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with the sulphur, lime, and salt wash mentioned in my pamphlet on spraying, 
This mixture is also of value for painting the stems and main branches of 
citrus-trees covered with mosses or lichens, or attacked by White, Red, Circular. 
Black Mussel, or other scale insects. 
Where the ground is ready, plant deciduous trees this month ; do not plant 
too deep, and cut back hard at planting. Clean up the orchard thoroughly, and 
plough and leave the ground rough as soon as the trees are pruned and the 
prunings are burnt. (Gather up and destroy all fly-infested fruit of all kinds, 
as the more thoroughly the fly is kept down during the winter on the coast, the 
fewer flies there will be to deal with in spring. Where not already done, see 
that pineapples are protected from frost, and keep the ground between the 
plants well worked in order to retain moisture, as the winter months are usually 
dry and the plants are liable to injury through drought. The same remarks 
apply to bananas, and the unripe bunches of fruit should be protected from 
slight frosts or cold spells by any suitable available material. , 
Farm and Garden Notes for July. 
This is a very good month for sowing lucerne, as the weeds will have quite 
slacked off, and there is little danger of the young lucerne plants being choked. 
Select the richest and deepest soil for this crop. A calcareous loam is the best. 
Reduce the soil to a good tilth, and if a few nice showers come on during the 
month, granting that the seed is good, there will ~ no fear of failure. Oats, 
barley, and vetches may be sown. 
Get the land ready for potatoes, maize, sugar-cane, tobacco, field carrots, 
mangel-wurzel, Swedes. Unless in very early, sheltered situations, potatoes and 
_ maize should not be planted until next month. There is too much likelihood of 
frosts oceurring in July. 
Rice may be planted in the far North. The harvesting of the coffee crop 
should be well advanced. Take up yams and gather tobacco as it ripens. 
Kutchen Garden.—Make successive sowings of carrot, parsnip, broad 
beans, lettuce and other salads, peas, turnips, beet, leeks. Plant asparagus and 
rhubarb, cabbage, and cauliflower. If you have already a good show of peas, 
stake up the plants, and nip off the tops of broad beans. In warm 
localities melons, marrows, cucumbers, and squashes may be planted towards 
the end of the month, but do not sow French beans, dwarf, or scarlet 
runners, in cold, exposed situations. The drying westerly winds will necessitate 
the soil being kept in fine tilth to prevent the moisture from evaporating. If 
the soil is allowed to cake and harden, nothing but disappointment can be 
expected. If you have the means of irrigating the aaa garden, do so 
thoroughly ; a mere surface wetting is worse than useless, the ground requires 
to be thoroughly soaked. Any land now vacant should be ploughed or dug up 
and left in the rough. Harrowing and pulverising the newly turned up soil 
too long before it is required only encourages the growth of weeds, and also 
deprives the soil to a great extent of the sweetening influences of the sun and air. 
Flower Garden.—W inter work ought to be well advanced by this time. 
Fill out all blanks in the flower beds, and where the plants are over-crowded, 
thin out. The roses, which should all have been pruned, will now require 
looking after. Wherever a shoot is inclined to grow inwards, rub it off, or if a 
fine young shoot is beginning to grow ahead, cut off the branch which it is 
replacing. ‘This may be done with most plants. Turf and top-dress the lawns. 
Overhaul the fern house, top-dress here also with a mixture of sandy loam and 
leaf-mould. Sow zinnias, amaranthus, balsam, dianthus, chrysanthemum 
tricolor, marigolds, cosmos, cornflowers, coxcombs, phloxes, sweet peas, lupins, 
&c. Plant out antirrhinums, pansies, hollyhocks, verbenas, petunias, &c. ; 
pene gladiolus, tuberoses, aes ere ismene, crinums, belladonna, 
ily, and other bulbs. Take up any dahlia bulbs left in the ground, and store 
them away in some warm, moist place, where they will start gently and be 
ready for planting out a month or two later. 
