PITS AND FRAMES 
Keep these filled with seedlings and 
cuttings recommended in foregoing notes. 
One pit should le used as a forcing 
medium by use of fresh short manure 
from a stable. 
- Queer Food for Plants 
‘Tlow do yon keep your palms looking 
so fine and healthy? usked a young 
housekeeper of an old one whose apart- 
ment is a perfect bower of ferns and 
pilus. 
‘Tied them oysters all Wunter” said the 
successful one, ‘ Whenever we had oysters 
for dinner I dig up the earth a little 
round the roots of the plants and put an 
oyster in each’ 
‘Himmel!’ exclaimed the third who 
was a German, ‘I pour the stale beer on 
amine always. It is fine for them.’ ’ 
‘Mercy,’ said the young housekeeper, 
~~“ Twoulln’t know whether I was running 
2 conservatory or a table d’hote, 
A New Rose 
Climbing Frau Karl Druschki. 
This is a rose 1 kely to hecome very 
popularin gardens, ‘says the London Gar- 
eden. It originated in the nursery of Win. 
Lawrenson, Hutton Gate, Gainsborough, 
and received an award of merit from the 
Royal Horticultural Society in the Spring 
f this year. 
It is of vigorous growth, and plants 
grown under glass in Mr Lawrenson’s 
uiurscry have nade 12 to 15 feet of wood 
in a season, and bent duwn with the 
weiuht of flowers. It will bloom in the 
dead of Winter, the flowers opening a 
very pule pink color, which passes to pure 
white, as in the parent. Its freedom of 
flowering is remarkable, 
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THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
A Few Hints 
Immense damage is done every year by 
the white grub, the larva of the May 
beetle. Various remedies are mentioned. 
Our plan is to plow the potting soil (a 
sod) very shallow, and only pile it in very 
dry weather, when it is dust dry In this 
condition not a grub or worm of any kind 
will be found in <he soil, and.we seldom 
lose a plant from their depredations. 
The only remely we have found for 
red spider is syringing with a very strong 
force of water. This knocks off the red 
spider, and prevents them multiplyiny. 
Roses love au even moisture. Water 
should be given often, but not so freely 
as to keep the svil like mud. We believe 
more roses are damaged by getting too 
dry than by keeping too wet. ‘ 
For rose soil, on our benches, we take 
a good sod, plow it three or four inches 
deep, vive it forty two-horse loads of well 
rotied manure, one half-ton of hard wood 
ashes, and four tons of pure bone lust to 
the acre. 
We use n0 manure on our roses after 
putting in the houses, hut fertilise with 
nitrate of soda (half oz to the gallon) cr 
manure water once a* week, and during 
the season give the beds two or three 
sprinklings of bone black. We keep the 
soil stirred and open by scratching once 
a week. e 
Grafting the Bride, Catherine Mermet 
and Golcen Gate roses improves them 
wonderfully: they should be planted 
farther apart in the greenhouse than the 
sane varieties on their own roots. 
Great care should be taken in planting 
carnations both in the house and in the 
field. The roots should be kept near the 
top of the ground, half to three-quarters 
is deep enough. Morecarnations are lost 
from deep planting than from all other 
causes coubined, Deep planting is almost - 
sure to bring on stem rot. 
We never syringe carnations unless 
they have red spider, and we never have 
carnation rust. Curnations delight in a 
dry atuiosphere, the foliage hardens and 
red spider and rus’ have little chance to 
get a footing. . 
A mixture of one part Portland cement 
and five parts of auchracite coal ashes 
makes a cheap and excellent concrete for 
side walls along solid beds in the green- 
house, and outside walls for greenhouses 
and for building. It is much cheaper than 
brick, and better fur many purposes. \We 
used hundreds of barrels of cement for 
this purpose, and to-day the walls are as 
hard as rock and far superior to brick. — 
J. Dillon in the Florists’ Exchange. 
ee 
The path of a good woman is indeed 
strewn with flowers, but they rise behind 
her fuotsteps, not before. —Ruskin. 
Eggs are close things (says an old 
Chinese proverb), but the chickens come 
out at last. 
JuLy 14, 196 
Hitchen -Gurden. 
Sowine seeds of varions vegetables, plant- 
ing out from former sowings and prepar- 
ing ground for future crop is venerally 
the routine work during the winter 
months. 
Asparagus, onions, ete, should he 
trausplanted, aud sets of early potatoes 
p’anted in early situations. 
Seeds of onions, peas, broad beans, 
cabbage, and other vegetables that will be 
req sired during the spring mouths should 
be sown,’ 
Those who intend to raise tomato 
plants in heated beds should prepare the 
inanure, etc. for the purpose. Fresh 
stable inanure, with pleuty of straw is 
needed, and it must be watered, stacked 
,tv ferment, and turned at least twice to 
instre an even heit, without which it 
would be useless to attempt the raising of 
delicate plants. 
Dry, open, sunny positions should be 
selected for such beds, with some protec- 
tion from coid winds, 
[he 
Additions to the New Market. 
The shareholders of the Adelaide Fruit 
and Protuce Exchange Company, at a 
meeting held on Wednesday, i8th July, 
endorsed the policy of the directors in 
extending the marnet. Plans were sub- 
initted and approved, and these included 
about 90 extra stands, and six stores, 
The elevation in Union street will be on 
the lines of the Grenfell street frontage, 
and direct communication will be provided 
by road from Union street to Bast terrace, 
the whole making an extensive building. 
The work has been started, and will be 
finished by the time the very busy season 
arrives, 
Howards 
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