4 THE AUSPRALIAN GARDENER. 
The lower Garden 
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OPERATIONS FOR NOYEMBER. 
The season has been most favorable for 
flowers, and the wealth of bloom duriag 
last month ladened the air with a beautitul 
perfume. It seems a pity to cut flowers, 
especially Roses, but for the sake of the 
bushes the blooms should all be cut with 
long stems. The bushes will keep blooming 
all the longer.. The new shoots that will 
form will throw more flowers, Dahlia 
tubers should be planted vut. Chrysanthe- 
mums will need careful watching for with 
the tavurable season suckers wili come on 
apace. ‘These should be cut off. The 
bulbs should this month give much satis- 
faction, and it will be interesting to note 
what advance is being made with Gladioli. 
Annuals can be planted out, and do not for- 
get a plentiful supply of Zionias, Balsams, 
and Gaillardias. Cosmos of course will be 
plentiful, and the orange culored Klondyke 
will be mure ia evidence this seasun. We 
would like to see more attention paid to 
Ixias, to Lrises, and to the old time Mesem- 
brianthemuns. -Lne latter flswers provide 
&@ gorgeous array of colors in the summer 
‘gardens, uud so do the Portulacesas. Both 
require very little attention. Ds aot furges 
the mulching. 
Though it is a commendable ambition to 
strive to make your yard more attractive 
than your neighbor’s, it can never be ac- 
complished by beds of stiff design and 
gaudy color, by large and obtrusive ob- 
jects, oc by masses and mounds of un- 
sightly rock, statuesque fountains and the 
“ornaments” that are resorted to in so 
many cases. Such a course is the farthest 
possible from the dictates of Nature. 
Beauty, simplicity, and harmony are the 
three principal objects to be sought after, © 
and when these are obtained the effect can- 
not be otherwise than pleasing. Beauty 
without simplicity, in landscape gardening, 
is certainly unattractive. An object may 
be beautiful in itself, but when associated — 
with others its beauty may be enhanced or — 
_ otherwise, depending largely upon the 
‘colors placed in contact with it. Then, 
* too, the habit and general style has much 
to do with the effect. Some trees lose their 
beauty if placed where they merge: their 
individuality in a mass or clump of trees. 
How majestic the appearance of many of 
our isolated specimens, and how inferior 
do they appear when grouped with other 
trees. 
On the other hand, simplicity without 
beauty shows a lack of taste. Nothing can | 
be more pleasing than to see beautiful 
colors harmonising, no one more conspicu- 
oud than the others, and each showing to 
the best advantage. 
Again, we cannot omit harmony. It 
igs extremely difficult to lay out any gar- 
den in perfect proportion, with no discor- 
dant feature, if we omit any one of these 
three principles. Follow the dictates of 
Nature wherever possible. But even in 
this you may go to extremes. 
You can- 
not expect to make a house on a narrow 
city lot appear as though it were in the 
midst of a forest of native shrubs and 
trees. We frequently see a small lot so 
completely filled with plants that even a 
square foot of lawn is impossible, and 
where all colors, beautiful in themselves, 
become completely lost in the vast quan- 
tity of them. 
Architecture and landscape gardening 
are two quite distinct arts, but where we 
find one, we frequently meet with the 
other. Perhaps that is the reason you see 
the name of landscape architect. Archi- 
tects they may be, but landscape gardeners, 
never! Alas, the architects who are at the 
game time landscape gardeners are few. It 
will never do for an-architect to try his 
art on a stretch of lawn. His straight 
lines, equare corners, and sharp angles are 
just what we must avoid in landscaping. 
Natural curves are the most attractive ; 
have Nature’s lines in all your work. Usu- 
ally one who styles himself a landscape ar- 
chitect has as little conception of the work 
his title covers as he has of the work itself. 
Study the best' methods by which the 
full beauties of Nature may be developed 
and shown in the piece of land under con- 
sideration. The salient points of land are 
its long and broad views, its low and high 
spots, its distances, buildings and any 
other special features that it may be de- 
sirable to note in the line of general ob- 
These leading features are the 
Our eyes 
servation. 
keynote to all further progress. 
possess the power of gauging natural beauty - 
by the laws of contour, profile, and per- 
spective. When straight lines are placed 
on land to make the principal impression, 
the arrangement is false to nature and art. 
