August 1, 1907 
are very pretty when nicely cleaned and 
arrauged ius a said, Prepare the ground 
well, and use plenty of well-rotted rich 
manure. Sow but a few seeds at a time, 
say once or twice a week, in drills, 
FRENCH BREAKFAS4 lV ADISH 
_ Savoy.—Sow a little seed and treat it 
as you wouli the cabbage, using plenty 
of manure. — 
Spinach.—Sow a little seed now and 
then during the month to keep up a 
supply if required, in drills 2 feet apart, 
and thin out the seedlings when they 
come up to about 1 foot from plant to 
plant. 
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es 
Kertis sc——. 
NEW ZEALAND SPINACH, 
Swede.—Sow a litile seed occasionally 
in drills. ; 
Tomato.—Raise in a warm pro‘ected 
‘place « few plants if cuttings of last year’s 
plants are not rootel. The seedlings will 
need protection froin frosts where: they 
are likely to occur, 
Turnip.—Sow a little seed in drills, 
Herbs.—These may he planted out 
* whetiever required ~A veyetable garden 
should never be without a good collection 
#ud some little trouble shoulu be taken 
to keep the plants indecent order. Very 
often they are neglected, and have nota 
fair chance to grow properly. 
* 
‘THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
| Whe Flower | Garden. 
Roses. 
This world that we’re a livin’ in 
Is purty hard to beat, 
You get a rose with every thorn. 
But—ain’t the roses sweet ? f 
The time has come when the renova- 
tion, or laying out of beds and borders of 
reses must be taken in hand, the work to 
the enthusiastic amateur being a labor of 
love. The successful rose-grower Of neces- ». 
sity is an unalienable worshipper of the 
Queen of Flowers, for his appreciation of 
the pre-eminent blooms leads by encour- 
aging observation and stimulating atten- 
tion to intelligent and systematic culti- 
vation. Some, while admitting the sweet 
fragrance of the rose, and the beauty and 
luxuriance of a neighbor’s garden, get 
only the thorns instead of the roses, for 
with half-hearted work they plant their 
trees, expecting them, because they are 
sorts recommended by a successful rose 
exhibitor, to establish themselves and 
grow out into floriferous wonders for all 
the vicinity to admire. But the best 
results only come from knowledge and a 
continuity of effort, and it is well that it 
koOsse—tHe * BESSIE BROWN, 
is so, for it gives the results to the genuine 
lover, whose motto is “ The rose first : 
spectacular display and exhibitions after.’’ 
The result is that the trne lover eventually 
gets the best results, and having the roses, 
also obtains the display and the compe- 
titive successes, discovering more and 
more as time goes on a suitable and in- 
spiring charm about the rose, so fragile 
and so sweet, that he is proud to confess 
with the ancient poet that 
Should Jove appoint some flower to reign 
In matchless beauty on the plain, 
The -ose, mankind will all agree, 
The rose the Queen of Flowers should be. 
Roses are better when grovn in beds 
or borders specially prepared for them, 
In mixed borders they frequently do well, 
but are oftimes allowed to become prac- 
tleally choked out of all opportunity for 
development by the juxtapositien of 
gross-growing shrubs. See that they 
have ample room. ‘They delight in an 
abundance of light and air, and yet 
require «)clter from keen boisterous cold 
winds, au «!so from hot gnes. ‘They will 
grow in alinost any soil, tut, generally 
speaking, do best in a des) “+h and 
