THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
Annual net Income, £594,370. 
¥ 
‘April 1, 1907 
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This old Established Colonial Office covers every description of 
Fire, Marine, and Accident Business, 
At Lowest Rates. 
£6,000,000 paid in Claims. 
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN BRANCH, 112 KING WILLIAM STREET, ADELAIDE. 
LOUIS E. WILSON, Manager. 
Active Agents Wanted. 
Keep the surface soil between the plants 
well stirred after watering. On all worked 
Roses suckers are occasionally thrown 
from the root of the stock. They are 
easily distinguished, and should be pulled 
off or cut out as near the stem as possible. 
Mildew is sometimes troublesome 
autdmn and winter, The most effective 
remedy is equal parts of fresh-slacked 
lime and sulphur, dusted on the foliage” 
when moist in the morning. 
We would advise those -of our readers 
who are contemplating the planting of 
Roses to inspect Mr. Kemp’s Garden ‘at 
Unley Road, Unley. He makes i oses 
a Special study, and stocks almost every 
variety. See his advertisement. 
“The nurseryman and seedman are 
xequently blamed for selling bad seed, 
qhen the fault more often lies at the door 
ofthe purchaser. We have never had 
cass to complain of bad seed from our 
local seedsmen. On the contrary, on one. 
occasion last year we wanted somre parsnip: 
seed, and three nurserymen. refused to” 
sell itvas it was old seed, the. new crop 
not having arrived. They ‘were scarcely, 
even willing to give it-away, preferring to 
destroy it to getting a bad. name. When, 
buying seeds, it is a very’ simple mattér 
to test., 
them, in two. ‘or threé’ ways : 
Rapidly «germinating seeds; such 17 088 
tiustard, cress, radish, etc.,-may be*laid on 
wet flannel ina warm shady place. ‘The 
good seed,<will soon sho. ., themselyes, 
“Another-way is: to filla’pot with wet sand. 
Goatfer the seeds ‘on’ the surface, ald 
cover the:pot, with a piece of glass. Say 
you “count Gut one. hundrdd: seeds for 
planting, there should, if the seed be 
fresh, from ninety to ninety-five which 
in- 
germinate. Remove each seed which has ~ 
struck, keep a tally of them. If more 
than five per cent, fail to grow, the seed 
is not too good. and in order to secure a 
good stsnd, more will be purchased than 
ifit were fresh. These easy tests will 
show the gardener whether his cultivation, 
the birds, or the seller of the seeds is to 
blame. 
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How to Grow Large Melons, 
A very simple method of watering and : 
at the same time manuring melon vines is 
to sink a cement or bottle-ale cask a little | 
over half its own depth in the ground 
Then throw up the soil against the un- 
covered part of the cask thus making it 
the centre of a gradually sloping mound, 
much like a scrub turkey’s ‘nest Fill the 
cask: with stablé manure Sow the melon 
seed outside and alittle distance from the 
cask Every day dr every second: day* 
when the plants have begun to’ grow. 
yigorously, water the manure in the cask 
The liquid passes between the staves, and’ 
thus, fertilises the plants The ‘distinct 
advantage of this process is: that during 
dry weather. when surface watering would 
only.tesult, in baking and, cracking the. 
doit tite plints draw moisture snd nourish- 
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Gardening for April. 
KITCHEN GARDEN, 
Gardeners will be kept busy this month.. 
Sow all kinds of vegetables—Cabbage,. 
Cauliflower, Kohlrabi, Kail, Celery, Turn- 
ip, Peas, Broad Beans, Spinach, Mustard 
and Cress, Lettuce, Onions, Red and 
Silver Beet, etc. Plant out Cabbage,. 
Cauliflower; and Celery, and earth up 
those planted last month, Sow Parsley 
and other herbs. Give top-dressing of 
manure toAsparagus, + eakail, Strawberries 
etc. Plant J?ot-toes. Take up Yams 
and Sweet Potatoes. Transplant and di- 
- vide’ all kinds’‘of herbs, renewing the 
‘edges formed of them wherever it may be 
required, _ Dig and manure land for 
future plantations, 
FLOWER GARDEN. 
Continue sowing hardy annuals and. 
perennials. Divide and transplant the 
latter, also evergreen shrubs and trees. 
Plant bulbs of early-flowering sorts. Pro. 
pagate by cuttings Roses, Honeysuckle,. 
Buddlea, etc-, as'they will succeed. much 
better if put in'early. Dig and manure 
flower. borders, and. keep the garden 
generally in order. Renew edges. Trench 
where not previously done, and lay“ ut. 
new grounds. ‘Layer hard-wooded plants... 
Sow Primula, Pansy, Cineraria, Calceéo- 
laria, Mimulus, ete. And single jot the 
‘seedlings of former sowings of plants... 
“5° ORRUIT GARDEN, 6 20 ie: 
_Prepair ground for receiving (young: 
fruit-trees and vines early next, month. 
Though rather early, Peaches, Nectarines, 
and Cherries, may be pruned towards. the 
end of the month to fill up sparé time. 
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