August.

Kitchen Garden.—Finish the planting of all fruit trees, vines, &c.; and sow principal crops of cabbage, cauliflowers, carrots, lettuce, leek, onions, peas, spinach. &c. &c., where a frame is available; a few seeds of cucumbers, capsicum, tomatoes, melons, and vegetable marrows, may be sown. Finish the planting of rhubarb, seakale. horse, radish, Jerusalem artichokes, and early potatoes; plant out cabbage cauliflowers, leeks, lettuce, and onions.

Flower Garden.—Attend to the directions given last month, and as speedily as possible finish the planting of all evergreens and herbaceous plants. Sow largely of hardy annuals where wanted to bloom, thin those already well up, stake and tie up such plants as are getting tall and liable to be broken down with high winds. Pot plants should get a shift to larger sized pots before commencing their growth; be careful to keep cinerarias, calceolarius, &c., free from greenfly.

Farm.—The weather will now be getting sufficiently dry to permit wheat lands to be rolled. Commence potato planting in early districts. A few mangolds may be sown towards the end of the month. Prepare lands intended for chicory, mustard, tobacco, and similar crops, and the latter should be raised on seed beds.