E. B. COX & Co., Seedsmen, Etc., corner Rundle Street and East Terrace. 
September Number of 
1907 
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OY The Australian Gardener wy 
(A Monthly Journal of Floriculture, Horticulture, Agriculture, and Poultry), 
The Vegetable Garden— 
Operations for August 
Flower Garden— 
The Violet-and the Pansy. 
Plant Notes. 
Propagation of Ornamentai Nursery 
Stock 
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CONTAINS— 
The Orchard-— 
Operations for August. 
The Horse— 
Points of the Draught Horse. 
Troublesome Light-harness Horses. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
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EDITORIAL 
Tue September issue of “ Toe AUSTRA- 
LIAN GARDENER ” js full of practical and 
interesting information to all producers 
from the soil, ‘’he less profitable but 
equally interesting occupation of garden: 
ing amongst the flowers receives a full 
share of reading matter. With flower gar- 
-deners this month occupies every moment 
of leisure that can be given. And to 
make the coming beautiesrich in profusion 
lots of time must be robbed from other 
interests. But the industrious gardener is 
always well repaid for ev. rythiny in the 
way of time, labour, and money that he 
puts into the beauty spots about his house 
Nothing is more gratifying to every 
_ member of a household and to all visitors 
. and casual passers-by than a neat, well. 
kept, and well-stocked garden of flowers, 
Life with ut flowers would hardly be 
worth the living. 
With this in view our plant notes and 
special articies on the violet and the pansy 
will appeal to our readers 
We are reproducing from the ¢ Florists’. 
Exchange’ a very practical and interestiny 
article on the timely subject of propaga 
gining with the method of the production 
_ of plants by the seed method the writer 
goes on with instructions in the stooling 
and layering system. Then follows the 
perhaps easier and more popularly known 
methods of workiug the plants from cut- 
tings. Next is the more patiently yet 
more interesting nursing of plants under 
glass, and finally the most fascinat vg pro- 
cess of graftin . 
been acquired by the amateur we know of 
Be-. 
Once this method has 
The Poultry Yard — 
Points of the Bird. 
The Wyandotte (continued) 
Nests for Sitting Hens. 
Preserving Eggs. 
&e, &., &. 
nating. It is so easy, too. A few failures 
at the beginning only serve to make the 
successes more interesting, and so the 
charm Jures on the patient ones to win 
from nature some of the choicest and 
happiest results. a 
In the Orchard this month there will 
be no lack of shining implements, hard 
hands, and back strengthening exercises, 
Laying out new ground and planting up. 
should be well in hand, and we should 
advise very strougly those who are plant- 
ing up new stuff to make their collection 
wijh a far away look in their eye. To 
find at the end of four or five years” 
patient time and labor that the wrong 
trees have been planted in the wrong 
places are results that break up a man’s 
enthusiasm more than anything. Trees 
that do not take and have to be replanted 
are all in the fortunes or misfortunes of 
the orchardist to be borne with a light 
heart, but’ when a tree turns out a useless 
kind of thiug after years of careful nursing 
it is exasperating Therefore selection of 
sorts that are likely to repay the time and 
labor are of the utmost importance. We 
have from time tv time given specially 
prepared lists «f all varieties that have. 
prove | themselves worthy of growins. 
Oar Poultry Yard observations are full 
of informa ion in this quickly growing 
industry. An industry which has grown 
more quickly than any other in Australia, 
and one which will pay well when, like 
everything else, it is properly managed, 
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