THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
March 1, 1907 
\ 
\ 
\\ 
t\ 
“ 
12 
V7 
If 
4 
Annual net Income, £594,370. 
\\Iimsurance Co... 
This old Established Colonial Office covers every description of 
Fire, Marine, and Accident Business, 
EUuted. 
At Lowrest Rates. 
£&8,000,000 paid in Claims. 
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN BRANCH, 112 KING WILLIAM STREET, ADELAIDE. 
LOUIS E. WILSON, Manager. 
Active Agents Wanted. 
length of the branches. Further, the 
hinning of the old trees allowed access 
to the spray pump, which was no less 
an important instrument of succour 
than the pruning saw. The trees were 
at Once sprayed wlth strong salt and 
sulphur mixture, made on the follow- 
ing plan— 
Ina kerosene tin slake 5lbs of lump 
quicklime, add 5 lbs-sulphur, and boil for 
one hour, keeping well stirred, then in 
another tin slake 51bs quicklime, and add 3 
lbs salt, mix the two tins, and keep hot. 
For use, take one part of this and add four 
Aes of hot water, strain well and apply 
0 
This is a splendid insecticide, not 
only ki'ling all diseases like the woolly 
aphis, scale and red spider, that har- 
bor on the bark, but cleaning off all 
moss and lichen growth as well. The 
new spur and shoot growth that comes 
in Spring has then every possible op- 
portunity of maturing well. Then in 
November, for the codlin the young 
fruit was sprayed with a patent mixture 
which is practically arsenite of soda, 
made in the followin, way;— . 
In an enamel pan boil 1 oz. white arsenic 
and 2 ozs, washing soda crystals in a quart 
of water for about fifteen minutes, stirring 
well, 
Pourthis on 2lbs lump quicklime 
and add more water if Teun to well 
slake it, After standing half an hour this, 
when strained, will make 20 gallons of 
Spray. 
_ This spray was given four times, at 
intervals cf nine days. But all threugh 
the summer any fruit missed by the 
Spray that was seen tohave a grub in 
was picked off for the pigs, which also 
got any infected ones that had fallen 
to the ground Asthe result of this 
simple but effective treatment, the old 
fruiting spurs on the trees became fruit- 
ful again, and new spurs showed them 
selves .in the lower parts of the 
branches, 
The winter pruning from this onward 
consisted of (still further thining the 
tops of the branches and cutting away 
_any very old spurs that were obviously 
worn out. The salt and sulphur 
mixture was again applied, aad from 
then till now the apple scale, which 
before was a scourge, is very difficult 
to find, In the following spring the 
trecs were sprayed with 6lbs. blue 
stone. 4lbs quicklime, 50 gallons of 
water for blackspot, and the trnnks 
bandaged for codlin moth, but the 
latter pest, it was soon found, is best 
coped with by spraying, az above 
indicated, in Novomber, and destroy- 
ing any grubby fruits wherever fonnd, 
{| THE RESULTS, 
Last season the crop taken from th® 
trees, which are mostly apples and 
pears, but also include apricots ard 
and plums, was 1600 icases of good 
fruit, the total number of trees in 
bearing 390, This is a splendid and 
needless to say, a profitable return. 
for the labour expeuded in cleaning 
and rejuvenatidg the orchard, anda 
fine testimony to the value of simpl: 
but effective methods of ptuning and 
spraying, which can only be judged by 
such results. One pear tree bore 23 
cases of fruit, 2 apples, and 17 and 10 
cases each, and several others uz to 
5 cases. 
Some of the success of this orchard 
it must be admitted, is due to the 
natural conditions obtalning. Artesian 
water can be tapped at 33ft in depth, 
and with two small pipes, let down at 
the highest part of the garden, an 
unfimited supply of excellent limy 
wate is obtained, Mr. Smith says he 
watered three times last summer, two 
days each time, allowing the water to 
run into channels with closed ends. 
Music Sellers. 
Guees Arcade Music Stores, Adelaide 
Cheapest place for Sheet Music 
sond for Catalogues of our Sixpeny Music 
Free. 
This Month’s Gardening. 
Plains. 
Kitchen Garden—Plant Cabbage, Cauli- 
flower, Uelery, etc. Sow vegetables for 
early crops, such as Lettuce. Radish, 
Turnips, Spinach, Carrots, Parsnips, 
Mustard and Cress, Onions. Leek, and 
Peas, a few Broad Beans, Plant early 
Potatoes, Tree Onions, Shallots, anl 
Garlic. Sow some of the hardier herbs 
(Lhyme, Sage, Marjoram, etc.) Cut down 
tal<s of Asparagus. Prepare ground for 
next month. Attend to watering newly- 
planted vegotables and seed-beds. 
Flower Garden—Sow hardy annuals and 
Perennial herbaceous plants. Put in 
Cutting of Pelargoniums. Plant early- 
flowering bulbs, such as Crocus, Hyacinth 
Tulip, etc. Commence towards the end 
of the month layering hard-wooded plants 
and, should the weather be cool and damp 
transplanting evergreen shrubs and trees, 
lifting each with a yood bull of ewth, anl 
watering them thoroughly in their new 
positions. Seperate ylants layerd last 
season from the parent plants prior to 
being removed, Cut back Pelargoniums. 
Sow Chinese Primulas, Calceolaria, Ciner- 
aria, Pansies, etc., in pots. 
Fruit Garden—Finish the fruit-havest. 
Water Orangetrees. Remove suckers from 
trees. Attend to vintage. Remove re- 
maining ties from budded trees. 
Hills. 
Kitchen Garden—Sow vegetables as on 
the plains, selecting drier positions on the 
slopes of hills, as the so called swamps 
will soon get too cold and wet for culti- 
* vation. Plant out Cabbages, Cauliflower» 
Broccoli, early Potatoes. etc., watering the 
young plants of the former if tne weather 
should be dry. toe and earth up: 
Cabbages, Celery, etc. Cut out runners 
of Strawberries, leaving the strongest 
Flower Garden—Sow annuals, as reco- 
mended for Plains, and carry on other 
operations mentioned there. By cutting 
back Verbenas again in autum show flower 
may be obtained. Commence dividing 
and transplanting perennials and ever- 
green shrubs and trees. 
