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taken that no organic maraure comes into contact with the bulbs. Hardy 

 annuals may be transplanted, and where such are growing thickly in patches 

 where it is intended they shall bloom, they should be thinned and kept 

 free from weeds. 



Kitchen Garden. 



Preparation of soil for future planting, and spwing seeds of various 

 vegetables for spring use may be done. Planting out onions and aspara- 

 gus from earlier sowings ; preparation of manure for hot-bed where it is 

 intended to raise tender plants early ; and weeding and cleaning growing 

 crops are seasonable operations in this department. 



THE PROCLAIMED PLANTS OF VICTORIA. 



{Continued from page 336.) 



Alfred J. Ewart, D.Sc, Ph.D., F.L.S., Government Botanist: and 

 J. R. Tovev, Herbarium Assistant. 



Blackberry Bramble. 



Rubus fnitieosus, Linne. (Rosacece.) 



The struggling stems arise from a perennial rootstock, without 

 underground creeping shoots ; the flowering stem, biennial, or of a few 

 years duration, sometimes nearly erect, but more frequently arched, 

 straggling or prostrate, often rooting, and forming fresh plants at the ex- 

 tremitv, usually armed with prickles, either stout and hooked or thin and 

 straight, with stiff hairs, or glandular bristles, or a short down, all 

 variously intermingled or occasionally wanting. Stipules awl-shaped, or 

 linear, inserted a short way up the leafstalk. Leaflets rather large, and 

 coarse, either 3 or 5, the 2 or 4 lower ones inserted together at some 

 distance below the terminal one, egg-shaped toothed, more or less downy, 

 the midribs as well as the stalks usually armed with small hooked prickles. 

 Flowers white or pink, in panicles at the ends of the branches. Fruit 

 black, or very rarely dull red, not separating readily from the receptacle, 

 the calvx usually turned down under it, or seldom closing over it. 



An introduction from Europe and Asia. This hardv deciduous 

 trailer has spread to a great extent, and is difficult to eradicate, especially 

 when in hedges. In open ground it is easily kept under by cutting down 

 to the base twice a year. Systematic eradication involves however the re- 

 moval of the rootstock and the prevention of flowering and fruiting. 



Proclaimed for various districts. 



