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Flower Garden— 
~ October Planting an ci eet) 
The Shadehouse sy Se 2h 
The Greenhouse De Terie 4, 
Flowers “ Ss 13 
Vegetable Garden. 
October Plaating re 4-5 
Orchard. 
List of Good Apple ‘Trees as 
Peaches Aap ar an. «fl 
CONTAINS— 
Lucerne. " 
Lucerne for Hillside? ... meds 
The Dairy. ts 
Testing Cowsas Milkers ce She 
Profitable Pig Keeping a er 
Sheepbreediug te ant 
Poultry. : 
Ducks At 11 
Advice about Poltry 11 
Feeding Fowls the aay. iil 
Eggs on vee an 3 
» Wine as a Germ-Destroyer we 12 
_ Olivr Oil vs 53 repel 
Orchard Notes 12 
Vegetarian Diet ot ay V2 
Government Produce Department 12 
' Washing Milk Vessels, etc. to. J6 
lower Garden, 
By THe OxBservur 
For October 
With plenty of moisture in the soil, 
svarin air, and plenty of light, everything 
should grow rapidly.. There will be lots 
of feed for the garden pests, and there will 
bea deal of work in repelling their at- 
tacks. 
from the Department of Agriculture a 
reliable leaflet giving instructions how to 
deal with most of the fungus diseases and 
many of the insect pesis. Slugs and 
snails can be destroyed with freshly-slacked . 
lime, or with soot, sprinkled over the beds 
at night, or they cap be trapped under 
handfuls of weeds} or under boards raised 
about half an inch, especially if the under- 
side has been smeared with dilute iodine, 
Take advantage of moderate. cloudy 
“weather to plant out seedlings of tender 
annuals, including variegated beets, kales, 
and similar plants for autumn color. 
alternantiears, ameranths, antirrhinuims, 
browallias, cannas. chillies, and all other 
peppers, celosias, carnations, centaureas, 
conyolvulus, delphiniums, dianthus spe- 
Cies of all sorts, ochiums, egg plants,ever- 
lastings of many kinds, gaillardias, gom- 
phrenas, ipomoeas, iresenes, lobelias, 
lupins, nicotiana, petunias, perilla, stocks 
of many varieties, French and African 
marigolds, cosmos, «Zinnias, and many 
others. If nd seedlings have been raised 
the seedsmen and nurserymen, can supply 
several sorts.” 
The benches of the grecnhouse are 
often too crowded with plants, so that air 
and light cannot freely get among them, 
aud they grow up thin. lanky and weak, 
TO ‘avoid this state of things plant out a 
lot of the surplus in the open beds. If 
the soil is good, and enough water is sup- 
plied a good many of the plants usually 
grown in greenhouses, will thrive in the» 
open air garden as will be seen when one 
visits the Botanic Garden, 
Sow small lots of seeds of all kinds of 
ender and half-hardy annuals and autumn 
ad decorative plants. When flowers begin to 
A penny for postage will secure . 
in many cases 
fail their scarcity can be partialy compen- 
sated by the gorgeous colors of the foliage 
of the various amarants, beets, coleus, 
colosias, kales, contaureas, triplex varie- 
ties, -iresenes, alternatheras, 
echeverias, and others. : ji 
and species of cucurbitaceae (including 
gourds, calabashes, otc.), bearing remark-— 
ablo fruits of various bright colors and 
odd shapes, can be grown for hiding feneés 
walls, etc., or for covering arbours or sum- 
mer houses. Sturt’s pea may still be 
sown. ; : 
In beds of rich, deep, sandy loam, shel- 
tered by walls on 
sides by good walls, many desireable plants 
can: be grown, put which withstand the hot 
winds or fierce heat of our sumimer after- 
noons. Among the plants that can thus 
be grown are Anemone japonica, asters, 
aurieulas, bolsam, bellis parennis (daisy) ; 
begonias (tuberous and others), cinerarias, 
camellias, capsicums, chillies, and other 
peppers, _coleus, dupheas, cyclamen, 
daphes, deutxiax, ericas, epacris (va- 
rious), fraxinilas, fuchsias, humeas, helle- 
bores, linums, mimuli, nemophilas, pansies 
paeonies, polyanthus, schizanthus, tagetes, 
snowarops, tulips, tritonias, and mahy 
British cottage garden favorites. 
‘By careful management the garden may 
be- kept supplied with many of the 
chief favorite flowers for a long time... By 
sowing small quantities of seed at intervals 
of ten to fourteen days, a succession for 
planting out may be secured,  Gladioli 
corms and various bulbs, tubers, and roots 
can be planted in the same way, 
lot will be coming out. By cutting flowers 
directly they are full blown, or preventing 
them seeding, another ¢rop’ of bloom will 
be forced. By judicious 
cutting back when the flowers begin to 
wither a fresh crop can be secured. Zonala 
pelargoniums usually flower about ten 
weeks after the plants have been cut back, 
been cut directly.tho petrals fall. 
should not be allowed to produce seeds, 
but should be cut back lightly when the 
new wood has hardened, and then old 
Pay 
echiums, * 
Many varieties - 
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north and north-west ~ 
so that — 
- when: one lot has done flowering the next 
-and the other pelagoniums will sometimes | 
start flowering again’if the first. ¢rop has 
Roses 
Water given. 
cowyard manure spread on the soil near 
‘the stem, but not against it, and plenty of — 
This treatment will start 
new growth fand fresh flowers. Do not 
in any case, cut the foliage of bulbus or 
tubérous plants, as that will weaken the 
_ plant for next season’s work. 
There are several plants which do best 
when planted whilst the soil and air 
aro past all danger of cold snaps. During 
° this month, therefore, plant out oranges, 
: lemons, pine trees, bougainyvilleas, bonvar- 
dis, clematis, passifloras, dahlias, cannas, 
salanums, tacsonias, hibiscus, verbenas, 
heliclirysunrs, helliotropes, salvias, aud ° 
others which seem to thrive best during 
hot weather, if sufficient water is supplied. 
Dahlias should be planted in rows in 
deep, rich, light soil, with strong stakes on 
both sides at each end, so that wires can 
be affixed on either side to protect the 
sappy growth at the top of the growth, 
else the stems will probably be snapped 
off, Foxgloves, hollyhocks, paeonies and 
all other brittle longstemmed flowers 
shonld be staked. ; 
Take up, divide and replant (if not al- 
ready done) chrysanthemums and other 
planis of a similar habit of growth, if the 
plants are rather too large. » Fresh spots 
should be selected for replanting. if bul- 
bous plants continue too long growing 
after flowering owing to the excess of 
moisture in the soil the ripening may be 
hastened by forking beneath them , to 
loosen the roots a little, then leave them 
until the leaves are quite dry. When dry 
lift the bulbs, put them away in dry sand. 
for three months before replanting. The 
little bulbilles about the roots of gladioli 
and similar plants should be replanted at 
once in a box that has a lot of fresh stable 
dung at the bottom, {covered with .a foot 
depth of fine sandy loam. * 
Sweet peas, stocks, and many similar 
plants are eaten by sparrows, but slugs 
_and snails often get the blame. To pre- 
vent the birds eating seeds or seedlings 
’ stick a number of twiggy branches about 
a foot high along the rows’ and twine a 
reel of the finest black: cotton about the 
twigs. The birds will. strike the cotton 
and take fright and fly off. ? 
