E. B. COX & Co., Seedsmen, Ete., corner Rundle Street and East Terrace. 
eae Number of 
1907 
as g The Au str alia At Gardener 4 
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The Vegetable Garden— 
Operations for the Month 
Flower Garden— 
The Anemone. 
Operations for October, 
Tying. 
Plant Notes. 
Rose—‘ La France.’ 
Ep1Torrat. 
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CONTAINS— 
The Orchard— 
Trap Lanterns and Codlin Moth. 
Notes. 
The Dairy— 
Jolting Milk during Transit. 
Butter Fat in Cream. 
Rearing Calves. 
The Milking Period, 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. - 
EDITORIAL 
THe October issue of “ THe AUSTRALIAN 
GARDENER” is replete with the most 
useful and practical directions for the 
amateur and the professional work in the 
garden, the poultry yard, the orehard, and 
the dairy. 
The operations for the month deal with 
the early battles to be fought against the 
little beasts of prey that come “with the 
buds of spring. If it were not for the 
pests the life of the orchardist would be 
far too easy, and he has the consolation 
of knowing when gathering time comes 
on that if it were not for his strenuous 
efforts in preserving the fruit when young 
he would not sell it when mature, indeed 
it is very doubtful whether it would be 
Having the trees in the 
ground the golden rule for the worker is 
‘that the ground supplies the tiee with 
what it wants to grow fruit. Many 
workers in the orchard appear to overlook 
the fact that the soil is really of more 
importance than the tree itself. Given 
proper conditions the tree will understand. 
what is wanted of it and grow accordingly. 
All plant life is responsive to treat- 
ment. Bad treatment will be resented 
by nature and equally true it is that good 
treatment will receive 2 ready response. 
The tree is a machine for producing fruit 
and bearing this in mind nothingis worth 
doing that does not bring fruit as a 
result: Better leave the tree alone to 
follow its own devices in bearing than 
humbug it about withont any plan of 
operations to bring about a eertain result. 
Among the flowers there is plenty to 
do just now, as our operations clearly 
Weeds are a great nuisance. but 
Journal of Floriculture, Horticulture, Agriculture, and Poultry), 
The Farm— 
Union amongst French Farmers. 
Humus in the Soil. 
The Poultry Yard— 
The Spanish fowl. 
Fattening for Table. 
Deaths from Fatty Degeneration. 
&e, &e., & 
WarttLe GROWING. 
not such a nuisance asa lazy gardener, 
You never hear of a gardener with shar 
shiny hoes and spades and forks, talkin 
about weeds being a nuisance. He doe 
not regard them in that lignt at-all, but 
rather as an indication that where they 
grow best and strongest he will get the 
best results from his plants. Not because 
the weeds are a nuisance, but because the 
soil and condition are favorable to plant 
life and the cutting up of afew weeds 
when young, and he never allows them to 
grow old, is neither a matter of time or 
thought, but just a bit of the day’s routine 
of work. . 
A careful reading of the poultry article 
will repay even those who are not 
keenly interested in the business. The 
man who understands it best is the one 
who writes in a simple, practical fashion. 
Everybody understands him and says 
thank you, for.there is almost sure to be 
something to learn. 
In the dairy notes we are culling from 
the Americans, those marvellous people. 
who seem to havea grip of the art of 
producing goods from the dairy in a way 
that always creates surprise. They do 
euerything so big, so regular, so scientific, 
so altogether for. the mighty dollar, that 
while we do not admire some of their 
business habits we cannot help being 
astonished atthe results. One of their 
secrets lies in carefully recording every- 
thing. They waste nothing, neither time, 
opportunity, nor money. 
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