March 1, 1907 
best suited for the cool districts. Like all 
members of the family, it needs rich soil, 
and a mistake cannot be made in the use 
of abundance of manure—that Js, farm- 
yard manure. Makeas art by sowing a 
little seed. 
Cabbage—Sow seed oceasionallly during 
the month, but ouly sufficient to keep up 
a supply of plants. ; 
Caulitlowers—Work this as advised for 
broccoli, for it is much the same kind, and 
obtain the best seed procurable. 
Cucumber— Seed may now be sown if 
necessary, . 
Celery—Sow alittle seed and plant out 
any well grown pricked out seedlings, 
Usz manure liberally, and if the weather 
is dry water will probably be necessary, 
for*celely needs a lot of moisture. Harth 
up well grown plants in crder to blanch 
or whiten their thin lcaf stalks. 
Cress and Mustard—Sow a little seed 
now aud then during the mouth. If the 
‘weather should be dry a lot of water may 
be necessary. A very sinall bed should 
suffice for each sowing. 
Egg Plant—A sufficient, aumber of tle 
plants should now be growing to meet all 
requirements : but if not, seed may be 
sown, and the sturdy seedlings should be 
planted about 2 feet or more apart, 
Maize (Sweet) — Cultivate the ;lants 
frequently — not deep, but quite shallow— 
and keep down weeds. A sowing may be 
made if more is required. 
Onions should be grown where possible, 
and it is but few places that onions can- 
not be raised.” A few seeds may be sown 
if more onions axe required, and make the 
surface soil as fine as possible before the 
seed is sown. and then sow the seed quite 
shallow in rows. The. best way if large 
quantities are not required is to sow in 
small well made beds, and when the small 
onion plants are fit they may be trans- 
planted to the main bed. Water well 
before and after planting. Use abundance 
of manure and work it well with the soil. 
Parsley—This herb should always be 
grown, if only a plant or two. One. well 
LOnhnies : 
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THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
a 
matured plant will produce a considerable 
quantity of leaves if they be judiciously 
picked. 
Peas—If the ground be moist and the 
season favorable seed may be sown, but in 
a dry locality it is not worth while risk- 
ing a sowing, 
Potatoes—Work out a few rows of good 
variety : some persons prefer the waxy 
kinds, others the flowery or mealy sorts. 
Kidney varieties have a tendency to be 
waxy and it has been said that they are 
the most wholesome. Select clean seed 
and have nothing to do with any showing 
scab, Drop the potatoes about a fvot 
apart, and plant in rows about 2 ft 6 in 
apart. If the soil is well drained, as it 
should be, plant about six or seven inches 
deep: 
shallow. 
Pumpkins should be advancing well by 
this time, and probably there will be 
sufficient for all requirements. : 
Spinach—Sow «a little seed oczasion- 
ally. : 
Tomato—Seed may be sown if more 
plants are required: if any old plants 
which have spread over the soil are half 
rotten, or their leaves are decaying and 
the condition is in a mess, remove the lot 
for the fruit is not likely to be of much 
good, and if allowed to remain the plants 
will probably become diseased with the 
fungus pests. It is an easy matter to 
train tomato plants, and when trained the 
fruit is likely to be of superior quality, 
and diseases are not likely to be so pre- 
valent as when the tomatoes are growing 
wild. ~ 
{f the fruit is to be dried in the sun, use 
wooden trays 2 feet x 3 feet, which are made 
for the purpose, with 2} inch cleat at both 
ends These are easily handled, and can be 
sed in connection with all fruits 
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7 
The Orchard. 
THE RE-MAKING OF AN 
ORCHARD. 
BY A, G. CAMPBELL. 
AparT from all the efforts that ‘are 
being made to plant and rear new 
orchards in several parts of the State, 
it is interesting and instructive to find 
that science has been able to reclaim 
and rejuvenate an orchard which was 
stated on all sides to have seen its 
best days. In order that the public 
may know what can be done with 
discarded fruit trees, the following 
experieuces of an orchardist may 
To start with, his 
orchard was ina tad state—full of 
tangled and impoverished growth, har- 
boring un:old quantities of the codlin 
moth, mussel scale, and woolly aphis, 
In fact, its destruction was conte n-. 
plated. 
The orchardist, Mr Srnith, of Port- 
land, writes—My orchard, everybody 
can tell you, was very dirty four years 
ago—now it is clean, and this season 
I harvested 1600 cases of fruit from 
Over two acres o! trees I thought 
that some of the methods explained 
by Mr Luffmann, when the Sta 
demonstration block at Portland was 
planted in 1902 would suit my case 
and I adopted them. The first year I 
thinned out with the saw anumbe of 
tons of branches, so that light and 
air could more freely p'ay in and 
about the old and diseaced trees, The 
trees were thinned only, especially 
about the tops, and none ct the leaders 
or growing points were cut back.. By 
this. method the first step was taken: 
towards insuring the growth of fresh 
fruiting wood throughout the whole 
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