The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-04-11 00:00:00

GARDRHLNG WORK FOR TEILS WEEK.

meant Gamier.
A. the time for sowing the principal crops of
end spring Broccoli and Greens has arrived, select, if
passible, ao open pies@ of ground rather poor than
rich, let the seed be sown thinly, and when the plants
are large enough to handle, prick them out in similar
soil. A atop of Globe Artiebokee should now be
planted for producing • late supply. The side shoots
should be taken from old stools, an! planted in line-,
4 feet apart and 18 inches between the plants, or
trenches may be dug 18 inches wide and the mime in
depth, and some well-decomposed manure should be
dug Into them, and the pleats put out as above,
Seedlings of Cauliflower., Cabbage', ha raised this
spring should be pricked off when large =nigh, to get
sway for final traroplanting. Sowing the main crop
of Carrots should be no longer be delayed If the ground
is in good order. Continue to make periodnal sowings
of the different culinary vegetables of which a 1110004••
lanai supply is required. Spina= should be sown once
a fortnight, and Pea, Beane, and Turnips once in
three weeks. sowings of Salads should be made with
strict regularity, =I proper attention should be paid
to protecting all kinds of seeds from the ravages of
hit& and insects. In sowing peas, it is the most
workmanlike method to put the enlace to them at
ones, as by so doing the barren appearanee of the
grated is removed, and no more trampling on it is
necessary for • long time; handset .they afford • alight
shelter to the 7011114 plant. Meir first appseranoo
above ground. If the Grope of Onions, Leeks, Fermin,
Beet, &Any, and Sooraccuere are not yet wan,
so should be no longer delayed. sowing otta
Kidney Beaus may now be made in early localities ;
the early sowing of this =del vegetable I. frequently
out of by late spring frosts, but when this happens
the ground should be left undisturbed, as that part of
the plant beneath the surface of the soil generally
throws up shouts from whisk a crop will be produced
nearly as soon se if the leaders had remained un•
injured.
Look well to reoently.tranaphinted trees and shrubs.
Do not allow anything to suffer from want of water at
the roots, but one good soaking after planting to settle
the moil will be sufficient until we have more sunshine.
The 101 l should he kept moist, bet not maturated, or
MA together by over•wateriog them at the root.
Patches of come of the more showy of the hardy
annuals should now be 'own in the meant places whole
usually exist in the herbaceous beds, and at the el
of clumps and borders in the shrubbery. Among
many kinds adapted for this purpose, I may mention
the following : —doable poppies of various oolours
lupines, swallowers, African and Fret= marigolds',
erysimain, clerk* gills, connate, silos.
imehasholtala, onophile,solana,kaulfessia, ita,not for: si
getting the old favourite, mignonette. A sufficient
quantity of caning' 'and seedlings of half.hordy
'limbers should now be potting out in May. With
such plants as cobras, maarandyea, loplicepliennuna,
calampelis,loasea and trope3oluot amariense many bare
places on the walla and trillions whim's otherwise would
be blemlshee on the general apposnases of the ph=
may be covered and made ornamental. Violets are
everybody's flowery, end to have them fine and in
abundance they require and will merit some share
of attention,'arty where they do not naturally
ettomed wall. In some eitasilons they grow so strongly
and flower so abundantly that they merely require
at this season to be taken up, parted, and re-planted,
and if kept Doe from weeds all wW go well; while in
other plebes they frequently eines mere trouble than •
bed of =cicalas or polyeatbuseh A flame on the north
sided • wall lithe most WWI insets= for preventing
the at:tasks of red spider to wUeb they an very liable,
and which =nee them be lose their foliage daring the
winter. About the beginnbig el September day should
beplasited In • (mime hem a spud mien or esenember
, where they will have blew to bosoms well 'stab-
lisbeelbefore winter. and If hilt erillated sad &Ms
d *gm it 'ABM% pod* pious aq be squids

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