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Nasturtiums. 



Lightly lo'v'd and coldly nam'd, 

 By the roses' glory shamed ; 



Left with penury of song, 

 To enrich some barren wall, 

 And receiye no thanks at all ; 

 In thy burning loyeliness, 

 I beheld the fire and stress 

 . Of that bea'ity mix'd with life. 

 Whence such splendour hath its 

 birth, 



Lihe the fairest things on earth. 



Wine-dark petals, amber fleck'd, 

 OranTC cups suffus'd and streak'd 

 Lin'd -with primro.se, veined with 

 red — 



Fitting vessels every one 

 For the ichor of the sun ? 

 Thou shalt drape the poor man's 

 fence 



In thy royal opulence ; 



And, where roses rarely come, 

 Filling some dark coivrt with 

 flame. 



Have, like them, thy m>eed of 

 fame. 



" Pall Mall Gazette." 



J-wiw ' somathing about 

 7«VF m -th' da of breeding, rearing 

 and managing Live Stock ? Let 

 me have it if it will only fill the 

 kMk mt a Pact 0Mr4. 



Plants of a kind should be 

 massed, tojrHher rather than in- 

 discriminately mixed. 



Som'e thought should be given to 

 the relative height of plants when 

 planning the garden. 



Re generous in giving away the 

 llowers and you will have more, 

 as this will prevent seeding which 

 checks the growth of the plants. 



Most flowering plants do best 

 ill a rich soil and all are better 

 if the soil is kept cultivated 

 around them. 



A loose soil mulch is a great 

 moisture p'reserver but a hard 

 surface gives it off. 



Keen the sweet peas well water- 

 ed and a dose of weak manure 

 water twice a week will be a help. 

 Keep the surface well stirred. 



Hollyhocks are to be had in a 

 great variety of shades in pink, 

 white, crimson, salmon, purple and 

 almost black. ' They are showv, 

 stately plants and appear to good 

 advantage against a back ground 

 such as a building, fence, shrub- 

 bery or hedge. Try a packet 

 where they are to grow. 



Have you ever tried the annual 

 aster as a pot plant in the shade 

 or glass houise. They will flower 

 splendidly in a five inch pot. They 

 like a fairly sandy sweet soil 

 which has been well mixed with a 

 third part of old manure. After the 

 seedling bed, start them in a 3in. 

 pot. 



If your orarden is without a root 

 or two of perennial aster, or so- 

 called Michelmas Daisy, you are 

 iTiissing a good thing for siummer 

 and autumn flowering. A nice-root- 

 ed plant can be bought at the nur- 

 .series for a few pence. It is one 

 of the simplest things to grow 

 and quite one of the hardy bri- 

 gade. 



Do not forget a sowing of the 

 graceful and dainty Hunnemannia, 



This is one of the things which sel- 

 dom replants well and sometimes 

 refuses altogether. Sow thinly 

 where they arc to flower or in ])ot« 

 which can be transplanted without 

 disturbance. 



How about Delphiniums ? For- 

 tunately it is not necessary to 

 wait to raise seed. A few nicely- 

 rooted plants, quite a nice collec- 

 tion in fact, can be bought at the 

 nurseryman's. There is hardly 

 anything which will give a better 

 return. 



If you are interested in native 

 plants, shrubs and trees, now is the 

 best time of the vear to show the 

 seed. Our native bush beauties de- 

 serve a great deal more attentioD 

 than they receive. 



Keep off the ground where it is 

 wet is a very useful maxim, for it 

 applies to all cultural operations of 

 all flowers at all seasons of the 

 year. Of cq'irse with light sandy 

 soil it is not of much importance 

 but be careful with the sticky 

 ground . 



Before planting we should have 

 a definite object in view. If there 

 is no reason for planting, then do 

 not plant. 



Bedding plants are usually em- 

 ployed to add color to the scene. 

 Color enhances the beauty of for 

 mal desiirns, and so we will always 

 appreciate the merits of bedding 

 plants, properly usied, because they 

 add permanent color and pleasing 

 de.sign, to scenes that would other- 

 wise seem dull and unattractive. 



Anything that has a herbaceous 

 top which dies down annually 

 whilst the root continues to live is 

 a reasonable definition of herbace- 

 ous perennial. A shrub is a much 

 more permanent and woody plant 

 and does not come within this 

 m.eaning at all. 



Verbenas are very desirable for 

 masses of colour and ane useful in 

 bedding or to border large beds oi 

 other plants. The seed is -rathei 

 slow to germinate. The flowers 

 drop too readily to be of much 

 use when picked for decoration. 

 Some are pleasantly fragrant. 