It is impossible to portray on paper the 
impressions of Nature; it is very difficult 
to even convey indications of them; they 
are at best like notes of music compared 
to the music itself. Study groups of some 
particular tree, watch their variatins in all 
sorts of light and shades and positions, and 
you will Jearn much. 
DISEASES OF CARNATIONS. 
By Cuaries Knopr. 
You will need to begin fumigating as 
soon as you can, for you; can get rid of the 
aphis and thrips much quicker before the 
plants begin to bud. Be sure you make a 
good job of it. Fumigate every night the 
first week, three nights the next, week, and 
then two, and finally one night every week ; 
so doing will keep the plants clear of 
thrips and aphis. 
Lear Spor. 
Tf you have had a great deal of rain in 
your locality, or more rain than you think 
the plants needed in the field, you must 
keep a close watch for this dreaded disease, 
as when the plants begin to make growth 
the disease will spread rapidly. You can 
_ easily discover this trouble, for at first it is 
a solid spot of purple, and as the plants age 
it will turn brown in centre, with small 
black spots, the whole being surrounded 
with a purple ring. This disease almost al- 
ways starts on the foliage, and will work 
November 1, 1904 
toward the stem. First, let your plants 
be in the dry side, and have a free circu 
Jation of dry air day and night. Of course, 
you do not want your plants to wilt, bu& 
at the time of watering keep the water off 
the plants. Syringe with the following 
solution, three times the first week andi 
twice a week after that, until the disease 
isgone. Use one pound sulphate of coppex 
dissolved in hot water; two quartg am— 
monia; dilute this with thirty gallons of 
water. This disease and solution I have 
spoken of before, but just at this time of 
the year, when we have our plants all 
planted, this is more apt to trouble us. 
Sometimes this disease is on the plants im 
the field, and at planting time, when one 
has to syringe his plants a great deal, It im 
sure to cause its active growth. Dry atmos- 
phere, in conjuuction with less water at the 
roots, is a good check, but one is compelled 
to use the solution in order to get rid of it 
entirely. You can easily tell when the 
disease is checked, for the leaves dry up; 
these should bé picked off and burned. - 
Surpius GRowTs. “ 
Some varieties, when growing in the 
field, will appear to be extra fine plants, 
but you should examine them closely now 
that you have them established in their 
winter quarters. When topping in the fielé 
and in the house one cannot help skipping 
a few now and then, no matter how careful 
he may be. The heart, as I term it, wilk 
sometime break off ; this will grow to a cer- 
tain stage and then small weak shoots wilE 
appear from the top of this shoot; these, 
from all appearances, will make a fine-look- 
ing plant, but the shoots should be cut off 
as low as three joints—that is, three joints | 
that you are sure will give you good breaks, 
for, if you leave these to bloom, they wilh. 
not only give you poor flowers on weal 
stems, but will affect your plants for the 
rest of the season. 
REPLANTING. 
Be sure you take up enough plants fron: 
the field to replace those that die out. Pot: 
them and treat them the same as yow 
would those you planted in the bench. This 
“vou will find better than to replant directly 
in the bench, having to shade each plant. 
The bench might not look as well with 
vacancies here and there, but if the plants 
in pots are not neglected they will soon he 
ready to set in the bench, and will begin te 
grow at once. Be sure you pot a good many 
more than you think you may need. 
MUICAL EDUCATION. 
There are many country homes, and also home« 
in the suburbs, where gardeners and them 
families greet an evening’s recreation with music 
asa great boon. Soit should be. The difficulty 
very often lies in the fact that while the piano or 
organ is there the musician is wanted. Te 
supply this pleasure we are introducing from 
America a Chart of Musical! Chords, arranged by 
Mr. Charles E. Pratt. By the use of these 
Chords, whith any ordinary intelligent person 
can learn quickly without any previous know- 
ledge of music, an accompaniment can_ be played 
to any song yet composed. [n addition to the 
Chart the publishers supply a book of popular 
songs, containing 48 pages, all for the very 
modest price of 2s. 6d. and postage. On receipt: 
of 23. 6d, and postage 2d. we will send the chart 
and music to any address in the Commonwealth, 
An advertisement appears on page I6. 
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