432 QUEENSLALD AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 May, 1898: 
Cultural Notes for Tropical ()ucensland. 
[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. | 
JUNE. 
Prantine of English potatoes may be continued. Opium poppy blooming 
and forming capsules. Gathering tobacco leaves may be continued. Young 
plants of same for later crop may be planted out, if weather permits. Mada- 
gascar ground nuts may be unearthed. Gathering of teosinte to be continued 
and finished. Tilseed may also be gathered. Every effort should be made 
this month to eradicate weeds, the weather being generally favourable for this 
work. Thisis a delightful month for flower gardening, particularly where 
regular supplies of water can be obtained. The following annuals may be 
planted from seeds, with every prospect of success:—Balsams, dianthus, 
mignonette, zinnia, nasturtiums, gaillardias, sunflowers, coreopsis, verbenas, 
geraniums, thunbergia, dracenas, and petunias; the latter grow like weeds in 
the tropics. Matured sugar-cane, which was trashed last month, may be cut, 
weather being suitable. Coffee-gathering must be prosecuted with vigour; 
the berries are best pulped the same day as picked. Bananas to be attended 
to, and ripe fruits gathered ; fibre may be produced from the old stems. 
Pineapples to be kept free from weeds; it is advisable to plant this fruit 
sufficiently wide to enable “ cultivators’’ and ploughs to be used. Cultivators 
should be used wherever possible, thereby aérating the soil. This is a good 
month to build bush-houses in, bloodwood or bean-tree posts only being used. 
Further planting of temperate zone vegetable seeds may be proceeded with, 
