Garden and Orchard Tips for Spring Plant Care
Last week's rain aided raspberries apples pears and other fruits. After harvesting gooseberries currants, cultivate and mulch with manure, then water. Monitor codlin moth grub damage and discard diseased fruit. Thinning shoots and spacing promotes fruiting. Kitchen garden advises thinning carrots parsnips beets and turnips, transplanting when needed, sowing spinach and summer greens, and keeping herbs and beans harvested for longer season. Propagation of penstemon cuttings and sowing hardy plants like pansies are suggested. Maintain clean, well-watered beds and proper drying and storage of herbs.
Planting and Care of Lilies in the Flower Garden
The article outlines soil preparation for lilies and notes L candidium thrives in rich loam, with extra loam for very light soil. It describes bulb handling, planting depth, and sand use, and mentions L elegans L rubellum and L Martagon album as easy to grow. It advises lifting, replanting as they mature or storing bulbs in dry sand if relocation is needed.
Conservatory Planting and Begonia Propagation Guidance
Advice on potting herbaceous calceolarias in rich loam with sand and manure, frame placement on ash beds, and shading. It covers tuberous begonias cutting, seed sowing in fine sandy soil, cold-frame germination with moist management, and corms of cyclamen repotting with a balanced compost.
British Household Comedy Bits and Stage Glances
A jumble of household scenes and social jests. A mother frets over stove failures and missing money while a servant contends with wages and china losses. A doctor admonishes a shy boy, and a quip about widows and dead men punctuates the humor alongside a note on Thomas Ross’s play success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Ross
Henry Blossom
Lucky and Unlucky Houses in London
The World notes some houses in London seem to bring health happiness or misfortune to their occupants. Agents claim certain homes align with fortune while others attract illness or loss.
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London
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Fortescue
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King of Pollard Distributors
Tabes Fumt
the _ane verten
Via
Rabbit
ROSSA
Fortescue & Son
Sydney
Champion” Wool Press
Fredk. Mason
D. Hayes
Fredk
Mason Machinery Merchant
Samex Street
G.P.C
Rawes
Alcocide Company
Pitt St
Computing
Standard Computing Scale Company
Union Chambers
Pitt Street
Government House
A. H. Burnet & Co
Lamb's Linoleum
Daisy
Burgon Shearing Machine GO
Etamilton ST
Bridget
Papa
Jane
China
Gilbert
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