered slack
lime, taton it in order to make it contain It..
much possible After it I. full, "alit up with
piaster Par and hare • nest egg which
cannot be distin by the hen from the other
eggs, and one which will not crack, like other eggs,
by being frozen.—Sciaitigc America's.

BIRTH&
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of a sou.
Jmnati SS. et Vellthlll. dlloormleaon Mr.
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John Jeffreys. ot Lawitor Lades. ot a heeerr 10, at Lamers*, wsurgeeintsou.h. tits wile of the
Rev. IL D. J of a saw
heoare 311, st the trite ot Mr 14. 2.011/61141,
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MARRIAGES.
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rtaysztirointeirhtrooLane Brm. try. onr!y daneter oly 4. Lama tt, Drew aod
,i....ry a at St. Michael's Char* North Emmington,
by the Rea. &heard Ear Oro. Brownaell.
yeoman. or Teddiourton. Oxfordahlres,to tanittlaariatta,
eldeet daughter ot Mr. 11 Moore, of "mom
DRAMS. yamiary M. at (Magpie Marsh Farm, Essyslaster. Mr.
John Caddy. dairstmeo, mad gt.
Jammu 11l W Mather. for 35 rem Wad Pew
keeper at Hanford, Mai:Afar& a 854 75,
January 11. at Le ' sr St Unload Btri•t. Weymouth.
Kr. John Arnold. formerly atamoimaaster. of the London
and South Western Itallaraimained 44.
hailer, W. at Mafia
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deemed bad a.= wares sot quite IS COMM&
Dr. John Omsk VAL. ernsetinee editor of the
"Athesows," sad suotemor to
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direekeiai chair at " Noel and querina" has expired. in
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