1 Noy., 1899.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL, 517 
Farm and Garden Notes for November, 
Consranr attention should now be given to crops to keep them clean and to 
keep the ground loose. Under favourable circumstances, harvesting can com- 
mence in some districts. Where the heavy frost of October destroyed the 
Wheat crops for grain, the land will, in many cases, have been ploughed after 
faking off the damaged wheat for a hay crop, and sown with maize. With 
seasonable showers the crop should go a long way towards recouping the severe 
losses entailed by the frosts. Oats should be cut for hay when mature but not 
ripe, as the plant is then in its most nourishing state. Tobacco plants will require 
‘areful watching to prevent the ravages of caterpillars. ‘Top the plants back so as 
to direct the full strength into the leaves intended for crop. Sow imphee, setaria, 
or panicum, teosinte, sorghum, maize, Kafir corn, and generally sow as directed 
for last month, with few exceptions. 
Kitchen Garden.—The benefit of well-trenched ground will become more 
apparent as the season advances. Shallow-worked land will not repay labour 
expended on it, unless it is well mulched with manure, &c. In sowing aud 
transplanting during the summer months allow plenty of room, or the crops 
will be drawn and worthless. Good, deep, and constant cultivation will always 
pay in the kitchen garden. Keep the ground clean and open with the digging- 
fork and hoe. Thin out melon and cucumber plants, and loosen the earth 
round them. It is a good plan, and will save much of the crop if the branches 
are pegged down as they extend. This will prevent them being destroyed by 
ligh winds, and by so doing they will take root, and therefore ease the main 
root.. Tomatoes planted out last month should be well watered and mulehed 
during the prevailing dry weather. Sow cabbage, French beans, melons, lettuce, 
radish, pumpkins, cucumbers, rosellas, &c. Transplant for succession in calm 
cloudy weather. 
Flower Garden.—In many gardens dahlias are well above ground, and 
should be staked. Bulbs which were put away ina moist spot may now be 
planted out. Reserve the weaker bulbs forlater planting, so as to ensure flowers 
for autumn. Bulbs that have done flowering should be taken upand stored for 
the season in a dry place. The flower garden should now be in full bloom, and 
will well repay the trouble bestowed on it, and a little fertiliser of any descrip- 
tion given as a top-dressing will assist the plants to bloom and look well for a 
longer period than with ordinary treatment. 
Horticultural Notes, 
By PHILIP MAC MAHON, 
Curator, Botanic Gardens, Brisbane. 
Wuen this meets the eye of the most distant reader of the Journal, we shall 
be well into the month of November, one of the hottest months of the year in 
Queensland, and, so far as mortals are concerned, one of the worst to bear, 
because coming directly after our glorious winter. The mean shade temperature, 
as shown in our table at the commencement of these articles, is 75 degrees, and 
the average rainfall amounts to the not large amount of 4.06 inches, which is 
small compared to the average annual rainfall of the next month, December, 
which amounts to 10°21 inches, and this no doubt accounts for the reduced 
