TRALIAN GARDENER. 
The Vegetable Garden. 
WHITE CURLED ENDIVE. 
Operations for the Month. 
The weather is likely to become gradu- 
ally cooler, and a sort of second spring 
will take place, which makes the autumn 
one of the most pleasant seasons of the 
year. Clear up all rubbish, weeds, useless 
vegetables, and so on, and heap them 
together to rot, and they: will become 
most useful manure when they have .de- 
cayed away. Whenever this rubbish stinks 
or becomes offensive, throw a few spades- 
ful of dry soil completely over it from 
time to time, and it will prevent all dis- 
agreeable odours from arising. 
Every opportunity for preparing new 
ground should now be taken, and any 
ground that has been under crop for a long 
time could be much improved by trench- 
ing 2 feet deep at least, and by draining. 
If it had been trenched, it will’'do it all’ 
the good in the world to retrench. It 
may be mentioned that land that is 
trenched, and not well drained, is very 
liable to ‘run together’? again—that is,- 
to become hard below the surface. There 
is perhaps no more important operation, 
either in agriculture or horticulture, than 
draining ; but unfortunately: for those 
who neglect it, the work is but seldom - 
properly attended to. When trenching or 
deep digging is being done it would be 
wise to mix some good manure, say bone- 
dust, costing about 5s. a cwt., with the 
soil—not merely with the surface soil, 
but the whole depth. 
Asparagus.—It would be advisable to 
get a bed ready for some plants as soon 
as this can be done. The ground should 
be trenched 18 inches or 2 feet deep, 
some manure being well mixed up with 
the surface soil'as itis being dug. It. is 
not necessary to ‘make a: very large bed, 
for a few plants. evan will give an occa- 
sional dish, if the plants are looked after ; 
and if the soil happens naturally to suit 
them the supply will be considerable. 
When the ground has been dug up it 
should be left as rough as possible until 
the time comes for planting in the very 
early spring. Asparagus likes a rich sandy 
deep soil, but it will grow fairly weii in 
almost any kind of soil that has been 
well prepared. It is a native of the sea- 
coast of Europe, and has been in cultiva- 
tion from remote times and long before 
the Christian era. It is found growing 
~ CONOVER’S COLOSSAL ASPARAGUS. 
wild in the sandy interior of Pussia, far 
_ away from the sea-coast, but probably the 
soil there is saline. lt should grow well 
-in the inland parts of this State where 
the saltbush grows, and it will probably 
vegetable. 
March 1, 1908 
Succeed splendidly where it could be 
irrigated by the water from artesian bores. 
At the present time nothing need be done 
beyond preparing the ground. 
Bean, French or Kidney,—In the warm 
districts a few rows should be sown if the 
soil is not too dry. It. will probably be 
too late to sow in the cold districts, for 
the plant caunot stand frost. Plants that 
have ceased to bear should be pulled up 
to make room for some other kind of 
Old withered plants of beans 
or peas when allowed to remain give the 
vegetable garden a most miserable neg- 
lected appearance, besides tading up space 
that might. be producing something useful. 
Every grower of vegetables shonld try to 
keep his garden tidy and make it worth 
looking at. If this be doue the place will 
become more and more interesting and 
profitable, 
LARGE GREEN PARIS ARTICHOKE, 
Bean, Broad.—The soil best suited to 
this vegetable is a heavy clay loam, 
although it will grow and bear well in 
almost any kind of soil It wonld not be 
advisable to sow to any great extent 
during the present month Dig the 
ground well, and if it is poor apply plenty 
of horse or cow dung, and if this has been 
well rotted all the better. If artificial 
manure is used apply little or no sulphate: 
of ammonia or nitrate of soda. Use bone 
dust or superphosphate of lime and potash. 
Sow in rows from 2 to 3 ft. apart, accord- 
ing to the variety, for the dwarf-growing 
kinds may be sown closer together. than 
the tall. The seed should be sown about 
4 or 5 inches apart in the rows. 
Beet, Red.—Sow a row or two of this 
useful vegetable. Thin out well any 
plants that are coming up from previous 
sowings. 
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