4 THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
The Flower Garden. 
Seeds may be sown for later transplant in 
or for salading. 
EXTRA EARLY WHITE NOCERA ONION. 
Parsnip.—If a large supply of this 
vegetable be required, seed may be sown 
to any desired extent. 
Peas.—As this is one of the best vege- 
tables any one could grow, an endeavour 
to keep a rupply going should be made. 
Plants well grown should be producing 
abundance of peas. The pods should be 
gathered whilst they are young and the 
peas tender and eatable, Do not allow 
any peas to ripen, and the plants will 
continue to preduce. Try several varieties 
Sow as freely as you like. 
Radish —Keep a supply going by sow- 
ing a few seeds two or three times during 
the month. A very little seed is likely to 
to suffice. Manure well with rotted dung. 
Cowdung will most likely prove to be the 
most satisfactory. Use the radishes whilst 
they are quite small and tender. . 
Herbs.—In warm localities all sorts of 
herbs may be planted or old plants can 
be taken up, divided, and replauted. 
Successional crops of peas, lettuce, etc., 
may be sown. Some fine specimens of a 
new rhubarb were shown at the Victorian 
autumn horticultural exhibitions. It is 
named ‘ Stone’s Ever-bearing Ruby,’ and 
is-a locally-raised variety. The stems are 
of good color, large but not coarse, and 
are freely produced during winter and 
summer. 
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Make early sowings of Half-Hardy or 
Tender Annuals on heat. Plant Gladioli, 
Delphiniums, and Chrysanthemums 
Manuring and digging beds and borders, 
pruning and planting deciduous trees and 
shrubs may be performed at this season. 
The greater part of the small prunings of 
shrubs and herbaceous plants, and all 
leaves should be dug into the beds if 
room for the purpose is available. If this 
cannot be done without damugiug roots 
of plants growing in the beds the prunings, 
etc., may be heaped and mixed with soil 
and manure to decay and be worked into 
the soil later. : 
Where bulbs such as narcissi, tulips, 
etc., are grown in special beds, the surface 
should be lightly worked and cleaned to 
obviate the necessity of such cleaning 
later in the season, when the foliage will 
be much more extensive, and the work 
will be difficult to perform without damag- 
ing the leaves of the plants. It should be 
remembered that the leaves of a plant 
perform functions similar to those per- 
formed by the skin, lungs, and stomach 
of an animal, and that their destruction 
or even injury must have a detrimental 
effect on the plant. When the leaves are 
ripening and falling their work is done, 
but young growing foliage should gene- 
tally be carefully nurtured. 
Roses may be pruned this month. 
Where cuttings are required for propa- 
gation they may be taken without entirely 
pruning the plants. In deep sandy soil 
rose plants often produce very strong 
shoots early in the season that fail to 
ripen and often die back in winter. This 
should be prevented in a measure if the 
soil was rammed hard before planting the 
rose. Any manure used when planting 
shoull be fairly rotted. and worked into ~ 
the svil below and around the site in- 
tended for the plant, but should not be 
brought into contact with roots, 
Rose-growers are usually anxious to 
“know the probable value of. the new 
varieties that are distributed each season 
by the nursery trade. Several of the new 
kinds offered this season are very promis- 
ing, including Mrs Myles Kennedy, silvery 
white, flushed and edged with pink; 
William Shean, pink, a very promising 
variety ; Mrs Peter Blair, deep yellow, 
may not be large enough for exhibition, 
but a good rose for the garden; Madame 
Constant Soupert, yellow, shaded peach ; 
Mrs G. W. Kershaw, pink, resembling 
Belle Siebrecht ; Lady Rossmore, reddish 
crimson ; Warrior, deep red, a decorative 
rose resembling Papa Gontier, but much 
darker in color; and Lena, also a decora- 
tive vatiety, producing long buds of a 
bright apricot color. 
