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THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. | 
November 1. 1907 
Lanxy Crorons with tops of good color 
can be used to advantage in the filling up 
of fireplaces and in the formation of plant 
groups in any part of dwellings. Dracenas 
of like character can be used in a similar 
way. These plants work wonders when 
skilfully arranged along with palms and 
other plants of adullcolor. These can be 
and draczenas will come in handy later en 
for furnishing propagating material for 
fresh stock. Any of the above noted 
plants not needed, and not good as 
specimens can be planted out in the open 
and taken up ater for stock. 
Frrronras, marantas, and small well 
colored plants of Pandanus Veitchii make 
up exquisitely when used together in 
dishes or baskets. Panicum variegatum, 
when used sparingly, helps to color up 
such work, besides giving it a light, 
graceful finish, 
A New Race «F PeLarcontum.—The 
German hybridists haye in recent years 
succeeded in calling into existence a rac 
of pelargoniums of a self-supporting bushy 
habit, wonderful coloring, and a freedom 
in flowering that is quite remarkable (says 
the English Horticultural Trade Journal). 
These have found great favor as market 
plants. The most successful hybridists 30 
far are Hrn. Max Biirger, of Halberstadt, 
and Hrn. Faiss, of Fewibach, near Stutt- 
cart, and both of them showed plants at 
Mannheim. One of the finest of Faiss’ 
varieties is Deutscher Rhum (1906);-the—— 
flowers have the coloring of the petals of 
Cattleyia labiata, with two large purplish 
magenta-red blotches. Equally good, and 
belonging to the P. Odier section are the 
three following varieties, viz, Andenken 
an Friedrich Schiller (1905) ; the flowers 
of a bright flame color with five sharply 
marked black patches, a striking very free 
flowering variety, and first-class market 
plant; Wolfgang Goethe, having flowers 
of dark purplish carmine with five clearly 
defined, deep violet spots, large and slightly 
waved; Ludwig Uhland (19:6), !arge cir- 
cular blooms, of an aniline red color, also 
decorated with five dark violet patches, 
very peculiar in regard to the color; the 
growth of this plant is moderate as regards 
the height, and robust. A conspicuous 
representative of the P. diadematum class 
is Wilhelm Hauff (3906), the flowers light 
purplish rose-pink with white stripes and 
chestnut-brown spots in the two upper 
petals, extremely abundant bloomer, 
strongly waved blooms, and large trnss. 
Another of the Odier pelargoniums is 
‘Ostergruss, a novelty of 1905, one of the 
earliest and latest to bloom. The colors 
are bright amaranth, spotted black on the 
five petals. 
H GEBHARDT (August J. Gebhardt) 
e Locksmith, Gunsmith and Machi- 
nist, Grenfell Street (Rear of No. 70, 
right opposite Bible House) Adelaide. 
Repairs to Garden Tools and Implements 
a speciality, Keys fitted to any lock or 
any given sample. ; ; 
New Varieties IN Canna. - Herrn. 
Pfitzer has two pew canna varieties which 
by reason of their dark colors are very 
attractive. and should be brought to the 
notice of our readers. W. Pfizer describes 
them as follows :—Mephisto. leaves deep 
dark green, flowers blackish purple blood 
red with amaranth, velvety, one of the 
darkest colored varieties of the day ; 
Schwabenland, leaves brownish-red mar- 
bled dark greet, flowers grand, four 
petaled, velvety dark red flower spikes, 
loose, and grrceful, well elevated above 
the striking foliage.—Mollers’ Deutsche 
Gartner Zeitung. 
Primuas, -— There are some plants 
considered of little value commercially, 
not from any want of inerit in the plants 
themselves, but because they are usually 
so poo:ly grown that they are practically 
insignificant and worthless, and this can 
be said with more truth perhaps of prim- 
ulas than any other plants. There are 
but few things more unsightly than poor 
starved primulas with foliage and flowers 
but half developed;.on the other hand, 
if primulas and cinerarias as well are 
grown in such a manner that all they are 
capzble of is brought out there is no 
question but that their cultivation is as 
profitable as that of many other things 
that take more time and labor to bring 
to perfection. Don’t starve them for 
want of pot room; don’t let them yet 
dry; keep them as cool as possible. 
