Flower Garden— 
Garden Pests—Shru bs —Foliage Plants— 
Plants now in Bloom — Bulbs — 
Plants to take up and Divide —Seeds 
—Climbing Plants — Manures—An- 
nuals—Pampas Grass—Edging and 
Hedges—Pruning--Dry Soil—Lawns 
Greenhouse—The Shade and Green- 
houses—Pits and Frames and the 
Fernery — Propagating Dahlias — 
Digging—Carnations--Dahlia Tubers 
The August Number of . . 
The Nusttalian Gardener 
CONTAINS— 
Orchard— 
Pears—Best Fruits to Plant—Jonathan 
—Cleopatra or New York Pippin 
A Method of Preventing the Rapid Decay 
of Ripe Fruit. 
Preparation of Hruit Pulp—Cultivation 
of the Peach—A New Apple Rot 
The Crown-Gall and Hairy-Root Disease 
of the Apple Tree 
Viticulture 
Grafting—Theory of Grafting —Affiinity— 
Tools Required—Methods of Graft- 
ing —Callousing. 
Flower Garden. 
By Tue OpsErvVER. 
a Garden Pests. 
ea _ Tae favorable season this year has caused 
ing weeds. The weeds must be pullel up, 
else they will choke the plants we want 
for flowering. Sluzs, snails, and other 
pests must also be destroyed. The slugs 
and snails should be dusted at night with 
new lime which has just recently beea 
 slacked. 
Caterpillars may be picked of by 
hand ; or, if very numerous, they can be 
_ poisoned with a spray of arsenate of lime. 
_ Aphides and many other posts can be 
decoction, four ounces of each boiled in 
each gallon of water. Where only a few 
plants are to be dealt with a basin of the 
decoction may be taken in the left hand, 
and the right can be used for bending the 
ends of the branches affected down into 
the liquid. The aphides always attack the 
sappy new growth. 
Shrubs. 
_ Plant all kinds of deciduous and hardy 
evergreens. At the end of the Month 
danger from frost at night will not be 
serious, and some orange, lemon and 
milar trees may be planted; but there 
vill probably be better results if this 
work is delayed a little, Among many 
desirable plants for moderately sized gar- 
ens are jacaranda mimosiaefolia, spar- 
Mannia africana, spiraea corymhost, phi- 
ladelphus, the double flowering cherry, 
gooseberry, currant, cherry, peach and 
pomegranate; ornamental eucalypts, ha- 
keas, and very many others 
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Foliage Plants. 
any plants which rival flowers for 
variety of vivid colors of every hue, such 
vigorous growth of all our plants, inclu 1- 
killed by spraying with tobacco and soap 
‘For foliage effects there are a good 
as the variegated beets and kales, eunony- 
mus, holly, echeverias, several centaureas, 
cannas, vinca, amarauts, coleus, iresene, 
etc., to say nothing about the many plants 
which so brilliantly glow at the end of 
autumn. Seeds of the tender varieties 
of these can now be sown under shelter 
against frost, and plants of the hardy 
kinds should be put out at once. 
Bold - foliaged and eccentric-looking 
plants are also attractive in large gardens, 
such as melianthus ricinus, maranta, cor- 
dyiine, hardy aralias, palms, strelitzia, 
bambusa, musa, wigandia, and others, of 
most of which there are more than 
_ variety. 
Among the cucurbiticeae there are a 
good many species which proluce good 
flowers and remarkable fruits of various 
brilliant and vivid colors. These inclu le 
abroda viridiflora, byranopsis erithocvr- 
_ pa, coucanya, indica, and alot of gourds 
and calabashes, both useful and ornamen- 
tal. Seeds of these can be secured now for 
sowing at end of this m»nth. : 
Most of the above can be trained over 
walls, fences, banks or on trellises to hide 
anyching objectionable. bo 
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Plants now in Bloom. 
There are considerably over a hundred 
kinds of plants now bloo ning in the Bo- 
tanic Gardens, and it will well repay tho 
amateur gardener to visit thit baruty 
spot with book and pancil to trike notes 
for present use, as there is a dearth of 
flowers in most of the private girdens. 
Bulbs. 
All bulbs remaining over should be put 
in, but liliums, tigridias, tuberoses, anil 
similar bulbs should have a protection of 
litter over the spot where planted. 
Plants to Take Up and Divide. 
Take up, divide, and replant in fresh 
spots any liliums, diplicus, antirrhinums, 
penstemons, plunbayo, chrysanthemums, 
The Dairy 
Training the Young Dairy Animals —On 
Breeding — Floors and Troughs in 
Stables 
Importation of Pure Bred Pigs 
Principles of Horseshoeing. 
South African Bark Trade. 
The Poultry Yard 
Utility Poultry Farm at Sunny Bank 
Yards—Starting—Selling Eggs and 
Poultry—Setting Hens. 
Miscellaneous. 
Ete. Ete. 
salvias, tuberoses, and other plants of a 
similar nature or habit of growth which 
have been left undisturbed for three years 
or more. 
ee 
Seeds. 
Under shelter sow small lots of seeds of 
half-hirdy. and tender annuals, inclu ling 
balsams, browallias, amorants, co.nphrenas, 
celosias, portulaccas, French and African 
marigolds, capsicums chillies, and other 
peppers, and euphorbia variegata. 
Climbing Plants. 
The best, perhaps, are pillar and climb- 
ing roses, but bougainyilleas, clomatises, 
passifioras, tacsonias, tecomas doliches 
varieties (one of which produces edible- 
podded peans continuously), maurandia, 
some of the euphorbias, gourds, aad other 
climbers are available, and will make an — 
attractive screen. 
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_ Manures. 
Liquid manure is very stimulating to 
all strong-zrowing plants, but should be 
supplied in drills at a little distance from 
the ste ns. When supplied, fill in the 
drill lightly. New stable manure or any 
other decaying organic substance may be 
placed in a tank, kept covered with water, 
and the liquid applied two or three times 
aweek. Old, well-decayed farmyard stuff 
can be spread at any time over the surface, 
and the fertilising matter will be dissolved — 
and carried down when the water is ap- 
plied. A small quantity of sulphate of 
ammonit, nitrate of potash, and super- 
phosphite added to the witer in the tank 
will increase its value, but do not be too 
liberal with these chemicals, else they — 
will kill the plints. A pint of sulphate — 
and a quart of each of the others is suffi- 
cient for 20 gillons of liquid, but any 
quantity of stable manure, in reason, may — 
be put into the tank, provided itis dipped 
from freely every day and kept filled at 
ths same tim» A 30-gallon tank will 
serve for a fortnight in asmall garden, 
