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88 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Juny, 1898. 
are unsuited to the climate, and advise all such to consult the Department of 
Agriculture as to the suitability or otherwise of the fruits they wish to plant, 
as I am certain that they will find it to their advantage to do so. 
It costs just as much to prepare the land for and to plant, prune, and 
look after an inferior variety or a variety of fruit that is unsuitable to the 
climate, and from which no return of any value will ever be obtained, as it does 
to grow a variety that is suitable to the climate and that will produce superior 
fruit that will meet with a ready sale; therefore, no fruitgrower can afford to 
spend time and money growing unsuitable varieties, and the sooner that this 
is realised the better for the fruit growing industry of this colony. 
Cultural Notes for Tropical Queensland. 
[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. | : 
AUGUST. 
Giyeer should be unearthed, together with any late yams and turmeric. 
Chicory (which, however, is not a tropical plant) can now be unearthed. 
*s= Wields and gardens should both be cleared of weeds. Cane crushing will now 
‘be undertaken by most miils, and the crop well in hand. Plantings of cane 
tops may be made, the ground being prepared beforehand. The tops of canes 
containing least saccharine matter will retain their vitality longer than other 
portions of the cane. The remainder of the Arabian variety of coffee should 
be gathered; the trees being pruned, the very long primaries may be cut back 
seriously where no secondaries are showing; the plantation must be kept 
clear of weeds. he kitchen garden in the tropics, if it has been well attended 
to, will give good results in temperate zone vegetables. It is now too late to 
pian English potatoes, but sowing for a crop of French beans may be 
azarded. Annatto will ripen this month; secure the dye by rubbing the 
. seeds in cold water, which may afterwards be boiled for a time and bottled for 
use. Jield peas may be reaped. Cuttings of oats for green fodder finish this - 
month. Scrub felling performed during this and the following month. 
Collecting and planting of Manihot Glaziovii seed. 
