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About Vegetables. 
The Kitchen Garden. 
He 
Operations for the Month. 
— Seed Sowing, — 
Seeds of any of the following may be 
sown during this month :— 
American Cress 
Broad Beans 
Broccoli 
Brussels Sprouts 
Cabbage 
Carrots (early sorts) 
Cauliflower 
Celeraic 
Celery 
Chervil 
Corn Salad 
Cress 
Endive 
Herbs (various) 
Java Radish 
Kale 
Kohl Rabi 
Leek 
Lettuce 
Parsley 
Parsnips 
Peas (eariy sorts) 
Portugal Cabbage 
Radish 
Rampion 
Rape if 
Red Beet (Long and Turnip) 
Salsify 
Savoy 
Scorzonera 
Sorrell 
Spinach 
Turnips 
White Beet 
— Planting and Transplanting, — - 
Plant early Potatoes; also Potato 
Onions, and Tree Onions. 
Transplant Cabbage, Cauliflower, 
Celeraic, Celery, Chives, Herbs (various), 
Horse Radish, and Lettuce plants, and 
Mushroom Spawn. 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
ime Cultivating Vacant. Land, — 
All vacant land should be prepared dur- 
ing this month for winter and spring crops 
by a thorough digging, trenching in the 
case of new land, and heavy dressings of 
rich manure. This done, the soil should 
be thrown up that the weather may acy 
upon it, and that it may benifit to the 
fullest extent fron the autumnal showers. 
— Transplanting, — 
Where the soil is moist and can be kept 
so young plants of cabbage, caulifiowers, 
and celery can be put out. They should 
be well watered and mulched ofter trans- 
planting: To water the little plants pre- 
vious to removal and to lift a good ball 
of earth is the safest way at this season. 
— Weeds. — 
The hoe must be kept going continually 
to check weeds. 
— Lettuce. — 
Young lettuce plants can be planted 
out in a tich, well-prepared soil, and . 
where they can be kept moist as long as 
the warm, dry weather continues. Sow 
fresh seed for succession. 
— Tomatoes. — 
Thin out the foliage of tomatoes, and 
keep the lateral shoots pinched off. 
As autumn approaches they will want all 
the sun they can get to hasten their rip- 
ening. Keep tho soil around them mode- 
rately moist. 
— Potatoes. — 
As the tops of potatoes wither they 
should be dug up and stored in pits or 
cool, dark cellars.” Make a fresh plant- 
ing of potatoes in a sheltered postion, 
— Keep up Appearance, — 
Keep up a trim and tidy appearance 
in the vegetable garden, ‘and remove old 
haulms and all untidy matter to the rub- 
bish heaps. 
E. BLACKEBY, 
BOOT & SHOE MANUFACTURER, 
“296 Rundle Street, Adelaide. 
Cut Soles a Speciality. 
Subscribe to 
AUSTRALIAN GARDENER 
3s. Gd. Per Annum. 
March, 1910 
Irish Blight on Tomatoes. 
_ Mr. D, McAlpine (Vegetable Patholo- 
gist of the Victorian Department of Agri- 
culture) reports that the end of November 
he received from the Fruit Inspector 
samples of diseased tomatoes obtained 
froma line of 26 cases imported from 
New South Wale: 
the fruit was of a dirty green color, 
mottled with brown. The flesh beneath 
the discolored skin was of a brown, rusty 
color. After being cut for some time the 
The blossom end of 
fruits developed a rotten, disagreeable 
smell. On placing slices of diseased 
tomatoes in a moist chamber, the fructi- 
fication of Irish blight developed 
luxuriantly. That the fungus is the same 
as that causing disease in potatoes was 
proved inoculation 
experiments, A healthy potato inoculated 
with spores from the diseased tomato 
developed Irish blight, and from blight 
affected potatoes the disease was conveyed 
to healthy tomatoes, In Great Britain 
heavy losses in tomatoes from Irish bight 
are sometimes experienced, and in New 
conclusively by 
Zealand losses have been severe. Tomato- - 
growers in this State should keep a 
careful watch for signs of this disease. 
Tomatoes as Insecticide or 
Preventive. 
—— 
_ French horticulturists are recognising 
the value of the tomato as an insecticide, 
as appears from several instances cited by 
the Revue Horticole. M. Boucher, the 
well-known nurseryman of R aris, prepared 
adecoction of the leaves, with which he s 
sprayed Peach trees infested y green 
fly, with the result that the pests were 
destroyed. The solution, therefore, acts 
much in. the same way as a nicotine 
solution would, with the advantage of 
being considerably cheaper.. Another 
correspondent of the Revue, M., Berlou 
of Saint Quentin, writes to confirm the 
cbservations of M. Boucher, and 
describes his own method as follows : 
‘For several years I have planted at the 
foot of each of my Peach trees, of which 
I have about twenty, a Tomato plant, 
which is never pinched, and which twines 
up into the tree. Inever have green fly. 
I also set out some Tomatoes around beds 
planted with beans, with the same good 
result.’ 
