186 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Ave., 1898. 
their appearance. Do not consider any disease too trivial, and that it can be 
well let alone to a more convenient time, as the more convenient time will not 
come ; but the disease will flourish and spread rapidly, so that what might have 
been checked, if not eradicated, by half-an-hour’s work will now take the 
grower all he knows to get the better of it. In spraying, whether for insects 
or fungi, a knowledge of the pests to be treated, combined with carefulness 
and promptitude, are the essentials of success. 
In notes of this kind it is impossible that they apply equally to every 
part of the colony, but they will be found to be about an average. Very early 
districts will sometimes require the notes of a month later, and very late 
districts those of a month earlier ; but this will right itself when a year’s notes 
have been written. 
Farm and Garden Notes for August. 
Farm.- -Activity in the field during this and the following 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 the 
issue of this Journal for August, 1897,0n 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. 
Kitchen Garden.—This 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. 
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, marigold, 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. 
