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Any vigorous-growing mangoes will do for seedling stocks to be worked 
over, as the process of plate budding, lately described and illustrated by Mr. 
Horace Knight in this Journal, gets over the difficulty of mango propagation 
true to kind, and we will be able to increase our good sorts and decrease the 
bad. This method of working the mango can be carried out during the month, 
either on young seedlings or older trees of inferior varieties that it is deemed 
desirable to work over into more profitable lands. 
Budding of both citrus and deciduous trees can be continued during the 
month, and the nursery will require constant care to keep it free from weeds, 
to see that all ties are cut, and all buds properly started and tied up; as, unless— 
the young tree is properly started and trained to a single stem in the nursery, 
the grower has considerable difficulty in getting it to grow into a decent tree 
when it is permanently planted out in the orchard. 
Strawberry planting should commence during the month. The land, 
which should be a rich loam of moderately heavy texture, if possible, should be 
well prepared by thorough working to a depth of at least 12 inches. If the 
land is virgin scrub, no manure will be necessary ; but if it has been under crop 
for some time it should receive either a good dressing of well-rotted farm 
manure or of a commercial fertiliser eth in phosphoric acid, potash, and 
nitrogen, such as that recommended in this Jowrnal in the articles on manuring 
which appeared under the heading of “ Fruit Culture in Queensland” some 
months since. 
Choose moist, showery weather for planting strawberries, and take care 
to set out nothing but strong, healthy runners. If the land is dry at time of 
lanting it will require irrigating, and this is best done by opening up a 
urrow in which the plants are to be set, and filling it with water. As soon as 
the ground has soaked up the water, set the plants in the furrow and cover 
them with the dry soil. This method of watering will be found far better than 
setting the plants in dry ground and watering afterwards; as the moisture is 
all at the root of the plants, and the dry soil that is placed on the top acts as a 
mulch and prevents the soil from drying out. Where leaf blight is trouble- 
some—viz., wherever the Marguerite is grown—all plants should have all old 
diseased leaves removed, and the crowns and young growth should be dipped in 
Bordeaux mixture, taking care that the Bordeaux mixture is made from the 
best bluestone and not from an inferior article, as the cheap bluestones contain 
more or less sulphate of iron, and this will destroy the bulk of the plants dipped 
into a solution of which it forms part. ; 
The best strawberries to grow are— 
Ist, for early box berries—Aurie and Marguerite. 
2nd, for mid-season box berries—Aurie, Marguerite, Federator, Pink’s 
Prolific, and Trollope’s Victoria. 
8rd, for jam—Pink’s Prolific, Trollope’s Victoria, and Marguerite, 
: though the latter has not the colour of the former. , 
There are, in addition to those named, several seedlings that are showing 
considerable merit, but are not yet fully tested. 
