164, QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. {1 Fes., 1900. | 
Don’t meddle too much with lawns while wet, but when you get a chanel ) 
between rains roll and top dress them if they want it. f 1} 
Keep planting out palms and all plants which make roots and lee i. 
simultaneously. All tropical evergreens do best in showery, hot weather. ™ )- 
are likely here to have spells of quite scorching weather between rainy, mush | 
spells. Such plants suffer then severely, and any temporary shade will he} 
them very much. aA 
You can bud all sorts of plants now, such as roses, &c, You can ast) 
layer all plants (and their name is legion) which do best in this W | 
Geraniums strike readily from cuttings now, and, if put in where they eal 
intended to remain permanently, will be found to give very little trouble | 
after attention. Look after the tieing of your dahlias, also after the ties on YO") 
young trees which will now be rapidly swelling, and likely to cut if the tres aay 
not attended to. 
Busu-nousEe.—Look after this, and overhaul, prune, plant, and topdres 
You will find many plants just a little greedy, and likely to overrun their mor 
modest and more worthy neighbours. Cut them without compunction ; 7 
are built to stand it. Dry off caladiums and similar plants. All bush-hou® 
plants will now appreciate watering with liquid manure. It is always best ad 
water in the evening if you can so arrange it, and after watering with ligt’ | 
manure give a brisk syringing to wash off any possible dirt from the manut 7 
or, at any rate, the impalpable particles which are always floating in the aM i} 
and which, though invisible to the naked eye, are always settling on the su ae 
of plants, choking up the breathing pores. Plants like to have their fac 
cleaned, no less than their owners. 
VEGETABLE GarpEN.—This is a busy month. You may sow beans, beel® | 
brocoli, Brussel’s sprouts, cabbage, carrot, egg plant, endive, eschalots, het | 
lettuce, maize, sweet peas, radish, salsify, savoys, spinach, tomato, turmp | 
Seeds sown last month will want attention—such as thinning, planting a. \| 
watering, weeding, &c. Be most careful that the growth of your young veget@ | 
plants be not checked. ‘They may seem to recover, but their cells becoias 
as it were “set,” and, like a human being whose mental or physical powers have} 
been arrested in youth, the effects remain. Throw away all stunted seed/ingy | 
Do not make the present sowing your main one unless you are in 4 om 
climate. March is the big sowing month. If you sow in boxes, have the! | 
ready ; and, if possible, have your compost under cover, so that when a pour | 
wet day comes you can comfortably withdraw under cover, and, while ™ 
elements are working for you outside, be busy at work within. te 
Let your warery with weeds be, “Slay and spare not.” Every stray 0 1 
post of the enemy routed before its members can seed is a battalion destroy? — 
for next year. 
