The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-03-24 00:00:00

trountrp Miscellany.

CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK.

0111311110011.—Celoals 'pleats and 0. Outpost Ars
elegant plants for summer and autumn decoration, and
lf well-grown they will oontinu• in good condition for
months. Seeds may now be sown, and when they ars
large enough to handle, may be potted off singly. A
good compost to grow them in is light loam and peat,
equal parts; • little rotten dung and sand may be
added. Cooksoombe are also very pretty. and may be
treated the seine am oralosiss. They grow beat If sown
and grown In a cucumber frame until the end of May.
Afterwards they will grow well in the greenhouse.
Give air on mild daye. Plants will now require more
water. Gremdly may now be troublesome on soft.
wooded planter. Fumigate with tobacco-paper, taking
oars to have the foils'. dry.
OILAVIL Watts should now be put in good order.
Old walks may be turned over with a spade to the depth
of 2 Inches. By this means they will appear as if
newly made: In making new walks it is important to
have them dry at the bottom, by leaving 2 feet of
brick rubbish and small stones, oust which the gravel
may be placed. This will keep them dry.
KITCMIN GanDlN.—This le • good season for making
new plantations of Strawberries. In preparing the
ground for them It is necessary to hay t ,itrenehed or
deeply dug, making use of plenty of `, ood manure.
1 They may be planted In rows about 2 feet apart. Make
the ground firm before planting. The sharp weather
of last week has been trying for cucumber plants In
dung frames. Keep the temperature op by means of
fresh dung linings. The temperature should never get
much below 60.. Spier the plants early in the
afternoon of bright days. The temperature of the water
must be the same as the frame. Attend to the protec-
tion of wall trees, as advised last week. Tk• unusually
severe weather has during the last few days put a stop
to all operations of planting or sowing, but with •
favourable ol ange these should be proceeded with se
fast as possible. Make • moderate sowing of Cauli-
flowers, early Brocoolls, Savoys, and Brussels Bprouta,
to @noosed these sown under glass. Too much cannot
be said in praise of Veitch's Autumn Giant Ceuliflower.
This sown ones a month up to the end of May will give
• supply hem September to the end of Deeember. The
geseral planting of early kinds of Potatoes should now
be proceeded with, the early and dwarf growing kinds
only should be planted within the garden. We usually
pleat 2 feel 8 inches to 3 feet apart, and after forking
between and earthing up the Potatoes, put out the
main erop of Borecoles, Savoys, and early Seamen.
between. Look over and fill any vacancies that may
occur smoog Cabbage and Letterer, and use the hos
freely among these on favourable es:melons so as to
cheek any attempt of weeds to obtain • footing. Straw-
berries, if manured and treated as directed last autumn,
should now be trimmed over, and useless or decayed
leaves rimmed, afterwards bade( over and raking
down the spasm between the planta. When the ground
has been well prepared before planting, Strawberries
are better for not having the ground disturbed between
the roots. In the forcing department any spire pits
may now be planted with French Beene, to succeed the
pot mop , whish are bat disoontinued In houses after
the end of next month, as It it dlicult to keep down
red spider where fire•beat is regulate* to mature 1,1:4
more permanent crops in the same house. Tomato.,
now strong, in 7 or 8-inch pots, should be plaited in
fruiting pots of 13 to 14 inehes diameter ; for °outpost
use two-thirds good turfy loam to cite-third well deeom-
posed manure: pot Arlo, and place the plants in as
favourable a position for light as possible, in • tempers.
lure of 50° to 60°. Those pleats more reoently sown
• and now fit to handle should be pricked off, singly or in
, threes, in small pots, and kept growing steadily Os, so
as to get good strong plants in 6-loch pots by the
middle of May, when they should be gradually
t hardened off for outdoor planting. Conticued sites
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Wm to pricking off Into I,xer or frames young Celery
intended for mein early mops, and sow under glass for
I • summon. Cauliflowers, bruseels apron* lettuce,
I,he, sown early, should now be encouraged by gentle
fI watering., and the more forward should be hardened
I 1 for a few days before planting out.— William