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Roses may be planted now, but pruning is not advisable until next 

 month. Where cuttings are required for propagation they may be taken 

 without entirely pruning the plants. If the soil in which roses are to 

 be planted is light or sandy, the addition of clay is necessary to insure 

 success. In deep sandy soils rose plants often produce very strong shoots 

 early in the season that fail to ripen and often die back in winter. 

 This would be prevented in a measure if the soil was rammed hard before 

 planting the rose. Any manure used when planting should be fairly 

 rotted, and worked into the soil below and around the site intended for 

 the plant, but should not be brought into contact with roots. Rose- 

 growers are usually anxious to know the probable value of the new 

 varieties that are distributed each season by the nursery trade. Several 

 of the new kinds offered this season are very promising including Mrs. 

 Myles Kennedy, silvery white, flushed and edged with pink; William 

 Shean, pink, a very promising variety ; Mrs. Peter Blair, deep yellow, 

 may not be large enough for exhibition, but a good rose for the garden ; 

 Madame Constant Soupert, yellow, shaded peach ; Mrs. G. W. Kershaw, 

 |,ink, resembling Belle Siebrecht ; Ladv Rossmore, reddish crimson ; 

 Warrior, deep red, a decorative rose resembling Papa Gontier, but much 

 darker in colour ; and Lena, also a decorative variety, producing long 

 buds of a bright apricot colour. 



Chrysanthemums should be removed from the beds where they were 

 grown to produce large blooms, and should be replanted in an open 

 position in unmanured soil. The sucker growths may be infested by 

 aphis and should be cleaned before being replanted. The easiest and 

 most effective method is to divide the stool or crown and dip the divisions 

 in a. strong nicotine solution. 



As dahlias die down the tubers mav be lifted and stored in a cool 

 dry place, free from draught. Where dahlias are ripening their seeds 

 and the weather is continuously moist, damping of the seed heads is 

 likely. It is well to remove anv that are at all ripe, and to clean the 

 seeds and dry them before a tire, otherwise the whole may be lost. 



Carnations should be tied to stakes. The winter blooming kinds 

 should now be showing flowering growths freely, and will be benefited 

 by a light application of blood manure or other rapid acting fertiliser. 

 Disbudding is necessary if fine blooms are desired. 



Kitchen Garden. 



Soil should I)e prepared for the reception of the various crops that 

 will be needed to supply the requirements of the cultivator during spring 

 and summer. In limited areas the cultivation of various vegetables that 

 require to be used when freshly gathered should be specially aimed at. 

 Most kinds require a cool, rich, well-drained soil to attain excellence, and 

 while many will succeed in light, sandy loams, others are produced in 

 fine condition with little diflficulty in soils of opposite character. In the 

 light warm soils at Brighton, cabbage, cauliflower, early potatoes, and 

 onions are grown in quantity ; at Coburg, in stiff clays, the best celery 

 in the metropolitan district is produced ; while the Burwood gardeners, 

 from soils of a loamv nature, provide a large proportion of the peas sold 

 in the market early. Large quantities of manure are applied regularly 

 in all classes of soils, due regard being paid to proper rotation. 



