1 Aprtn, 1898.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 333 
Cultural Notes for Tropical ()ueensland. 
[The Cultural Notes for Tropical Queensland, kindly supplied by Mr. E. Cowley, Kamerunga 
State Nursery, are given a month in advance, for the obvious reason that the Journal cannot 
reach some parts of the far North until the month of issue is well-nigh over, and hence the 
monthly notes would be valueless until the following year. ] 
MAY. 
Enpravour to keep weedsdown; continue trashing sugar-cane; commence 
picking coffee; tobacco should now be well up, keep~a good lookout for 
insect pests, and transplantinto the field. Plantings of peas, English potatoes, 
French beans, lettuce, turnips, and carrots may be made in cool sheltered 
‘spots ; those with good soil should be chosen. Supplies of Solanum ovigerum 
(egg fruit) should be obtainable. Planting of coffee seed in prepared nurseries 
may be commenced. Plant Papaver somniferum (opium POPPY): using plenty 
of pigsty manure. Cold nights may now be looked for, the minimum tempera- 
ture at times reaching 54 degrees ahr. The leaves of some of the earlier 
yarieties of tobacco may be gathered. Seed of teosinte may be gathered. Kohl 
rabi does well if planted this month; plantings of cow pea can also be made. 
Seeds of Spondias dulcis may be planted. Extract the fibre from Hibiscus 
sabdarifera. Plough in cow pea. This is the orange season of the tropics. 
The weather is sometimes too hot for temperate zone vegetables, and great 
eare is necessary. Sometimes the cow pea does not seem to thrive this month. 
Egyptian wheat may be planted. Oats may be sown, and a fair crop obtained 
for green fodder if favourable weather ensues. Water vegetables with dilute 
einits Pods will be developing on Theobroma cacas. Commence distribution 
of coffee seed. 
