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The Kitchen Garden. 
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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 
‘Colery 
Chervil 
Corn Salad 
‘Cress 
Endive 
’ Herbs (various) 
Java Radish 
Kale 
Kohl Rabi. 
Leek 
Lettuce 
Parsley 
Parsnips 
_ Peas (eariy sortsy 
Portugal Cabbage 
Radish 
Rampion 
Rape 
Red Beet (Long and Turnip) 
Salsify 
Savoy 
Scorzongra 
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 
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HE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
May, 1910. 
maaan vs —— 
— Keep Beds Clear. — 
Beds from which crops have recently 
been cleared away should be well dug, 
have a heavy dressing of manure, if 
necessary, for the succeeding crop, and 
should be thrown up rough to enable 
them to benefit from full exposure te the 
weather until the time for planting 
arrives, 
— Seed Buying. — 
Get your supply of seeds for next 
season’s gardening not later than this 
month if possible, and thus have them by 
you for sowing just when season and 
opportunity are favorable. Most seeds- 
men keep collections of seeds ready made 
up for posting, obtainable at from 2/6 
upwards, and will be found cheaper than 
purchasing in single packets. 
— Rotation. — 
Keep the necessity of rotating crops 
well in mind for the better economy of 
the food stuffs in the soil. A crop of 
beans, for instance, should never be 
succeeded by a crop of beans. Tho 
plants of one family, having to a certain 
extent tastes in common, should only be 
succeeded by those of an entirely different 
family and character. An exact method 
of rotation should be worked out and 
strictly followed. Potatoes, as is well 
known, require a rich, well manured soil, 
and can, therefore, be followed by peas 
beans, carrots, turnips, or cabbages, the 
same soil sufficing for them without 
further enriching. They in their turn 
should be succeeded by vegetables of dis- 
similar tastes. 
The main point in rotating crops suc- 
cessfully is to make a study of the various 
tastes of the different subjects in ordey 
to be able, at the time of planting, to 
substitute one crop for another of a 
totally different capacity. 
— Leek. —° 
Welshmen should remember that their 
national emblem, the leek, may be largely 
sown this month. It is relished by many 
others who approciate its mildness. 
Prepare the bed. for putting out at) the 
same time as the seed is sown in tho beds» 
and keep it cultivated to get a start on 
the weeds before the plants are put out, 
If the seed is to be sown whéfe the 
plants are to remain, a place should be 
chosen that has had a well-cultivated 
crop on it previously, 
— Celery. — 
Celery sufficiently advanced should be 
blanched by earthing up four or five 
weeks previous to its being required for 
the table. 
— Rubbish. — 
Clear away al! refuse, exhausted vege- 
table crops, and all untidy matter to the 
rubbish pits, there to rot down and form 
soil for future crops. 
MY JEWELLER, 
sii . G. W. Cox, 
CLOCK REPAIRS. 
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Watches Cleaned from 2s. 6d. 
A well-selected stock of Watches and 
Jewellery at fair play prices. 
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