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Farm and Garden Operations for June.

In Europe December. Average temperature

Auckland 53.6, Wellington 47.9, Christchurch 45.0, Dunedin 44.5.

Farm.—Have plenty succulent oats for milch cows. Sow winter wheat in Dry weather, two bushels to imperial acre; steeped to prevent smut—one pound bluestone, seven gallons water, steep ten or twelve hours. Store stock give hay in wet weather and house them at night; boiled food, with handful of salt, better for fattening pigs than green food. Hedges may be cut any time next three months; this is the first rainy month. Pigs intended for bacon may now be killed. Open Drains while the ground is soft, the water will show the fall. Sow oats on fern land which has lain fallow, two bushels to one cwt. of guano per acre; harrow the ground once before sowing, then harrow in guano with seed; when about three inches high pass the roller over it.

Kitchen Garden.—Ground for parsnips, onions and carrots, for following season, manure, trench up in a rough state, so as the weather may act on it for a month or so. Tie up endive for blanching, gather leaves in one hand, then put two cabbage leaves round it; tie it with flax; will be fit to cut in a fortnight. Clear refuse off vacant ground, and trench it up till spring. Sow cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce for spring planting; they will not run to seed if sown this month; clear the slugs with lime. Sow a few red cabbage for pickling.

Fruit Garden.—Plant fruit trees end of this month. Trench two feet deep, and then mix about one gallon bonedust with the soil where each tree is to be planted; let the bonedust extend a little beyond the roots; it will Draw the roots towards it; if the soil is poor, one peck is not too much to one tree; incorporate well with the soil before planting; stake the trees and defer pruning till the sap begins to about September. Pruning is of great importance first year or two; trees obtained from the nursery, planted and not pruned, make very little growth the first year, and many of the shoots die back; and throw out towards the autumn a number of wiry shoots, half-ripened. Strawberries may now be planted on highly-manured, trenched soil, in rows two feet from row to row, and eighteen inches between each plant. Prune vines as soon as the leaves are shed. Trees established in soil may be pruned.

Flower Garden.—Roses, Dress with decomposed stable yard manure; if any are throwing up suckers, cut in the roots and re-plant. This should be done every three years to ensure good blooms, the ground trenched, manured, and a little fresh soil added. Plants to come in succession—crocus, narcissus, hyacinth, anemones; flower borders dug, walks trimmed, creepers cut and tied in; running roses cut back, especially old shoots that have a profusion of bloom.

Greenhouse.—Keep free circulation of air; water camelias and azalias. If the earth gets Dry, set the plant in a pail of water till the soil gets thoroughly wetted; forward cinerarias should be shifted; pick off dead leaves; keep down insects by fumigating; vines should be Drawn outside to harden and rest the wood. Cyclamens, gesnera, [unclear: sebrina], epiphyllum, euphorbia, jaquiniflora, begonia, hendersonli, and salvias will now be in flower; give water in the morning.