A Monthly Journal of Floriculture and Horticulture, for Professional, Practical, and Amateur Gardeners. 
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he Blower # Garden 
OPERATIONS FOR JANUARY. 
The month of December was so unlike 
the usual Australian summer weather that 
the preparations of gardeners may almost 
be repeated with success for January. It 
was more lixe winter than summer without 
the cold. Thus it happens that gardeners 
may go on planting out summer annuals 
and the perennials, but with some regard 
to the fact that spells of heat will come 
upon them quickly. In this the tender 
plants will require some nursing, careful 
attention being paid to mulching, water- 
ing, and shading. We hear a number of 
amateurs sighing over their annuals and 
giving up with a declaration that they will 
have no more ofthem. They are too much 
bother. But we would still advise them 
not to neglect the opportunities of making 
tneir gardens gay, and with a little 
patience and perseverance will succeed 
with that beauteous floral reward that al- 
ways comes with multicolored variation 
and brightness during the summer months. 
Far more brilliant effects can be obtained 
during summer than in winter. It is 
Nature’s compensation for the trying heat. 
A. brightly blooming garden cheers the 
heat-belated worker, while on the other 
hand, a miserable, neglected, surrounding 
of death and weeds has but the effect of 
making the general conditions harder to 
bear. The cooling effect: of a nicely-kept 
lawn, bordered with bright blooms is worth 
working for, as anyone can testify who 
walks out of a hot street into such condi- 
tions of neatness, coolness, and beauty. 
We were very much struck with an article 
we read in “The Gardener’ upon how to 
bed out a garden, and the effect should 
be worth striving for. It is artistic and 
easy to accomplish with a little effort.. The 
weather up to the present has been so 
phenomenally mild in temperature that it. 
might be attempted even so late. Evi- 
dently intended for spring operations, our 
summer has hardly begun, so that spring 
conditions may be said to prevail, and those 
who are practical enough in the art of 
gardening will readily be : able to, adapt the 
suggestions to their conditions of climate 
and general surroundings. 
When beds are to be filled, upon a lawn. 
for instance, or in the all- important front 
of the house, the gardener should make up 
his mind first whether he is prepared. to 
take more trouble as the weeks pass by, 
or whether the one planting is to be the 
last this summer and autumn. 
A pretty permanent bed is to be made 
by alternating Fuchsias and scarlet Ver- 
benas, Heliotropes, and pink Ivy-leaved 
Geraniums, white Marguerites and double 
scarlet, pink, or salmon Geraniums, or yel- 
low Marguerites and blue Verbenas. 
A bed of white Verbenas with some 
Cannas in it, one of yellow Violas 
and Heliotropes, of Fuchsias and Chilian 
Beet; of French Marigolds and Caladiums, 
and African Marigolds. Stocks and 
Asters, Cornflowers and Godetias, on the 
contrary, with many other bedding plants, 
the names of which will readily occur to 
memory, will pass through their best 
period and become more or less unsightly. 
These should only be used, therefore, where 
the gardener does not desire permanent 
beauty, or where he is willing to introduce. 
other plants during summer. 
A bed of white Violas and rose pink tall 
Peony-flowered or incurved Asters 1s a very 
pretty sight in summer, but when the 
Asters’ glory is departed they should be 
lifted, and budding dwarf Michaelmas 
Daisies be slipped into their places. This 
can be done without in the least injuring 
the latter. 
A bed of purple Stocks surrounding a 
centre of miniature Sunflowers is a favorite 
scheme of mine, but the Stocks are past 
their prime early, whereas the Helianthus 
go on as late as possible. What is the re- 
medy for this evil? Why, to put out, in 
the Stocks’ place, some young pot plants of 
