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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Aug 18, 1956
Page
14
A religious gathering titled Congregational Holy Service was presented by Evangelical Assembly at a local church. The event featured communal worship, scripture readings, and a sermon aimed at spiritual renewal for attendees from the congregation and nearby communities.
The article outlines spring lawn preparation steps including soil drainage, levelling, and multiple rakings to create a smooth seed bed. It recommends careful grading for surface drainage, a slight slope, and a pre sowing fertiliser mix of sulphate of ammonia, superphosphate, and potash.
Seed sowing continues and onion seedlings rhubarb and Jerusalem artichoke tubers should be planted. Prepare beds for early potatoes and divide globe artichokes. Cultivate established crops, weed control, and lightly fork fruit trees before new growth. Fertiliser like blood and bone advised for fruit trees raspberries and similar plants.
In the rower garden weed sowing of spring Ss nuala should continue and perennials such as Shasta Daisies Russell Luping Eniphosia Delphinium can be divided. Chrysanthemum cuttings may be taken over the next weeks from new growth. plant in sandy beds to strike. Mulch borders with blood and bone or old animal manure and fork the bed after mulching for best results.
The note explains bacterial blight of peas is seed borne with no control beyond disease-free seed. Home gardeners face difficulty saving clean seed each year, and if the disease appeared before, avoid sowing peas for several years or use new garden beds away from infection sites. Queries to Sequoia Times answered weekly.
N Leon brings back latest equipment for Plano Replis all work guaranteed. Contact King Queanbeyan 218 or write C o T Donoghoe Monaro St Queanbeyan for details.
Canberra gardeners can grow several hibiscus species including Hibiscus syriacus and Hibiscus moschentos. Varieties range from rose, purple, blue to white with single and double blooms. Lady Stanley, Hibiscus manthot, and others thrive in loam, full sun, and wind protection, with propagation by division or seed.
A practical instruction summary urges immediate precautionary spraying of fruit trees to prevent pests and diseases. It covers timing for apples pears and cherries, recommended sprays including lime sulfur Bordeaux mixtures sulfur and lead arsenate, bud dormancy conditions, use of spray spreaders, and cautions about not spraying fruit ready for harvest.
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