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THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
September 2, 1907 
Roses 3 All the leading varieties, half-standards, 1s. each 
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Fruit Crees 3 Orange, Lemon, Peach, Apple, Pear, ]?lum, etc’ 
HARDY SHRUBS, Trees, Climbers, etc. 
BULBS, Myacinth, Daffodil, Amemone, Tuberose, 
Gladiolus. 
S&S Ec Es p BD) = 3 Vegetable aud Flower. Agricultural, Horticultural Sundries in an variety. 
E. & W. HACKETT, 
Seedsmen, Nurserymen, S5C., 
73 Rundle Street, Adelaide. 
WHITE 
Telephone 350 
VIOLtT. 
purplish red; California, y olet purple ; 
La France, violet blue; Italia, violet ; 
Margaret, violet; John Radden»erry, 
pale blue; White Czar, white; and 
Princess of Wales, violet purple, the 
popular market variety, and the best 
violet in cultivation. 
The pansy of to-day is a descendant of 
Viola tricolor, also a native of Britain. 
Like the violet it succeeds best in col 
districts, but can be grown to produce its 
flowers during winter and spring in any 
part of the State. Pansies are divided 
into three sections, viz., the Show, Fancy, 
and Tufted or Bedding Pansy, the latter 
being also known by the generic name 
Viola. The show pansies are mostly self 
colored white, black, yellow, etc., aud are 
of medium size. The most popular section 
here is the fancy pansy, the plants being 
stronger, and the blooms larger and more 
varied in their colorings and markings 
than the show varieties. The fancy pansy 
ig of Continental origin and has been 
greatly improved of late years by English 
horticulturists. The tufted pansies par- 
take more of the character of the show 
pansy than the fancy, but are hardier 
than either, enduring a deal of summer 
heat without injury. 
The patsy thrives best in a fairly porous 
loam that has been deepl; worked and 
enriched. Heavy dense soils need an 
admixture of sand, grit, or ashes, to make 
them sufficiently friable and porous, while 
light and sandy soils will be rendered 
more suitable by the addition of clay or 
strong loam, and cow manure. Although 
a perennial plant the pansy is usually 
treated as an annuai. 
The increase of specially fine plants is 
effected by striking cuttings—produced 
in the centre of the plants after blooming 
—in sandy soil in a cold frame, or by 
dividing the plants. Generally a fresh 
batch of plants is raised from seeds each 
season in most parts of the State. The 
plants are nearly certain to be attacked 
by red spider during summer, and it is 
considered more profitable to destroy the 
plants and raise a new supply from seeds, 
than to attempt to cope with the pest. 
To raise plants that will begin to flower 
early in winter, the seed should be sown 
about the end of January in boxes of light 
soil placed in a sheltered situation or cold 
frame. The seedlings may be transplanted 
into beds and sheltered during very hot 
weather until the autuinn, when they 
should be planted in their flowering 
quarters. The position selected should 
be open and sunny, the edge of an 
exposed border being suitable. Seeds 
sown in the open ground during winter 
or spring will produce plants that will 
bloom during summer and autumn if the 
position selected is sheltered and moist. 
Plants intended for late flowering should 
be mulched and liberally watered during 
summer to promote growth and check the 
red spider. Several strains of pansy seeds 
are offered for sale by local seedsmen, one 
of the best being Bath’s “‘ Empress,” a 
noted strain of fancy pansies. 
Plant Notes. 
DaHLiAs are good for cutting, are de- 
corative in their growing state ; they are 
interesting in their variableness as well 
as sometimes surprisingly novel in the 
product resulting from seed saved from 
plants grown even on the premises the 
year before, 
ANTIRRHINUMS—Among what are gene- 
more serviceable to florists through the 
rally termed common flowers there are few 
Summer than antirrhinums; in fact a 
florist possessed of taste and good judg- 
ment often makes up a piece composed 
for the most part of antirrhinums equal 
to that made up of far more expensive 
flowers. Antirrhinums do pretty well in 
any kind of soil, but to get good long 
spikes they require to be planted in rich 
soil. 
Brgonias.—There are few plants with 
which it is so necessary to be careful that 
they are hardened off thoroughly before 
planting in the open ground as begonias. 
Jf they are not so hardened they will in 
all probability blanch and wither in two 
or three days after planting. They may. 
