836 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Apri, 1900. 
perfect success. As the weather is becoming very much drier, these and all 
plants will, of course, require careful looking after in the matter of wate — 
always bearing in mind that it is by no means good policy to reduce the 
round any newly shifted plant to a condition of bog and to keep it so. 
In all your planting use every endeavour to act upon some definite plan. 
Strive to know exactly what you want and to work up to it. ‘This 18 *— 
necessary in a small place as in a large one. When you get into the habit, yu 
will be surprised to find yourself forming mind’s-eye pictures of what you 
place will be like, and fashioning and changing images in your mind of you! 
garden under the varying aspects presented by the different plants you have 
deal with. As a general scrawls upon the back of an official paper a fev 1 
arbitrary signs and invests them in his mind with the life and motion — 
charging squadrons, so you will come tolook upon your empty beds as if, be 
were ablaze with the beauty you mean to bestow upon them. In this wi m 
much of the pleasure you derive from “ the art which doth mend Nature. 
In the vegetable garden you will be busy with the work outlined for yu — 
last month. You can sow beans, beets, cabbage, carrots, cress, endive, eschalots : 
kohl-rabi, leeks, lettuce, mustard, onions, parsnips, radish, spinach, tomato, a™ 
turnips. The cultivation of these was fully described last month, with er 
exception of tomatoes, which are the most wholesome, perhaps, of any vegetable 
grown in Queensland, and because of their easy cultivation should be found 
every garden. The main crop should be sown about August, and beyon — 
planting out in rich soil 3 or 4 feet apart, and training on a rough trellis m 
of light saplings or split bamboo, they wiil require little attention, except 
stop the plant by pinching when the fruit begins to form. The autumn TP 
which is now ripening, requires to have the foliage somewhat stripped to 4 a 
more light to penetrate to the fruit. A small sowing may be made noW Ail 
bring on in a warm place with protection. Second sowings may be made of 
the vegetables recommended last month. In the case of peas and beans ‘ 
sowings may be large to keep up a good succession. Look closely after t 
seeds already sown, and if any Bhat signs of failure see that they are repla¢ 
at once. 
