A Monthly Journal of Floriculture and Horticulture, for Professional, Practical, and Amateur Gardeners. 
VOL. IL — N O, 19 (HERS at the G.P.O., Adelaide, for 
transmission by post as a newspaper. 
BUSINESS ENTERPRISE. 
Adelaide Station Flower Stall. 
Messrs. Smith & Menzel, nurserymen, of Ald- 
gate, have now become established in the city, 
having opened a flower, plant, and seed stall on 
the main assembly platform of the spjendid new 
railway station at Adelaide. The stall has a com- 
plete glass space of 88 feet, and is a decided orna- 
ment to the platform, especially with its tasteful 
-decorations of flowers in ornamental vases and 
pot plants in choice variety. This new move of . 
Smith & Menzel sould be a great boon to the 
flower loving public who travel, for to be able to 
pick up a pot plant, a bunch of flowers, or a few 
seeds and take them at onceinto a carriage 
without having to carry them about the streets 
The firm’s specialties, such as their splendid 
gladioli and delphiniums should make a magnifi- 
cent display. Carnations, petunias, roses, and 
tuberous begonias will be other specialties which 
will be on view in the greatert variety of choice 
and new sorts. Flowering shrubs and climbers, 
choice annuals and perennials, of all the very 
best sorts will be represented by euts of each sort 
for country and city residents to select from, and 
with the very large stock of terns, palms, 
asparagus, ornamental leaved begonias, pelar- 
goniums, and many other lines the firm should 
make a very creditable show. Mr. Fred. Smith, ° 
the senior partner, will conduct the stall and be 
always available for advice as to what, where, and 
when to plant. We wish the firm all the success 
that their enterprise and pluck deserves. 
. Correspondents. 
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The Flower Garden 
OPERATIONS FOR DECEMBER. 
Heat, mulching, and watering are the 
principal elements with which the gar- 
dener has to deal during this month. 
Mulching the surface of the garden plots 
with stable manure, or anything else that 
will protect them from the direct rays of 
the sun, will be found an astonishing 
economy in the water bill. Not only in 
money, but in time and labor. The plots 
should be thoroughly watered once or 
twice a week, and the next need be only 
a little sprinkling to freshen up the 
plants. To wash their faces, as it were, 
after the scorching heat and particles of 
dust. igen ra 
ROSES. — 
The reception at the courts of the 
queen of flowers is now just about over, 
although some of the Roses can be kept 
blooming by constantly picking off the old 
blooms and cutting them back to outside 
‘If the plants are suffering from 
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mildew it is a sign of weakness. Sul- 
phurise them to clean the leaves, and 
apply some liquid manure to help the 
plant, by its own efforts, to throw off the 
disease. 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
Chrysanthemums have been growing 
apace up to now, when they should he 
pinched back and cut down to six inches. 
Some growers advocate reducng the plants 
to two or three inches of the strongest 
shoots. Tne after treatment will depend 
upon the kind of plants required. If for 
show purposes one stem will carry the one ~ 
bloom required. This practice is all 
right for show fanciers whose aim is at 
size of bloom. But the cottage gardener 
likes to see a plant worthy of the name, 
and should leave enough of it when cut- 
ting to make a decent show of blooms. — 
PETUNIAS. 
Petunias may be planted out, choosing 
a cool day, and, if possible, catching a 
shower of rain. These delightful flowers 
should be grown in the open beds more: 
then they are at present. Few flowers 
command better attention, as they have 
an elegance of their own that distinguishes 
them at once when in bloom, and they last 
well, too. For pot plants they are most 
excellent. In a four or five-inch pot 
plant half-a-dozen close around the edge. 
The double varieties are really superb 
blooms, and when well grown the single 
flowers are finely veined and colored. 
MARIGOLDS AND ZINNIAS. 
If your garden has to grow by itself, 
without any attention whatever, put in 
some French Marigolds, double and single. 
They bloom profusely, good colorings, and 
will grow anywhere and anyhow, and in 
the droughtiest summer. So will Zinnias, 
though with a little attention they make 
better blooms. The hotter the sun the 
more they seem to smile at other flowers. 
that wilt and wither under trying summer 
conditions. 
