sufficient to give a fair start to the wheat and other cereals, 
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Farm and Garden Notes for August. 
Aorrvity in the field during this and the foliowing month will be richly 
repaid at harvest time. Potatoes, yams, arrowroot, ginger, and sugar-cane may 
now be planted. Maize for an early crop should be sown as well as pumpkins. 
Maize-growers would do well to read the article published in this issue on the 
comparative results of deep and shallow cultivation of this crop. Sow lucerne, 
clover, and Swede turnips. “Weeds will shortly begin to assert themselves, and 
all growing crops should be kept clean. 
The Kitchen Garden will require to be well attended to, and all plants 
affected with aphis destroyed. Plant out asparagus, rhubarb, and Jerusalem 
artichokes in well-prepared beds. A large variety of vegetables may now be 
sown—such as cabbage, beet-root, lettuce, radish, parsnip, spinach, rhubarb, 
sea-kale, and asparagus—in properly prepared beds. In warm, sheltered situa- 
tions, towards the end of the month, sowings may be made of melons, 
cucumbers, tomatoes, and vegetable marrow. ‘Tobacco may be sown during 
August. 
In the Flower Garden all such work as trimming and repairing lawns, 
the digging of beds, pruning, and planting should be completed. Plant out 
antirrhinums, pansies, hollyhocks, verbenas, petunias, &c., which were lately 
sown. Sow zinnias, amaranthus, balsam, chrysanthemum tricolor, marigolds, 
cosmus, coxcombs, phloxes, sweet peas, lupins, &c. Plant gladiolus, tube- 
roses, amaryllis, pancratium, ismene, crinums, belladonna, lily, and other bulbs. 
Dahlias would, however, be more advantaged by placing them in some warm, 
moist spot, when they would start gently and be ready for planting out a month 
or two later. 
Mr. H. A. Tardent, manager of Westbrook Experimental Farm, writes 
under date 15th July :—‘ Since the drought broke up, the whole of the Downs 
has had from 1 to 2 inches of rain, according to locality. This has been 
which everywhere 
look beautiful. Butif more rain does not come ere long the wheat will, in 
many places—especially on newly broken ground—wither away and die out. 
In the neighbourhood of Roma the rainfall was nearly 4 inches, and on all 
‘sides the farms look green and prosperous.” 
