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HOCKIXGS' GARDEN MANUAL. 



Farm, — Sow vetches, barley, oats, wheat, lucerne 

 and other grasses. Cut tobacco. Pick cotton. Earth 

 up potatoes. 



JUNE. 



Kitchen Garden. — At this season no colonial-grown 

 cabbage seed should be sown, as the plants will run to 

 seed just as they are ' hearting. English cabbage seed 

 will not run the first season, and should therefore be 

 exclusively used until September, when the danger 

 will be past. Give new asparagus beds the second 

 digging. Hoe well among the growing crops. Trans- 

 plant horse-radish, eschallots, rhubarb, strawberries, 

 seakale, &c. Dig over old rhubarb, seakale, and 

 asparagus beds, giving them plenty of good rotten 

 manure. Sow brocoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage ; also, 

 red cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce, endive, peas, English 

 beans, radish, salsafy, scorzonera. Water- cresses may 

 be planted in trenches as celery, and will grow well in 

 the neighborhood of Brisbane during the winter and 

 spring months. Dig abundance of well-rotted manure 

 into the bottom of the trench, sift a little fine soil over 

 it, dibble the cuttings in at a foot apart, filling up the 

 holes lightly with rich mould, and give the whole a 

 good watering from a fine rose watering-pot. In a 

 month or six weeks they can be cut, when the bed 

 should have a thin dressing of manure all over, and a 

 good watering. Repeat the treatment each cutting, 

 watering well in dry weather. 



Orchard. — In early situations prune grape vines, the 

 several sorts of China peach trees, and other early 

 fruits. Transplant fruit trees, giving a little protection 

 in situations exposed to the dry westerly winds ; sup- 

 port them with stakes where necessary. Cover bunches 

 of bananas and tropical fruit trees where there is any 

 risk of injury from frost. In preparing new land for 

 planting, see that drainage is amply provided for to the 

 depth of three or four feet. 