Corron-GRowiIne IN NorTtHERN TERRI- 
toRY,—Tbe Northern Territory of Aus- 
tralia consists of 335,116,800 acres, and 
has a coastal frontage of 1,200 miles to 
the Indian Ocean, and in the immediate 
neighborhood of Port Darwin, which is 
inhabited principally by Chinese, sugar- 
cane, cinnamon, ramie or vegetable silk 
hemp, cocoanuts, rubber, and many other 
plants of economie value are successfully 
cultivated. ‘he population is small in 
the extreme, containing only 900 whites 
and 2,700 Chinese, in addition to the 
aborizinal population, There can be no 
doubt that the climate and a large portion, 
of the soil are eminently suitable for the 
cultivation of cotton—so much so, that 
cotton has disseminated itself without the 
help of man, and may also be considered 
as part of the North Australian flora, and 
is found for nearly 400 miles inland. 
The fact that of the eight species of 
gossypium or cotton seven varieties are 
found in the Northern Territory, while 
two occur only in Queensland, South 
Australia, and Western Australia, and 
one only in New South Wales, shows 
conclusively that the Northern Territory 
is the natural home of the cotton plant. 
ADDY, J. C., & SON, Funeral Direc- 
tors and Oarriage Proprietors, 
All Funerals conducted under personal 
supervision. 113 Flinders St., Adelaide 
Phones—Adelaide 1077, Port 110, and 
Semaphore 255. and Jetty Road, Glenelg. 
Phone 78, 
The Orchard. 
Codlin Moth Spraying, 
[By George Quryy]. 
As soon as the flowers fall from the 
apple and pear trees, spraying should be 
applied to them to prevent attacks of the 
first brood of codlin moths, There are 
various arsenical compounds which have 
proved useful against these insects, 
amongst which are Kedzie’s arsenite of 
soda in limewater ; paris green, which is 
arsenite of copper, and arsenite of lead 
There is often difficulty in obtaining paris 
green in a pure state, and, owing to the 
great rapidity with which it sinks to the 
bottom of the spray-vessel it is more 
trouolesome to distribute evenly than the 
other two. In this State Kedzie’s formula 
has proved, when properly applied, to be 
very effective. In Victoria a great many 
growers favor arsenite of lead spray 
Although both of these preparations may 
be bought already made up, should any 
fruitgrowers wish to prepare them them- 
selves, they can do so by the following 
processes .—Kedzie’s Forinnla— Boil 1 lb. 
of white arsenic with 2 lb. of washing 
soda in uw gallon of water until the whole 
is dissolved. which will tase from twenty 
minutes to hilf an hour. This should be 
securely bottled, and lubelled ‘* Poison,” 
and at the sume time Le kept away from 
the reach of children and thoughtless 
personr. For use aga spray take from 
6 to 8 lb. of freshly-burnt lime, and slake 
it in a few gallons of water. When slaked 
strain out any unliquefied sediment; 
then pour in 1 pint of the arsenic solu- 
tion, and after it has stvod and been 
stirred for some little time make up the 
bulk for spraying to 40 gallons. The 
formula for making the arsenite of lead 
spray, as yviven by the Victorian Journal 
of Agriculture, consists of boiling 1 lb of 
arsenic and 2 |b. of washiny soda in halt 
a gallon of water until they are dissolve | 
Then 7 Ib. of acetate of lead is dissofved 
in one gallon of warm water. When th s 
has cooled down, the arsenic-soda solution 
is gradually stirred into it until both are 
thoroughly mixed. This will give about 
12 pints of stock solution, and 1 pint is 
used in 30 gallons of water. It is needless 
to say this stock solution should also be 
labelled ‘* Poison” and kept out of reach. 
It may be mentioned that the arsenic 
solution and the lead-acetate solution 
should not be mixed warm, or great effer- 
vescence will result, and the compound is 
apt to waste out of the vessel. It may be 
worth while repeating that all of these 
arsenical compounds are insoluble in 
water when they are properly blended for 
spraying, consequently they must be 
constantly agitated whilst being applied 
through the spray-pump, because it is the 
fine particles suspended in the water 
which form the remedy, Should they be 
