January 1, 1908 
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THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
PURE 
LOLLIES. 
Send your Order to 
JOHN WALTON, 
Wholesale Manutacturer of every Kind of Choice Sweets, 
"i Wa ENT S&S" ., Adelaide, 
with the bulbs. Planting should take 
place during late autumn or winter, the 
proper depth to plant being that occupied 
by the bulbs before removal, viz., the 
crown or neck of the bulb showing at the 
level of the surface. Hippeastrums require 
fairly moist conditions during the season 
of active growth, and as little water as 
possible when at rest. They are admirable 
subjects for pot culture, some fine speci. 
mens being occasionally seen at horticul- 
tural meetings. An evergreen species (H. 
reticulatum) bears foliage striped with 
white in the centre, anc flowers of shades 
of pink. Several fine hybrids have buen 
raised between this and other species, 
retaining most of the characteristics of 
reticulatum. In most of tbe local nursery 
and seed catalogues hippeastrumns are 
referred to as Amaryllis hybrids. some of 
the finest varieties being comparatively 
rare and expensive. 
Vallota purpurea requires alinost ident 
tical treatment with hippeastrums, and is 
specially suited for pot culture, Severai 
bulbs should be grown in a fairly large 
pot in well drained loamy soil. They 
should remain undisturbed until the pot 
becomes too small owing to the increase 
of bulbs. Over-potting and disturbance 
are the most general causrs of their failure 
to bloom. The soil should never be allowed 
to become dry. Bulbs of vallota are plen- 
tiful and fairly cheap. 
Zephyrauthes require a moister situa- 
tion than the hippeastrums, otherwise the 
culture is practically identizal. Z, carinata 
is one of the best kinds. ~ 
Notes for the Month. 
Frequent light cultivation will keep the 
soil in a condition tending to the matura- 
tion of wood growth. In too many 
gardens the plants are prevented from 
producing ripened growths and perfect 
flowers by bsing incessantly watered 
during the whole of the summer months, 
Such watering causes a forced growth 
irom buds that normally would remain 
quiescent during the greater part of 
summer, and would have steadily de- 
veloped and produced fine bloom in 
season, while the soft forced growths are 
usually destroyed by the great heat and 
hot drying winds of summer. Roses are 
CAOTUS DAHLIAS. 
often treated thus, instead of being 
allowed to assume a state of comparative 
rest during January and February, after 
which, if lightly pruned and thinned, and 
thoroughly watered the teas and hybrid 
teas will develop growths that will pro- 
duce an abundant supply of flowers, fine 
in character. Newly planted roses, and 
other plants and shrubs, not thoroughly 
established, require watering during 
summer, as also do such plants as phloxes, 
bouvardias and others that normally pro- 
duce their flowers at that time. 
Beds for the reception of dahlias in- 
tended for the production of blooms for 
autumn exhibition should receive a final 
digging or hoeing now. If the ground 
was deeply worked and manured earlier, 
a light stirting of the surface will be 
sufficient , if not, a moderate dressing of 
rotted stable manure shonld be thoroughly 
mixed with the soil to a depth of about 
2 feet, Light sandy soils should be 
thoroughly trodden before planting, es- 
pecially if they contain, as they should, a 
fair proportion of manure. IE the soil is 
too free and open a coarse heavy growth 
will follow with flowers lacking quality. 
Dahlias require a. fair amount of room, 
and when grown in beds should be planted ~ 
in rows three to four feet apart, with two 
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or three feet between the plants. When 
planting dahlias from pots care should 
be taken fhat the bulb of soil is not 
broken by the removal, a likely contin- 
gency if the soil in the potsis dry. The 
plants should be thoroughly watered an 
hour before planting is attempted, when 
asharp rap on the odge of the pot, held 
inverted, will detach the plant without 
disturbing the soil. Plants should be set 
out slightly below the surface level, and 
sufficiently watered to moisten the soil 
thoroughly. Tender plants should be 
shaded from hot sunshine for a few days. 
Divisions of crowns are equal to green 
plants for all purposes. ‘ 
Chrysanthemums should be staked and 
the growths supported as they progress. 
The shoots should be reduced to four or 
five at most if large blooms are desired. 
Any lateral growths or suckers occurring 
should be removed, Artificial watering 
will not be necessary at this stage, unless 
the soil is of a very dry nature. 
Daffodils require to be planted in fresh 
soil occasionally. Three years are con- 
sidered long enough for the bulbs to 
occupy a bed or patch. The bulbs may 
be lifted after the death of the foliage. 
and be immediately replanted, or dried 
and stored until February. Ground for 
the reception of the bulbs later should be 
prepared soon, In very poor dry soils a 
dressing of cow manure may be dug 
deeply into the beds or patches, and a 
little bone-dust worked through the soil 
nearer the surface. 
DOUBLE GLORIA DAHLIA. 
