E. B. COX & Co., Seedsmen, Etc., corner Rundle Street and East Terrace. 
April Number of 
1908 
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oy The Austfalian Gardenet 3 
(A Monthly Journal of Floriculture, Horticulture, Agriculture, and Poultry), 
The Vegetable Garden— 
Operations for the Month 
Flower Garden— 
The Tecoma. 
Notes for the Month. 
Plant Notes. 
Orchids, 
EprioRian. 
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CONTAINS— 
The Orehard— 
How to Utiliso Surplus Orange Crop. 
Drying. 
Pickling Citrus Fruit. 
The Dairy— 
Should Cows be Suripped ? 
_ Dairy Notes. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
EDITORIAL 
Garpens have all been carefully prepared, 
dug, manured, and are now free from 
weeds ready for planting. What to plant 
can all be found in our Garden Notes, 
and how to plant them. The Rose has an 
article to itself, as it always should have, 
because it stands alone the Queen. Then 
the Carnation is dealt with specially, as 
in popularity it is the only rival to the 
Rose. Why do not amateur gardeners 
plant more Bouvardias? It surely must 
be the name that puts it out of court. 
There does not appear to be a ‘ commou 
or garden’ variety of name for Bouvardia, 
This is a pity, because if it could be 
familiarised in some way the plant would 
be appreciated for the beauty of its 
flowers. Now is the time to plant bulbs, 
and no garden should be without Daffodils 
and good ones too. And Verbenas, yes, 
lovely Verbenas; how is it they have 
gone so much out of fashion? Nobody 
seems to care for them now. And 
Fuchsias, too, out of date. All the.same 
we would liketo see them come again 
into fashion, for they can be grown to 
great beauty. Hardy annuals and peren-’ 
nials must be sown, andithose who have 
had the foresight to getithem going early 
in little boxes and tins will begin planting 
out. 
For the slugs? Well, the slugs are 
greedy things and they like savoury 
morsels, But it is disgustingly disap- 
pointing to have your seedlings disappear 
the night after they are planted out. Try 
crystals of sulphate of iron about the 
young plants, not too close on to them, 
but near enough to burn up the slugs 
before they come to the, plants, 
Advice is given about Crotons. Prob- 
ably nine out of every ten amateur gar- 
deners have never heard of Crotons, but 
The Poultry Yard— 
Diseases of Fowls : Tuberculosis, 
Roseworthy Egg-laying Competitiou. 
Poultry Farming. 
What Age for Eggs ? 
Pithy Pars. 
THe Wiszt GARDENER AND His Son. 
&e, &., &. 
when seen and understood their foliage 
creates a fascination not easily lost. They 
are difficult plant to rear, hence their 
exceptional value, and hence the fact that 
very few people know ‘anything about 
them. 
An article dealing with Tecomas brings 
the gardener on to more familiar ground. 
For trellis work, fences, walls, or roofs of 
outhouses these climbers are exceptionally 
beautiful both in foliage and flowers. 
The Orchard articles this month deal 
with the utilisation of surplus orange 
crops, pickling citrns fruits, and drying. 
The making of orange wine will be a new 
production to most growers, but it is 
worth knowing. Making candied peel is 
an art that might be learnt witb advan- 
tage as a by-product, but drying frult 
should be made a big concern, as may be 
readily understood when it is remembered 
that dried apricots will fetch about £100 
a ton in the London market. : 
Poultry breeders and even the backyard 
full of hens will do well to read carefully 
the article -on tuberculosis. The poultry 
notes are full of good advice. and senten- 
ttous romark is made that a farin without 
poultry is like a buggy on three wheels. 
The Dairy notes contain an argument 
_ against the practise of stripping cows. 
Advice is given upon keeping milk and 
making cacam. 
The issue is in “xeeping with ihe repu- 
tation of THz GARDENER as a sound 
practical paper. 
We would direct our readers, especially 
those in the country, attention to Messrs. 
Foy & Gibson’s advertisement on our 
front page, in which they state that their 
great.show of new autumn goods is now 
being held. This is a rare chance to 
secure bargains. Patterns and prices wili 
be sent post free on application. 
