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TAPIOCA. — Grate the Cassava. Wash it by puttinsj in a cloth and pour- 
in.^ clean water on it fill all the siareli is washed out. The water containing 
the starch must be ser down till all the starch lias settled, and the water at 
the top is quite clear. Decant the water, leaidng the starch at the bottom. 
Wash again with clean water, allow it to settle, and pour off the water. 
Take up the starch in lumps, and put it to quail a little in the siui. Then 
mash it up fine, and sieve it. Put a largo baking-iron on the fire, and bake 
it in cakes, not too thick. The iron should not bo too hot, as the cakes must 
not be baked brown. Then dry well in the sun, and beat iti a mortar, coarse 
or fine as required. If sieved, ic will give two qualities, fine aud coarse, — 
Ex. Jamaica Dot. Bulletin, 1892. 
THIiS'NING FEUIT. — If we were not aware of the fact, a gbmcc at the 
bulk of aruit brought into the towns for sale would at once show that little 
or no altention w^as paid in Ciueenslancl to this most important operation. 
The exhaustion consequent upon the prodiiedon of seed is a chief eaiivse of 
the decav ot plants. This explains why fruit trees are weakened or rendered 
temporarily unproductive, and even killed, by being allowed to ripen too 
large a crop ot fruit, or to “over-beMr” themselves, as it is termed. Will 
amateurs, who we often hear boasting that their trees are breaking clown w ith 
fruit, bear this ill mind ? An English writer on the subject says truly — 
“ Ihe thinning oi fruit is one of tlic mostiraportant operations of the garden, 
though one of the least generally practised. It should he done, however, 
w ith a bold and fearless iiand : and the iierfection of that whicli is allowed 
to remain will amply reward the grower, in harvest time, for tlie apparent 
sacriL’ce made. iWt he will not reap his reg ard only in this year, for the 
trees, tlms kept un weakened by over-produelioii, -will be able to maturi? 
their wood, and deposit their store of sap in their vessels, so absolutely 
necessary for their fruitfulness next searon. 
TEEiN CHIl!s G. — In a garden this is always necessary, so a simple 
mode of performing the work may bo given. Open a trench about 2 ft. 
wide, one full spit, and the shovelling deep, and rerao^ c the soil from it to 
where it is intended to finish the piece ; then put in the dung, and dig it in 
with the bottom spit in the trench ; if the ground is very liard, break up 
witli a pick before putting in the dung; then fill up this tretich with the top 
s])it of the second, treating it in like manner, and so on. Tlie advantages of 
this plan of working the soil are — The good soil is retained at tjio top, an 
important consideration where the subsoil is poor or bad ; the bottom soil is 
enriched aud loosened for the penetration aud U'nirishmcnt of the roots, and, 
allowing them to descend deeper, they are not so liable to sufTer from 
drought in dry wenther ; strong soil is rendered capable of absorbing more 
moisture, and yet I'emains dry at the surface, by the \va ter pas.sing down 
more rapidly to the subsoil, and it ensures a tliorougli shifting of the soil. 
TETJNCTIEONS. — Tiiose are ofisots from the base of troe-stumps, and 
are obtained in the following manner : —In the T^ropagation of the Olive and 
similar trees, an old tree is cut off near the base of the stem, which latter 
being left in the ground will usually send up slionts from the collum below 
the surfat-'e of the soil ; these are allowed to groTV until their sterns iiave 
attained a diameter of 1 or 2 in., when they arc each cut off at about 2 ft. 
from the ground, and witli an axe each is severed with a portion of the butt 
from the old stump. Each of these ofisets is termed a truncheon, and can 
at once be planted where a tree is required. 
TUEF. — Tnrfs should be cut as thin as possible, for if tlie ground is ' 
properly prepared to receive them the herbage will form fresh rootlets in 
the fresh soils ; besides, a thin sod is more elastic, and thus is more evenly 
beaten dowm. 
By Autliorily ; EDiiUND Gregory, Government Printer, William street, Brisbane. 
