E. B. COX & Co., Seedsmen, Ete., corner Rundle Street and East Terrace. 
February Number of 
1908 
ip The Australian Gardener W 
(A Monthly Journal of Floriculture, Horticulture, Agriculture, and Poultry), 
The Vegetable Garden— 
Operations for the Month 
Flower Garden— 
The Pentstemon. 
Notes for the Month. 
Dutch Bulbs. 
The Forcing of Roses (concluded). 
Epriorta. 
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CONTAINS— 
The Orcharc— 
Grafting Lemons. 
Pruning Citrus Trees. 
The Dairy— 
Dairy Notes. 
Some Dont’s. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
UR issue of this month is just as 
complete in furnishing information 
in a pleasant way as any of our previous 
numbers, ; 
Operations in the Vegetable Garden’ 
claim first attention. It is difficult to 
understand why everybody cannot grow 
their own vegetahles. ‘Too much trouble 
is the only answer, because nothing could 
be easier. And really, although a cabb:ge 
patch may seem to be a little below the 
dignity of an average flower gardener it 
is pure nonsense to think that there is 
anything undignified about growing cab- 
bages and carrots and onions and so on. 
They are eaten readily enough by every- 
body, indeed in some of the outlying 
places the lack of vegetables is a matter 
of much concern from a health point of 
view. The homely and somewhat despised 
cabbage has been worth a golden sovereign 
many atime. It isa pity that people do 
not cultivate the taste for growing vegs- 
tables. It is just as interesting as growing 
anything else, and far more profitable 
than most things, There is no reason at 
all why a man, or woman for that matter, 
could not grow vegetables all the year 
round. It is a strange piece of ground 
that cannot be made to grow anything 
with the assistance of water, sunshine, 
and manure. The notes supplied in “ THe 
AUSTRALIAN GARDENER” give all the 
necessary information. 
In the Flower Garden division an 
article is devoted to ** The Pentstemon,” 
Attention is specially directed to this 
flower because of the way in which it is 
usually neglected. Some think this flower 
lacks in general appearance and is un- 
attractive. So does any flower that is 
neglected. Pentstemons are amongst the 
freest aad best bloomers, and we lately 
saw in a private garden a collection of 
The Poultry Yard— 
Diseases of Fowls. 
A CANARY RECORD. 
Musrroom Curture FoR AMATEURS, 
INTERESTING TO SMOKERS, 
&e, &c., &e. 
varieties that looked really charming in 
their prime colors and in their shades of 
coloring. The tints in some of the pink 
varieties were really exquisitely soft. 
They grow from slips or seeds without 
any trouble, and a careful selection will 
always give satisfactian 
We are still continuing the article on 
the Forcing ef Roses, and a paper from 
“The Florists’ Exchange” on Dutch Bulbs 
will be found full of that practical interest 
that always gathers around specialities. 
The monthly notes on the work of the 
flower garden gives all the requisite in- 
formation for battling through summer, 
Some people think it hard work to grow 
flowers in summer, Everything is hard 
work that they, do not like. And these 
good folk Jet their garden rest in winter. 
Others, again, are just the reverse. They 
prefer winter gardening, ‘These fads ought 
not to exist in any properly and healthily 
constituted being. Flowers grow and 
bloom beautifully from January to De- 
cember and so should the gardeners. 
Grafting lemons and pruning citrus 
trees are chiefly dealt with in the Orchard. 
Very little understood, and very much 
debated, is the subject of pruning in 
citrus trees. A man must work out the 
theory and put it to practical test. It is 
useless to theorise about it without using 
the knife, for, after all, the knife is the 
true demonstrator of good or bad rea- 
soning, 
The Dairy receives the usual attention, 
and without attention nothing spells 
failure quicker. 
Diseares of fowls occupies the space in 
the Poultry Yard. 
Mushroom culture, is ireated upon for” 
amateurs, Mushrooms are easy to grow 
if you go the right way about it, but: not 
one in a hundred care for the trouble. 
