(VIMNEFR , 1906 
annot be improved on, Everyone 
eve ihe to abe whitewash, and that 
it is best made with fresh lime and_boil- 
ing water. To a bucket of limewash, 
when hot, add say,a quart of kerosene, 
mix thoroughly, and give the palings : 
good coating, the following day a pocen 
application ; after this the bags can ¢ 
fixed, finishing up by giving these a goo 
coating of whitewash, which will con- 
tribute to clean, healthy, sanitary quarters 
The perches, also the products of the fan 
should get an occasional painting wit 
kerosen>, and the inside of the ours 
whitewashing at least once a year. . n 
districts where native cats, foxes, or ot es 
enemies of the poultry yard prevail, t ie 
entire front of house, including door, 
should be wire netted, thus providing ne 
the fowls could be secure at night a 
kept safe from the, ¢t tims, serous ep- 
redations of the abi ve, A roosting- ae 
constructed as described, the materials . 
which are obtainable on the eh ie 
lime and kerosene excepted, costs a mor : 
nothing for labour, materials free, wi 
last for years, and, if other conditions be 
right will honge and accommodate a flock 
of prize or other fowls more Roce, 
and healthily than is done in the bui a 
ings constructed under the ber one 
the most competent architect, whose fee 
alone, on what is known as up-to-date 
poultry plants, would be more than the 
value of the entire stock of many a 
farmer’s fowls. 
yer, there are many of those on 
ihe lon who make a point of not only 
having their dwelling architecturally and 
artistically correct, but the farm pices or 
out-houses as well, and to those whose 
taste and purse tends to that end the 
several diawings of poultry houses which 
appear in English poultry journals will 
appeal, and from which a selection can be 
made, always remembering that the bulk 
of them have been designed for colder 
climates than ours, and to adapt them to 
Australian conditions will involve con- 
siderable more ventilation than is -pro- 
vided in the majority of them. 
12 varieties Choicest Carnations, 
7|-: 6 for 4]- 
12 varieties Best Zonaie Pelargoniums, 
6/-: 6 for 3/- 
12 varieties Regal and Show Pelargoni- 
ums, 7/-: 6 for 4/- 
12 varieties Best Fuchsias 6/-: 6 
for 3/6- 
All the above WELL-GROWN 
ES & rae g's Specialities, 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 9 
F. G. Lillingston 
Electrical Engineer 
And 
Contractor 
Importer and Electroplater 
seeeesnes 
122 GRENFELL STREET (near 
Arcade), Adelaide. 
Miss Thompson 
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0000 
High-Class Dressmaking at 
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Orders promptly & accurately 
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12 varieties Bouvardias, 7/, 6 for 
4/- 
12 varieties Good Hardy Shrubs, 7/- 
6 for 4/- 
24 varieties Hardy Ferns, 1c/-,. 12 for 
5/- 
Plants of the best varieties 
only delivered free anywhere in Australia. 
H KE MP, Nurceryman, Unley Park, Adelaide, S A. 
° b] 
TELEPHONE 1282, 
Tomato Growing.‘ 
Pruning should commence as soon as 
the suckers get to be an inch long, and 
these will appear frequently immediately 
the plants are set out. If this suckering 
tendency is not checked by their removal 
the plants generally lose their first bloom 
and consequently the earliest fruit, Some 
growers prefer to leave one sucker and 
the main stem, some two suckers. TI per- 
fer to leave the main stem only until the 
first or second cluster, where it will fork, 
then leaye the fork or two stems. If early 
fruit is the object, it is better to prune to 
the main stem only, and then top it after 
three or four clusters are set, if early fruit 
and a good crop are wanted, five or six 
clusters are enough ; if you want a heavy 
crop and time is of no consequence, don’t 
trouble to prune at all; but if earliness 
means money which it generally does, you 
must watch and prune always, ive tons 
of marketable tomatoes per acre from un- 
pruned vines is a good crop, but there is a 
vast difference when the fruit is compared 
with the fruit from pruned vines. When 
working amongst the crop, any diseased 
plants or fruit should immediately be re- 
moved and burnt, and after the- crop is 
gathered, the haulms or stems should be 
collected and burnt also. Tt is not adyis- 
able for tomatdes to follow a crop of 
tomatoes on the same ground, at any rate 
withouta crop of an entirely different 
nature intervening, These precautions 
are necessary as preventive measures 
against the spreading of diseases, Care 
should be taken when gathering the fruit 
that it is not bruised, as guch are sure to 
decay rapidly, those thatare to travel long 
distances or occupy days in transit should 
be picked when they begin to colorat the 
blossom or calyx. When packing, the 
fruit should be graded according to size 
and likeness, all in each package being ag 
near as possible alike, The grading should 
be something like this ;—T large ripe fruit 
2 small ripe fruit, 3 large medium ripe, 4 
small medium ripe, 5 lar.e green fruit, 6 
small green fruit. The fruit wil] thus 
look better, sell better, keep better, and 
pack or travel better, whilst the arrange- 
ments will be found advantageous to the 
buyer and more profitable to the seller, 
Culls should not be marketed, but fed to. 
pigs or destroyed, as other refuse fruit, 
“2 conelusion [I may say, try and establish 
a reputation for your fruit amongst buyers 
and once established you will have no. 
trouble to get gocd prices, which tend to 
make tomato growing a profitable in- 
dustry, 
