‘SEPTEMBER 1, 1906 ~~ ~~ 
A List of Good Apples. 
The following varieties have fruitet 
and proved true to name— 
Adams Permain. | 
Tree moderately vigorous, poor crop 
medium size, conic oblong; striped and 
splashed with browinsh red; flesh yel- 
low, firm, brisk, subacid, fair flavor, mo- 
derate keeper. Blossoms 12th October ; 
ripens middle of April. ’ 
Ben Davis, 
Tree upright, spreading, vigorous, poor 
crop, large ‘size, roundish, conical, flat- 
tened, yellow, brightly striped with crim- 
son, flesh yellowish, brisk,, juicy, fair 
flavor, good keeper, subject to codlin. 
Blooms October, ripens May, very showy. 
Buncombe, 
Tree moderately upright, vigorous, a 
heavy crop, medium size, roundish, coni- 
cal, skin yellow and covered on the sunny 
side with purplish red, flesh tender, juicy 
and sweet, with a high flavor, subject to 
water core, free from codtin moth 
Blooms in October, ripens early in 
May. 
Cleopatra. 
Upright vigorous heavy crop, good even 
size, in cluster, oblong conic, sometiines 
oblate, skin thin, lemon yellow, with 
occasional blush in the sun, flesh white, 
rich, subacid and juicy, with good flavor, 
good desert and culinary, ripens evenly, 
will not hang on tree, good keeper, poor 
dryer. One of our most profitable apples, 
fairly free from codlin moth, but subject 
to bitter pit. 
Devonshire Quarrenden —Tree upright 
and spreading and stunted; a poor crop, 
small size, in cluster, oblate and angular: 
skin shiny red, calyx very downy. flesh 
white, rich and aromatic: poor keeper, 
free frum codlin moth. 
Biooms in October and ripens early in 
January. 
Dumelow’s Seedling, 
Tree spread.ng and vigorous, poor crop,’ 
large size, roundish flattened, skin green- 
ish, striped with red, fles, yell sw, soft 
and mealy and inferior: subject to bitter 
pit and codlin moth. 
Blooms about the middle of Octuber 
and ripens early in February. 
Esopus Spitzenberg. 
Tree upright, rather stunted, poor crop, 
medium size, roundish conic skin yellow 
striped and splashed w.th carmine, flesh 
yellowish white, juicy and firm, with rich 
flavor, good keeper. 
_ Blooms middle of October and ripens 
towards the end of April. Subject to cod- 
lin moth. ; 
Five-crown Pippin. 
’ Tree spreading and vigorous, poor crop 
of large size, roundish oblate, conic, dis- 
tinctly five-sided, with five prominent 
ridges round the crown; skin deep yel- 
low with faint blush when exposed, flesh 
yellow, firm, rich and juicy, subacid wich 
‘Shell grit | 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
good flavor, fair keeper and dries well, 
So far unsuccessful in the Bathurst ‘or- 
chard. 
Blooms towards the end of October and 
ripens about the end of January, Fairly 
free from codlin moth. 
Gravenstein. 
Tree spreading, vigorous heavy foliage, 
large size medium crop, fruit oblate, 
ribbed, skin y llow with broad stripes of 
crimson. flesh yellow, firm and of good 
flavor, poor keeper, readily falls before 
ripening. 
Blooms early in October and ripens 
about the middle of January. Good early 
variety. 
Hoover. 
Tree spreading, vigorous, dense foliage, 
heavy crop, and large in size in cluster, 
fruit roundish oblate, skin striped and 
mottled with reddish maroon, flosh yel- 
low, crisp and juicy, with fair flavors free 
from codli1 moth. 
- Blooms about the middle of October 
and ripens early in February. A hand- 
some variety. 
Trish Peach. 
Tree spreadiuz, vigorous, heavy crop, 
medium size, fruit roundish, slightly flat- 
tened; skin pale yellow, mottled with 
red with numerous green dots; flesh 
greenish white crisp, vood flavor; falls 
readily, but is a poor keeper: subject to 
codlin moth, 
Blooms middle of Ovtober and ripens 
early in January. 
Jonathan. 
Tree spreadiny, vigorous, medium crop 
of large size, roundish conical, skin yel- 
low, almost entirely covered with deep 
red and sometimes striped with crimson: 
flesh white, crisp, tender and juicy, with 
good flavor: almost free from codlin 
moth. Valuable market vaaiety — drys 
well, good dessert und culinary and is a 
fair keeper. * — 
Blooms about the middle of October 
and ripens towards the end of January. 
To be continued. 
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Sorghum A:nber Cane Luberne 
Essex Ripe’ 
Globe and Long Red Mango 
And Paspalum Seed 
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Bone Dust 
Bone Super Ammonia 
Ete. : : 
Oyster shell 
Bone Meal and Chick Meal 
eee Clemicnn 
SEEDSMAN 
229 RUNDLE ST., East 
; Telephone 1360 
The Poultry Yard. 
All about Eggs. 
Saes 
Gather often. 
Market quickly. 
Then you'll have top quality. 
Have clean nests and saye washing. 
But don’t market them dirty by any 
means. 
Have a dummy egg in every nest. 
Don’t market the egys from a stolen 
nest. 
If they’re not good enough for your 
own tabie, they are not fit to sell. 
Beware of jeopardising your good repu- 
tation for the sake of a few paltry eggs. 
Why do suburban new laid eggs always 
bring the highest figures and set the price 
for all qualities ? 
It is because they are the product for 
the greater part of small plants, where 
there are no stolen nests, and the eggs 
from whic' are regularly marketed. 
Yet close proximity to your market is 
not an absolute essential, as is proved by 
the fact that country breeders who market 
with regularity get top figures. 
And anyone who is careful in respect- 
ing the essentials can get paying prices 
for their hen fruit if they go the right 
way about it. 
‘In almost every locality there are people 
(ora lot) above regular market price for a 
Select article. . 
These are the people you need to culti- 
vate, and who will prove your most profit- 
able customers if treated properly, 
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Cackle 
QOD 
_ September. 
Warnier weather. 
Eggs are cheaper. 
Set all you possibly can, 
Providing you can rear the chicks, 
Or are prepared to advertise the surplus 
There is a big demand for chickens, 
And their production is a profitable 
venture, 
Only lec people know you have them 
and they will buy. 
The.weather that produces eggs pro- 
duces lice also. 
Just keep your weather eye open for 
the little pests. y 
A little care exercised now will keep 
your poultry free the best part of summer 
And that means a lot, asall experienced 
poultry men will testify. 
As the warm weather will commence to 
tell in increased setters, there is likely to 
be a good demand for eygs this month. 
We are surprised that moré breeders do 
not cater for the enormous demand for 
breody hens; they sell at good figures. 
And while the up-to-date poultry 
keeper has learnt to do without by using 
incubators the amateur must follow 
Nature’s way on account of his limited 
operations.” 
