A Monthly Journal of Floriculture and Horticulture, for Professional, Practical, and Amateur Gardenérs. 
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ing. Dig about the ground and enrich it. 
Plant out all the delicate little seedlings 
thal have been prepared-for the beds. Do 
not treat them as - though they were. so. 
many sticks, to be shoved anyhow into the 
ground. They are tender little things, and - 
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OPERATIONS FOR SEPTEMBER, 
Every day during this month brings ad- 
ditional evidence of the growing strength 
of the sun, the most striking feature being 
the bursting buds of spring. How fascinat- 
ing, and how marvellous, is the new mantle 
of spring! Note the skeleton branches of 
the fruit trees and the ornamental decidu- 
ous shrubs and trees. From. this apparent 
deadness of -branches there comes the 
swelling of life, with all, its power and 
potentiality of beauty. Who can say how} 
The scientist and the botanist can give us 
disquisitions upon the process of develop- 
ment from root to flower and seed, and 
back again, season after season. But the 
life, the power, the thing that apparently 
dies, and now forces itself into a beautiful 
resurrection with the first genial raya of 
sunshine in spring—thiat is the mystery 
that makes the learned man take a step 
back and bare his head to the great un- 
knowable. 
birds in music more or less intelligible, the 
artist’s pigments are plied with beautiful 
skill to paint the springtide of time, and 
the gardener conjures with Dame Nature 
to beautify his surroundings, and, lo! what 
a happy and lovely world we live in—so 
interesting, so instructive, “$0 mystifying, ® 
and so charming. Look at yonder orchard, : 
with its deadwood trees, and a closer exa- 
mination will reveal a potent power which, 
has been hoarded up all the winter, show- 
ing now in little hard knobs at the tips 
of the twigs. Here and there a sma#] bril- 
liant streak of red, unfolding itself 
‘slowly into rosy blossoms, whose bosom is 
carrying a luscious fruit. ~ 
Now is the time to assist’ Nature in her 
birth! of the new year’s fruitage and flower- 
The poets sing of it with the ~ 
_will repay care, producing good shapely 
plants and smiling flowers. Many people 
who love gardens, and who put a lot of good 
honest work into them do not seem to reas~— 
lise sufficiently the fact that gardening re-'~ 
quires a constant exercise of intelligence: 
upon what appear to be minor matters. 
The evidence of this is clearly denionstrat- 
ed in a garden where intelligence is exet- 
cised, ‘and in’ one where details are of no 
consequence. Plants should be carefully 
laid out, but the best of plans are useless 
if the details are not attended to, and now 
is the time to doit. For instance, nothing 
is moré serviceable when, laying out beds 
than 4 x 1 in. jarrah, but if it is set in the 
ground without due regard ito straight 
ness or gracefulness in curving, as the plan 
requires, the effect is abominable. a 
same remark. applies also to tiling, which 
looks very neéati if properly laid, but very 
ugly if it is put down carelessly. 
WEEDS, 
- Weeds are just now at their best. They 
are doing very well and strong with the 
past favorable season, and they will upset: 
all the.best calculations upon. flower gar-_ 
‘dens if they are not turned upside down or ~ 
vrooted out. Soursobs (oxalis) are making 
/a lovely display of brilliant golden yellow 
‘in some gardens and fields. They are the 
despair of some gardeners, and we have 
been plied with many questioners upon 
how to getirid of them. We can only repeat 
our advice to turn them up constantly. 
Iii is the only way. Constant exposure of 
the roots and bulblets to the sun will even- 
tually kill them off. What is true of sour- 
sobs is equally true of all other weeds, 
and to prevent them from growing old the 
besti way is to kill them off while they are 
young. ; 
