Today In New Zealand History

July 26, 2019

By AHNZ

January

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The opening month of the year corresponds to an English July in season
and in temperature- in drying wind and in all the characteristics of
an English midsummer, with its bright sunshine, dry atmosphere, and
increasing warmth, slightly intensified. These atmospheric conditions
usually attain their greatest intensity about the end of the present
and commencement of the ensuing month. It is, therefore, a matter of
peculiar importance in gardening to finish the planting and sowing of
winter vegetables during the earlier period of the month, while the
ground still retains a portion of the moistur acquired during the
usually showery month of December; for if the operations of planting
and sowing are carried on while the soil is dry, the sun bright, and
the winds parching, the chances of successful gardening must
necessarily become greatly diminished.

Ref. Southern Provinces Almanac, 1868

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