16 THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
About Vegetables. 
The Kitchen Garden. 
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Operations for the Month. 
Seeds of any of the following may be 
sown during this month :— 
Beans (French and Asparagus) 
Beet (Silver) 
Broccoli 
Brussels Sprouts 
Cabbage 
Cauliflower 
Celeraic 
Celery (Red and White) 
Cress 
Mustard 
Onions (for Salad) 
Radish 
Rape 
“Scotch Kale 
Spinach (New Zealand) 
Turnips 
— Planting and Transplanting. — 
Plant early Potatoes. 
Transplant a few Cabbage, Cauliflower, 
and Celery plants for early use. 
— Watering. — 
A thorough soaking of the soil is by 
far the best method of watering crops 
that have advanced beyond the seedling 
stage, for by so doing a deep-root system 
is encouraged. Only in the case of seed 
beds is a mere sprinkling advisable. 
— Work that Pays. — 
Keep all beds free from weeds and 
those that have not been mulched con- 
stantly hoed. All vacant space should 
now be well trenched and enriched with 
manure, and the surface kept lightly 
dug or hoed so that the soil may have the 
full benefit of all the rain and sunshine, 
in order that it may be sweet and 
mellow, and in a fertile condition when 
the time arrives for autumn and winter 
planting. The vegetable grower should 
always be wll provided with manure or 
clean litter of a manurial character, so 
much of his success depends on this pro- 
vision. 
— Asparagus, — 
See that Asparagus plants are secured 
to stakes so that the heds are not neg: 
lected and allowed to dry out. 
— Cucumbers and Marrows. — 
Thin out the growth of Cucumbers and 
Marrows, removing old branches and 
giving preference to young 
shoots, Keep the soil around them 
fairly moist, but after they have swollen 
bearing 
to the required size, and are commencing 
to ripen, water sparingly. Cut them 
when quite small, and do not put the 
plant to the unnecessary trouble of 
ripening large fruit when the small ones 
are so much more delicately flavored. 
— The Tomatoes. — 
Tomatoes are in full season, and are 
always a profitable fruit; they yearly 
gain in popularity owing, no doubt, to 
the variety of uscs they can be put to in 
cooking. They are now making a very 
free growth and require a good deal of 
checking. Any excess of water will cause 
superfinous growth,’ which is always ‘at 
the expense of the fruit, therefore keep 
the soil around about Tomatoes moist, 
Continue 
to keep the side-shoots pinched, and any 
leaves that threaten to interfere with the 
ripening of the fruit may be freely 
but avoid overwatering them. 
thinned. The fruit wants direct exposure 
especially as the autumn and cold weather 
approaches. Gather as soon as it ripens, 
and remove all overripe and rotting fruit 
at once from the beds. 
— Onions, — 
The tops of onions that are still green 
should be bent to hasten the maturation 
of the bulbs. 
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AUSTRALIAN GARDENER 
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2U Waymouth St., Adelaide 
February, 1910 
Keep a Record. 
A good gardener is always methodical ; 
he keeps a record of the time he sows the. 
various kinds of seeds and the time their 
produce matures, with notes of their 
various qualities, Especially are such 
notes useful when experimenting on new 
varieties, 
size, it is convenient to have it plotted 
out on paper, with the names of the- 
vegetables grown in the various plots. 
This method should assist the workman 
in having a proper rotation of crops, the~ 
value of which is conceded by all experi- 
enced men. 
worthy of being remembered. 
1, No plants of the same order should: 
follow one another. 
2. Plants grown for their roots should 
be succeeded by those that are not. 
3. Plants grown for their seeds, such- 
as beans and peas, should not be followed 
by those grown for a like purpose. 
4. Asparagus, 
rhubarb, and _ other 
plants which have occupied the ground 
for a long period should be succeeded by” 
some annual crop. 
Cabbage Lettuces in Scotland.. 
The Lettuce is the most important and 
whole of our salading plants—writes C. 
Blair, in ‘ The Garden’—and the Cabbage 
varieties have been so much improved of 
recent years that it is hardly worth while 
troubling with the Cos section. 
to maintain a constant supply of perfectly 
blanched, tender Lettuce for as long a. 
season as possible; so after many experi- 
ments with the varieties offered by the 
various seed merchants. I have now 
secured four or five sorts that yive entire 
satisfaction at table, and that have also 
the strong recommendation of standing 
quite 2 long time in good condition. For 
earliest supplies [ invariably rely on 
Carter’s Holborn Standard. It is not 
the largest variety, but it is of fine, 
compact growth and delicate flavor, 
Besides doing admirably as an early sort, 
it may be grown all the summer with the 
best results, New York Giant is our 
Where the garden is of fair 
There are a few rules- 
I have: 
