Aprin 15, 1906 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
plants available may be transplanted if weather 
Conditions are favorable. 
Cabbage, Cauliflower, Brussels Sprouts, and 
Savoy may be treated in the same manner as 
_ the broccoli. All the seedlings of these should 
be carefully transplanted, and afterwards effort 
should be made to keep them growing without 
a stop, especially the cauliflowers and broccoli. 
Celery—A very little seed may be sown, for 
but few plants are likely to be required at a 
time. Any well grown plants on hand may be 
transplanted to land which has been specially 
prepared by very heavy manuring. A great deal 
of water will be required for celery should dry 
Weather prevail. Celery plents which have 
hearly attained their full growth may be earthed 
up, or their stems blanched by any effective 
means the grower may please to adopt. 
Cress and Mustard—Sow a little seed to keep 
a supply going, and water well if the weather is 
Endive — Sow a little seed and plant out 
seedlings already raised.. Use abundance of 
manure, and grow the plants as speedily as pos- 
sible, or else they will not be so tender and 
crisp, nor so well flavored, than if they were 
allowed to grow slow. 
Herbs—These useful vegetables should re- 
ceive the attention they deserve. Seed may be 
sown in seed bed, boxes or pots, where the seed- 
lings can be carefully attended to when they 
comeup. Plants available maybe planted out if 
the weather is favorable. Large overgrown 
plants may be taken up, divided and the best 
parts planted. 
Leek —This is a good time of season to sow 
largely of seed. Sow in rows in seed-bed and 
transplant when the seedlings aro 6 inches in 
height or even larger. The soil should be made 
yery rich, and it should also be kept quite moist 
during the growth of the plants. The use of 
liquid manure pretty frequently is advisable. 
Peas—In the cool parts of the State peas may 
be sown if the weather is not over dry. 
‘Radish—Sow a little seed now and then to 
keep up a supply cf young radishes for use. 
Sea Kale—Sow a little seed in seed bed. 
Spinach—Sow seed in drills, about 18 inches 
apart, in good well-drained soil. As soon as the 
seedlings are large enough, thin out well. 
Shallots and Garlic—If cloyes can be ab- 
tained plant out in rows about foot apart, The 
ground should be well dug and well manured 
before planting. Set the shallot and the garlic 
quite firm in the soil, and cultivate well between 
the rows as those plants grow. 
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ArreR storing late apples and pears the most 
important work here will be preparing ground 
for planting. This cannot be done too early, 
as the soil improves considerably after being 
exposed to the mellowing influences of heat and 
air. Where the goil is at all poor or shallow 
the whole should be trenched at least 18 in. 
deep, and plenty of decayed manure should be 
dug in to the full depth. Bonedust would also 
be a great assistance in poor soils if thrown into 
the bottom as the trenching proceeds. Orange 
and lemon trees may be planted up to the end 
of the month, and will be found to succeed 
better as a rule than those planted in the 
spring, and this involves much less labor in 
watering. If planted at this time and given 
one good watering, they would require no 
further attention until late in the following 
spring, by which time they would be fairly 
established. In preparing ground for fruit trees 
a distinction should be made between those 
kinds that require extra good soils and those 
that do fairly well in soil of a medium quality. 
For instance, the apricot, nectarine, peach, 
orange, lemon, guava, and most varieties of 
plants would exist miserably in soils in which 
the apple, pear, cherry, and almond would do 
well. Yet we often see these trees planted 
together in ths same orchard, with no difference 
made in the preparation of the soil, with the 
result that the most delicate trees soon succumb 
to their uncongenial surroundings. This should 
show the importance of devoting a plot specially 
to each section of tree if we wish to secure the 
best results. In some of the larger orchards the 
desirableness of keeping the different kinds of 
trees apart is recognised. Even there, however, 
special application of _manures-is not often 
practised It isin smaller gardens, where the 
fruit is grown chiefly for home consumption, 
that the trees are mixed without regard to the 
particular requirements of each, and in such 
cases it is more necessary to plant and cultivate 
them separately according to their individual 
requirements, manuring liberally those varieties 
mentioned aboye, and by judicious pruning 
preventing the stronger kinds from over- 
shadowing them. Close planting also isa bad 
and common practice. This occurs through the 
natural desire to have as much variety in fruité 
as it is possible to crowd into a given space, 
Whether the soil-be poor or rich but little 
difference should be madé in the distances at 
which trees are planted. Twenty feet from 
stem to stem is planting perhaps too close. 
As crops of apples and pears are cleared off 
the trees a commencement should be made to 
scrape the stone to remove all refuges where 
chrysalis of codlin moth might lodge. An autumn 
dressing of limewash is also an excellent preven= 
tive of inssct pests of all kinds if applied to the 
stems and main branches. It also destroys all 
