‘The Rebruary, Number of .— 
The ‘Mustralian Gardener 
Flower Garden— 
Ornamental Gardening 
Horticultural 
Vegetables— Y 
Beans Cabbage 
Cauliflower Cucumber 
Melon and Pumpkin Squash 
Lettuces 
The Cultivation of Tomatoes. 
CONTAINS— 
The Orchard— 
Keeping Ripe Fruit 
Sheep in the Orchard 
Fruit Pulp 
Agriculture— 
Lucerne —Varieties—Preparation 
of the Soil—Seed per acre— 
Covering — Lucerne under 
Cultivation — Value as a 
Fodder 
Stock— 
Breaking-in Farm Horses 
Fluctuations in the Butter-Fat 
Percentage 
Shelter v. Exposure Dairy Cows 
Light in Stable Watering Horses 
The Poultry Yard— 
Bantams are Useful 
Separate Pens for Fattening 
Choice of Breeding 
Grit Ete. 
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Elowrer Gardemrm. 
Ornamental 
aire ‘Gardening. 
BY W. ROBINSON. 
Wuar is an ornamental garden? It is a plot of 
ground worked up and laid out in various beds, 
with good walks, which are, or should be, on a 
curve throughout, only where it cannot be 
avoided, such as a terrace or lawn. Hach bed 
should contain a speciality of plants or trees to 
suit its'position. These kinds of gardens are 
most desirable, and such localities as the Mount 
Lofty hills are favourable for carrying out any 
idea imaginable. Great headway has been made 
of late years in beautifying the residences in 
the hills with these gardens. The seasons 
of late years have impressed me very much that 
more shade trees should be planted, and those 
who are fortunate enuugh to have plenty of 
water should have nice grass plots, surrounded 
with some umbrageous trees and bowers, for 
shade. During the spells of hot weather they 
are cool and refreshing, and become favorite 
resorts in the gardens. 
Planting of the gardens in general should be 
carefully thought over and worked out before 
planting takes place,so that we find in after 
years everything is in its tight place, and is 
either a fine specimen plant or is doing its duty 
in covering up exposed positions, or making 
a fine break for storms. 
In most of the old gardens too many conifera 
have been planted in the best positions of the 
grounds and have become a trouble to smaller 
plants and shrubs, and-not of much credit to 
themselves either, through being punished with 
root cutting aud having been trimmed: in some 
way for something else. 
I therefore strongly advocate planting the fol- 
lowing trees fér—1. Shelter purposes. | 2. To 
break an exposed view. 3. To furnish the 
pieces of ground leased from the Council and 
And (4) planting up Parks 
and Recreation grounds. 
The whole family of Abies :— 
Araucarias Imbricata, 
Cedars. . 
Cupressus. 
Juniperus. 
Pines. 
Rentinospora, plumosa. 
Thuya gigantea. 
Sequoia gigantea. 
Interspersed with 
Acacias of sorts, baileyana (bright yellow). 
Acacia, dealbata, pruinosa (silver foliage). 
Acacia, pyenantha (golden wattle). 
Eucalyptus, ficifolia, all ornamental foliage. 
Quercus, Pyrus aucuparia or Mountain Ash, 
The best flowering cratagus of various col- 
Also Liriodendron tulipiferum 
open to the public. 
oured flowers 
to be planted freely and less ‘of Oriental planes. 
The latter has proved itself not a healthy tree 
after the age of ten years in the hills, 
The above conifera and deciduous and flow- 
ring trees go well together, and are most desir- 
able to have if the grounds are available and 
plantedas above. 
When this family is out on the boundaries of 
the garden, there is every prospect to grow 
smaller shrubs and trees to better forms and 
greater results, with comfort and satisfaction to 
all parties concerned. Where 3 drive or large 
walk can be laid down and beautified with 
ceracus of sorts and maples planted alternately, 
the result. would be a glorious show in spring, 
with autumn tints. ‘ 
Walks should be adorned with Toses and car- 
nations, with pillars and arches ‘of roses, likewise 
of rhododendrons and herbaceous plants; of flow- 
ering shrubs, Philadelphus, wigelia; and. arches 
of clematis and bignonias of sorts, filled up with 
“bulbous and tuberous plants too numerous to 
mention. All of these should be. backed up with 
ornamental shrubs of ‘various colors and shades 
of green and variegated holly or ilex,r rhus, liqui- 
dambar, amalanchias, and hosts of other species. 
“are not much in evidence. 
Borders of annuals should be situated in 
selected beds, surrounded with roses. Where 
water is plentiful grass can be used, for coolness 
and cheerfulness. 
Lalso advocate that where hedges of pittos- 
porums, laurestinas, and laurels are well looked 
after, they should not be planted in the 
gardens as shrubs, xs the quantities of beautiful 
and graceful shrubs are raore desirable which 
grow without being clipped, and they look more 
graceful. 
Palms will grow in the hills, but are damaged 
in the winter with storms. I shall only advocate 
one or two of the hardiest being planted and 
under most favorable and sheltered conditions: 
Chamerops excelsa, and humilis. 
Ornamental grasses and bamboos should have 
a place if water is plentiful from a soak or in 
any other form. To make a pond or small 
lake, an aquatic group of plants tend to form 
a beautiful corner, for which iris may be in- 
cluded. 
The lawns should be as convenient as possible 
to the dwelling, and if the grounds are large 
enough to make room for specimen trees on it, 
for shade purposes, auracaria imbricata (orna- 
mental), and weeping elms and ash, should find 
a position. Wherever soil of a sandy nature 
exists ericas should be grown freely. 
All surrounding borders and beds should 
have neatly planted hedgings of rosemary, 
thyme, gazania, and echeverias. 
As fundamental principles for successful 
' gardening : 
Do not garden beyond your water supply. 
Have every inch of land growing something 
of beauty and usefulness, 
Do everything at the proper time, and 
Use everything for its proper purpose., 
There has been ageneral alarm this season in 
reference to the plague of moths, and the ques- 
tion is often asked, “Are they dangerous to 
fruit?’ So far as can be ascertained, they are 
more likely to prove a plague to ground crops, 
such as cabbages, tomatoes and such like, There 
has been time for the grubs to show themselves, 
if they are going to do so, in numbers, and they 
Some writers refer 
to them as ‘worms,’ Why cannot we get rid of 
this slipshod style of writing? The grub is one 
stage in the life of a moth or caterpiller, but a 
worm is always a worm. 
