NEW ZEALAND GARDENING. 15 



Stake tall growing plants as they advance. Ordinary 

 bedding plants will now be making strong growth. Clip box 

 edgings, weed and roll walks, mow lawns and grass plots, and 

 save seeds of choice annual and other plants as they ripen. 



JANUARY. 



Kitchen Garden. Clear off all crops as they become 

 matured, and prepare the ground for others ; hoe between 

 growing crops ; and gather seeds and herbs as they arrive at 

 maturity. Make a sowing of early cabbages towards the 

 end of the month for planting out in Autumn and Spring ; 

 sow kidney beans for late use ; sow lettuces thinly, to stand 

 without transplanting, and onions to draw young ; also early 

 sorts of peas to come in late ; spinach and turnips for a full 

 crop. Sow radishes and small salading once in ten days ; 

 plant out celery, broccoli, cauliflowers, lettuces, endive, 

 borecole, and early and late cabbages for full crops. 

 Choose showery weather for planting. Earth up celery 

 encasing them in three-inch tile pipes is said to be a clean 

 method of blanching; raise and dry onions, shalots and garlic, 

 and store ; cut herbs when in flower, and dry in the shade ; stop 

 tomatoes, and do not allow the leaves to shade the fruit ; 

 take up early potatoes and dry and green them in the sun 

 for future planting ; top beans ; keep scarlet runners staked ; 

 and thin late-sown onions, carrots, turnips, and beet. 

 Some of the most vigorous shoots of the cucumbers and 

 vegetable marrows will require pegging down, or bits of 

 brick or stone put on them to keep them down and cause 

 them to root. In dry weather, water abundantly, so as to 

 keep them in vigorous health, and prevent mildew ; watering 

 should always be done after sunset in warm weather. 



Vinery. Day temperature, 80 to 85 ; night, 70. 

 Remove secondary shoots ; stop laterals on late vines ; tie 

 out and thin the berries, as directed last month ; keep up a 

 steady moist heat, with free air, but do not syringe. 

 Towards the end of the month or sooner, if the crop be 

 removed from the early vines, admit abundance of air day 

 and night, to harden the wood. 



Hardy Fruit Garden. Tie and secure the shoots 

 of grafts ; cut down the strongest to three or four eyes ; 



