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How to Prepare a Garden.

Many people commence the prepara- tion of their gardens too early in the season, before the soil has become suffic- iently dry and friable. If digging is done when the earth is wet and ciogzy, the operation causes the soil to become like unbaked bricks, which afterwards vives a large amount of additional labor to sufficiently pulverize it and render it

suitable for seed-sowing and for setting |

out young plants. It should not, there- fore. be commeveed until the sun and drying wiods have evaporated all excess of water. seldom done by first-class gardeners, the the flattened spading fork being used in preference, as the soil can be more thor- oughly and better pulverized with it than

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with aspade. It is also a much better | implement for spading among fruit trees, | shrubs, and hardy plants in the flower) garden, as it does not eut and destroy the |

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s irface roots.

Preparing the soil for the kitchen- garden is the first work to be done, as many vegetable seeds do not vegetate freely if sown when the ground is too warm. Tho first operation is thespread- ing of the manure, horse manure being the Lest for general purposes. sheep, or chicken manure is to be used, it should be first prepared by mixing ia with plenty of good dry soil, and break- ing down ond pulverizing all lumps. This will enable it to be more evenly and easily spread, for if left in a lumpy state one plant is liable to have too much manure, while the other may not have any, or at any rate less than its share. Horse or stable manure should have all the long straw, corn stalks or other rub- bish well shaken out of it. It is not necessary for ordinary garden purposes that the manure should be rotted. It may be upplied quite fresh, only less of it being used than when rotted, as it is much strooger. Manure should always be very evenly spread, and in small quantities at a time, as when exposed to the action of the sun and the high, dry- ing winds of March and April, a large proportion of its strengh is evaporated, and so wasted. The spading fork, when used in dizging unoccupied soil, should always be inserted nearly perpendicular- ly to the depth of eight or nine inches, the slices are not being more than five or six inches wide; if much wider the soil cannot be sufficiently pulveized, and if the fork is not inserted to a sufficient depth, the reot of the young plant will not pene- trate deep enough to enable them to withstand any drought.

The operation of trenching, or digging the coil two or more spades deep, is generally wrongly performed, as the bot- tom soil is brought to the surface and the top soil buried below. In such cases the soil brought to the surface is almost always poor and of a hungary nature, totally unfitted for young plant life’ The proper way of doing it is to open a trench two or more feet wide and a spade deep, throwing the top soil to one side, then spread some manure in the bottom of the trench, aud spade it into the bottom soil ; on this throw the top soilof the next trench, incorporating with it some manure and so on, trench after trench, until the plot is finished, filling up the last trench with the top soil taken from the first treach.

In spading among fruit trees or shrubs, the fork should be much more inclined in the hend, and only thio layers of soil turned over, for it thrust deeper the roots near the surface will be broken and de- stroyed, to the great injury of the tree. Trees and shrubs require very little manure at any one time, only needing as muchas will prevent the exhaustion of the soil by their beariog fruit, and this doeS not require to be deeply dug in. Flower beds should not be spaded until all the plants have made their appearance above ground, for if done too soon they aré liable to be injured by the fork or spade. They do not need mueh manure, as a general rule.

It is a very common praetice for men who are employed to work in gardens, es- pecialiy when spading among groups of shrubs, to work the beds much higher in the centre than at the sides. ‘his i wrong, as it throws all the rainsfall from the centre to the edges, and the central shrubs do not get their proper supply of moisture. In all cases the surface should be kept quite level. It is a sure siga that the so-called gardener is an ignoramus, and does not understand bis business, ‘The operation of spuiding is considered by most peopl. asa very simple one which avy laborer can per- pertorm, but itis really a te. whether the man employed todo itisa |. ctical gardener or only acommon laborer. In the very many cases where a regular gardener cavnot be kept the work has to

be done by acommon laborer, but in such cases his work should be supervised by an intelligent employer for the success of the garden for the season may largely depead upon its being properly done at first. If the soil is not well pul- verized, seeds sown in it do not vegetate freely, or they grow irregularly, and young plants set out in it do not take root freely, ond in the case of long-rooud

vegetables, produce deiormed, tough wt

stringy roots. —Harper’s Bazar.

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To be sold by Public Auction, at the Court House in Georgetown, in King’s County, in Prince Edward Island, on Friday, the 23rd day of May next, A. D. 1879, at Twelve o'clock, noon, by virtue of a Power of Sale in an Indenture of Mortgage dated the twenty-fifth day of March, 1878, made between Angus A. Campbell and Mary Campbell, his wife, of the one part, and Neil McLeod, of the other part, —

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