The July Number of . 
The Nusttalian Gardener 
Flower Garden— 
Chrysanthemums — Annuals and Peren- 
nials-—Nursery Bed — Roses—Bulbs 
—Windbreaks—Plants under Hedges 
—Lawns 
Suapenouse——Petunias— Pelargoniums 
Heaths—Begonias— Camelias ; 
Srovenouse — KERNERY — Pits -anp 
‘PRAMES 
The Kitchen Garden. 
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CONTAINS— 
Orchard— 
Planting — Combating Insects — Late 
Transplanting—The Spanish Cédlin 
Moth Parasite 
Agriculture— 
Green Manuring—An Interesting Ques. 
tion —Maize Growing in Gippsland— 
Growing Lucerne without Irrigation 
-- Bore Manure — The Successful 
farmer 
The Garden. 
By THE OBSERVER. 
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Chrysanthemums. 
Where chrysanthemums have been left 
until late in pruning the plants are still 
jn bloom, and there is good reason for 
delay in cutting back a portion of the 
plants, because we have the flowers with 
us fora much longer time. It is possible 
to get blooms very early as well as late by 
regulating the cutting back. Those plants 
that flowered early or at the regulation 
time should have been cut close down 
When the flowers had svithered, and by 
this time should have made about 4 in of 
new growth, after being cut down and 
turned out of the pots and placed in a 
shady corner. If so, the plants should 
now be pulled in pieces, and the best 
rooted and stoutest stems should be re- 
planted in good, rich, sandy loam. The 
Test of the plants can be given to some 
. friends who connot afford to buy single 
plants, or they can be planted in back 
‘Corners, 
Annuals and Perennials. 
Plant out all hardy annuals and peren™ 
Hials that are large enouzh to be dealt 
With ; also any half-hardy plants that 
ave been raised for experiment. These 
Should first be tried in the most sheltered 
Places, and later in more exposed spots. 
Asters will withstand a lot of cold when 
they have grown up a bit, but are rather 
tender whilst quite young Phlox drum- 
Mondii, French and African marigolds, 
and many other desirable plants which 
are termed half-hardy in Europe, will 
Stow in our open beds when they have 
ecome established. If there areno plants 
Teady it is possible to buy pots of seed- 
Ings at the shops or from the nursery 
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The Da‘r ;— 
The Treatment of Milk Fever—Rules for: 
Cream Snppliers — Inferior Dairy — 
_ Tinware—Prevention of Tube :culosis. 
The Poultry Yard— 
The Muscovy Duck—Do Incubators Pay? 
—Fattening Poultry 
Miscellaneous. 
Etc. Ete. 
gardens. The propri-tors of some of the 
best and most reliable seedshops are pub- 
lishing free illustrated and descriptive 
catalogues. When buying a few :h lings 
worth of seeds or plants it is right to ask 
for one of these as a guile. A visit to 
the Botanic Gardens occasionally will 
also give a lot of valuable and practical 
knowledge, 
Nursery Bed. 
Make a nursery bed 5 ft wide 4 in deep 
and any desired lenuth on a piece of hard 
ground by laying bricks around the edge 
or fixing boards or planks on edge. and 
fill level with rich sandy mould Make a 
roof over this of sufficient height to allow 
of access for weeding and watering. Score 
or indent the surface of the soil half an 
inch at intervals of 2 in ‘and thinly sow 
seeds of tender and half-hardy annus 
for experiment. Cover the seeds with 
light soil from an eighth of an inch or 
more according to the size of the seed 
and press down lightly, then water with a 
-mist, so as to avoid washing the seeds out. 
‘Do not sow many seeds of each kind, but 
try a few balsas, asters, amarants, varie- 
gated beets, kales, gallardias, lagunarias 
and other gourds, browallias, cureopsis, 
capsicums and other peppers, cup ea, 
datura, euphorbia, gomphrena, helianthus, 
heliotrope, hibiscus, ipomea, mariynia, 
mimulus, nicctiane varieties, portulaca, 
potentilla, rhodanthe, salipglossus, salvias, 
tagetes, vines, waitzia, xeranthemum, 
zinnia, and many others. Of many of the 
above there are several varieties, differiig 
materialiy from others in shape, size and 
color of the flowers and foliage. Of 
course there will be some failures, but the 
remainder of each packet of seeds can be 
kept until later. Wait until the plants 
are well started and then plant with a 
nice ball of soil attached to the roots. 
Carnations, pinks, picotees, and all 
others of this family should be planted 
at once. All surplus from greenhouse 
and shadehouse should be planted in the 
open beds. It is injurious to crowd plants 
. 
For color effects it is desir 
iresenes,. 
anywhere. 
able to grow chenopodiums, 
echeverias, variegated beets and kales, 
coleus, amirants, and o hers, some ‘of 
which are ready to plant now ; whilst 
others are tender, and should be left until 
end. of September. Every imaginable 
shade of color almost can be secured by 
this method. : 
Antirrhinums, chrvsanthemums, pent- 
stemons, dipl a , spiraes, plum‘ago, and 
plants haviug « weaker nabit of growth 
may now be lifted, aivided, and replinted. 
in fresh places, becinse the old spot is 
not suitable for them, and the new plants 
will be stronger ant wore healthy. 
Kemp's hoses 
Have attaned the lead for 
quality combined with 
hardiness. 
All varietics in stock worth 
growing, 
Winners of the Victorian 
HNg eS 
Champion and Gold Medal, 
Half Standards, 10s doz, 
1s each: 
Dwarfs, 6st) 7s doz, 6d to 9a 
each 
Hardy Trees, - hrubs,Climbers 
Fruit Trees, Vines 
Hedge Plauts, &e. 
H. KEMP, hails Park, S.A. 
Telephone 12%2. 
