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E. B. COX & Co, Seedsmen, Etec., corner Rundle Street and East Terrace. 
July Number of 
The Austral 
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EARLY LONDON CAULIFLOWER. 
The Garden. 
Vegetables. 
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Soil should be prepared for the various 
crops that will be needed to supply the 
requirements of the cultivator during the 
spring and summer. In limited areas the 
cultivation of various vegetables that 
require to be used when freshly gathered 
should be specially aimed at. Most kinds 
require a cool, rich, well-drai: ed soil to 
attain excellence, and while many will 
succeed in light, sandy loanis, others are 
produced in fine condition with little 
difficulty in soils of opposite character. 
In light warm soils cabbage, cauliflower, 
early potatoes, and cnions are grown in 
quantity ; in stiff clays, the best celery in 
the metropolitan district is produced ; 
while soils of a loamy nature produce a 
large proportion of the peas sold in the 
market early. Large quantities of manure 
are applied regularly in all classes of soil, 
due regard being paid to proper rotation. 
Artichoke, Globe.—Suckers or rooted 
plants may be planted out dusing the 
month, but this work is likely to prove 
most successful if it be postponed until 
the early spring. Plant at least 3 ft. 
apart; 5 or 5 ft. would be, perhaps, 
bettor, This vegetable is hardly worth 
the growing, but as some people like ita 
plant or two might be tried. 
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_ Artichoke, Jerusalem.— This species of 
sunflower is quite another thing to the 
Globe Artichoke, and is a very desirable 
vegetable to grow. When the tubers, 
which are somewhat like potatoes, are In 
proper condition, the leaves and stems 
wither away and die down. The tubers 
may be lifted and stored, or allowed to 
remain in the ground, to be taken up as 
needed. They do not store very well, and 
are liable to decay. Keep enough tubers 
in the soil for next season’s planting out 
in the spring. In some places the yield 
of this plant is sometimes enormous. 
Broad Beans.—Early plants should by 
this time be bearing pods large enough 
for use. Sow a row or two, according to 
requirements, at any time during the 
month. Gather the pods before the beans 
become over-lar e. 
CHINESE CABBAGE. 
Cabbage.— Plant out a small batch of 
stroug seedlings, and sow a little seed in 
order to keep up a supply of young cab- 
A very little seed need be sown. 
Vast quantities of seed is wasted and 
seedlings raised in huge numbers at a — 
time, but most of them are never made 
use of, 
POINTED-HEADED CABBAGE. 
ian Gardener a 
1907 
the addition of 
Endive.—A useful winter substitute for 
lettuce. Sow a little seed. Plant out 
strong seedlings, 
Carrot.—Sow a little seed occasionally. 
Thin out seedlings well, and never allow 
carrcts to become overcrowded or to be 
spoiled by weeds 
Leek.—Sow a little seed in seed-bed, 
and transplant to shallow trenches when : 
large enough—say when the stems are | 
half as thick as one’s finger; or when they y 
are as one’s thumb they may still be 
planted. The soil should be made very 
rich for the leek, which vegetable will 
need a good deal of moisture to enable it 
to grow to perfection, When nearly full 
grown the stems muy be earthed up, in 
order to make them white and tender. 
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Lettuce —Transplant young seedlings 
that seem large enough to stand the 
moving. Take up with a trowel after 
they have been treated to a goed soaking 
‘with water, unless the ground may be iz 
sufficiently moist already. The less the 
roots are broken the better the young 
lettuces will grow. : 
Cress and Mustard.—Sow a little seed 
now aid then during the month. These _ 
salad vegetables can be kept going all 
through the year without much trouble. — 
Onions may be planted out from early 
sowings. Tho soil should be thoroughly 
worked, and brought to a condition of 
fine tilth before planting. Unless the soil 
was heavily-manured for a previous crop 
manure is necessary. 
Onions need constant and perfect surfaec 
cultivation during the growing period. 
