August, 1913 



THK rjARDEN AND FIELD. 



Editorial Notice*. 



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ADDRESS— M, Carrie St., Adelaide. 

 TMsphoBs, 1384. 



Garden Notes. 



Where soil is wet or sticky, there is 

 only one thing to do, and that is — to 

 keen off it. When it is just moist and 

 mellow — keep working it. 



Cyclamens are now, or soon will be, 

 showing their flower buds, and will be 

 benefited by occasional doses of 

 manure water. If natural manure is 

 used, let the infusion be quite weak. 

 Guano which is a very handy manure 

 in the garden and shadehouse, will do 

 a lot of good at the rate of half an 

 ounce to the gallon of water. 



Where carnations have been raised 

 from autumn-sown seed, they should 

 be ready for putting out in permanent 

 quarters. Let the soil be fairly light 

 and fairly rich, and what is of more 

 importance, let it be well worked. 



Gladiolus, hyacinth, &c., will be 

 showing flower, help them along with 

 a good dose of liquid manure, but do 

 not continue when they are coming 

 into full flower. 



The colu of June ana Ju' has had 

 a very acceptable effect on slugs and 

 snails, but they have not all gone to 

 glory, worse luck. The best way to 

 cure the slug trouble is to prevent it. 

 T'-- advice to do away with all har- 



CARNATIONS. 



LANE'S NOVELTIES— STRONG 

 PLANTS NOW READ-^. 

 INSPECTION INVITED, 



Cut Flowers of all kinds always ott 

 hand and cut to Order. 



J. O. LANE, 



NURSERYMAN, WALKERVILLE 



liours is about the stalest tiling in 

 gardening, but it's goo<l (or all lliat. 



(lonliie and single, and tlicy are all 

 yellow of various shades. 



r.eds of liulhs must l>e kipt ciitirt-ly 

 free from grass and weeds, and the 

 hoc used between the rows after 

 every rain. The keeping open of the 

 soil is one of the chief points in tlie 

 success of bulb cultivation. 



.\ packet of ranunculus seed sowfK. 

 now, in a ho\ or pan, will give enough 

 plants to fill a fair-sized bed. They 

 will ilower a few months from the 

 time of sowing, and may be recom- 

 lucnded as giving a quick and splen- 

 did return for very little trouble. 



The true gardener — the enthusiast 

 —takes a great delight in overcoming 

 all difiiculties, and when he conquers 

 them he only rests for a short time — 

 a very short time indeed — before he 

 tackles another subject, to be in its 

 turn mastered. 



Coal ashes are a very useful safe- 

 guard against the attacks of slugs. A 

 sharp, gritty sample is apt to tickle 

 up Mr. Slug in a tender place, and he 

 generally refuses to face this simple 

 barricade. Ashes do not require the 

 constant renewal that lime or soot do, 

 and are, besides, less conspicuous 

 than the former at all events. 



Xever used tarred twine for tying 

 up roses or any other plants. Even if 

 the tie is loosely made the presence of 

 the tar is harmful to plants. 



One of the prettiest spring-bloom- 

 ing annuals is the rhodante, a native 

 of Western Australia. It is an ever- 

 lasting and the plants are easily 

 raised, but the utmost difficulty is ex- 

 perienced in protecting them from 

 ravages of the slug and snail when 

 planted out in the open border. Keep 

 them in small pots or pricked out in- 

 to boxes until they are nearly full 

 grown, and then transplant them to 

 the border. Even then they must be 

 protected by a zinc r.ing or a nightly 

 dusting with the "lime bag." 



Herbaceous sunflowers, or Helian- 

 thus, bloom profusely in the summer 

 and autumn, and their gay flowers are 

 useful for cutting. They do best in 

 sunny places; but they are thirsty 

 plants ,and if water is withheld they 

 scon suffer. They soon spread, and 

 this is sometimes an objection to flieir 

 cultivation. Sometimes they are plant- 

 ed in boxes or large pots, and tl^en 

 sunk in the soil, so that their roots 

 will not spread. They are all gros" 

 feeders, and d.^light in a deep, ri~.h 

 soil. There are many kinds, both 



Don't fcKgit the wi'^tcri.i for this 

 season's planting. ..iiat are its uses? 

 Well, just a few:. To cover a house 

 wall ,to frame a window, to beautify a 

 verandah, to decorate a porch, to 

 clotlie an old and useless tree, to form 

 an arch, (o make a shady walk, to 

 make a screen, to train on a tripod, to 

 ramble over a pile of logs, to droop 

 over a bank, or, failing all else, to 

 grow in bush form. It is hardy, 

 quick growing, pliant to handle, and 

 not at all shy of the knife or seca- 

 teurs. You may possibly equal, but 

 certainly not beat it. 



It is quite useless to apply liquid 

 manure to newly-planted Roses, be- 

 cause their damaged roots are not in 

 a condition to take it up, and even if 

 they did take it up they could hardly 

 be in a position to properly utilise it. 

 If liquid manure is given to recently- 

 planted Roses, the recently-disturbed 

 soil would be liable to become sod- 

 den, and therefore prove not only 

 useles, but injurious to the Roses. 

 Horse-droppings do not, as a rule, 

 make a very strong liquid manure. 

 Cow manure is more valuable in this 

 respect. Liquid manure is of no defi- 

 nite composition, however, and gar- 

 deners regulate it by examining to see 

 what colour it is when .a small quan- 

 tity is raised in the hand. If you de- 

 sire to use it weak, it should be lighter 

 in colour than pale ale. 



Though a Cockscomb is a Celosia, 

 a Celosia is not necessarily a Cocks- 

 comb, the latter name being given to 

 a Celosia with a flattened flower head 

 'suggestive of the comb of the farm- 

 yard rooster. Both Cockscombs and 



Roses ! Roses ! 



Roses! 



LASSCOCK'S 



Roses ape the Best! 



They are Hardy, "\A''ell-Grown and True to 

 Name. 



The National Rose Society's Selection. 

 12 Best Garden Roses, 12/- ; 12 Best Exhi- 

 tion Ro*es, 12/-; 12 Best Climbing Roees, 9 

 A strong- stock of the new Dark Rose ED 

 WARD MAWLEY, 1/6 ea. Orders boo)fed 

 now, and sent out from end of May. My 

 Nurseries are open for inspection. Quality 

 can be had at the Lockleys Nurseries, or at 

 my Branch, Port Adelaide, or Central Market 

 every Friday and S»turday. 



'Phone, Henley 34. 



