8 THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
April 1, 1908 
Renowued for his Watches Jewellery, and Repairs. 
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plants should be put in without delay, 
and they will probably strike root very 
soon, but they had better not be moved 
and planted for some time to come. The 
more sandy the soil the better for the 
cuttings, which should be protected to 
some extent from the sun, but they must 
not be shaded too much. 
Seeds of all kinds of hardy annuals may 
be sown now, and the sooner the better, 
so that the seedlings can be planted ous 
before the winter sets in. Good seed of 
annuals and perennials can be obtained 
so cheap that for a very sniall sum of 
money a most beautiful collection of 
flowers can be obtained. Some care is 
necessary in sowing the seed, and in the 
rearing of the seedlings, but a little 
attention and practice will soon enable 
anyone to become successful. 
fk, Flowers can be-so easily grown that 
thero is no excuse for anyone to be with- 
out a few, The best way to raise plants 
from seed is to sow in boxes or pots, or 
even old kerosene tins or jam tins, but 
these boves or tins must have holes 
knocked in the bottoms to allow surplus 
water to drain through. Before putting 
soil in these boxes, etc., be sure t» put in 
some drainage matrrial, such as broken- 
up bricks, charcoal, small bones, etc., say 
an inch or two deep, and then fill up with 
soil of a light friable nature. Be ex- 
tremely careful not to sow any seed deep ; 
WHITE SCABIOUS. 
very fine seed should be hardly covered 
at all—merely a little fine soil sprinkled 
over it, and this should be pressed down 
lightly. Before sowing seed it would be 
advisable to water the soil well, aud then 
to let it stand for a short time to settle 
down. Sow thinly, and do not waste seed. 
The chances are that a good deal of the 
seed you sow will not come up, 
Sow seeds of the following different 
kinds of annuals and perennials, and after 
the seedlings have grown to a height of 
an inch or so they may be planted in the 
garden carefully: <nipdragons of varie- 
ties, coluinbines, ev. lastings, dwarf asters, 
daisies, coreopsis, «ampanulas, candytuft 
of varieties, Canterbury bells, cornflowers, 
cowslip, larkspur, escholtzia, everlasting 
peas, forget-me-not, gaillardia, godetia, 
holyhock, lavender, lupins, marigold, 
stocks, mignonette, dwarf nasturtium, 
love-in a-mist, pansy of varieties, sweet 
peas, pentstemon, phlox Drummondii, 
polyanthus, scabious, sweet William, and 
wallflower. These are some of the easiest, 
and some of the prettiest, plants to grow. 
Plant Notes. 
GYPSOPHILA PANICULATA.—There are 
many useful plants that as such are either 
unknown to some florists, or that, by 
reason of their apparant commonness, 
appear to them so unimportant they give 
them little attention, whereas if they 
were grown once they would always find 
a place on a grower’s premises. Promi- 
nent among such plants is Gypsophila 
paniculata. To the retail florist, who 
many a time has occasion for the hurried 
gathering and formation of an attractive 
bunch of outdoor flowers, the graceful 
blossoms and stems of this charming 
plant will be of much use and a source of 
pleasure to the recipient. This is a hardy 
plant and can be used with satisfactory 
results for border planting and rock work, 
as well as for cutting. Seed should be 
sown now in shallow pans or boxes, 
When the little plants are fit to be con- 
veniently handled they should be potted 
up and kept growing for some time, when 
they may be planted in the open ground. 
Some of the eupatoriums aro useful ; if 
a good type of purpureum can be got it 
makes an imposing plant in the border, 
and ageratoides is very fine with its white 
flowers, 
Hyprrtcums.—The half shrubby nature 
of many hypericums has called for their 
use in many situations where partial shade 
exists and where something of the nature 
of these plants is wanted, such, for in- 
stance, as the borders of woods or under 
trees and like places. Hypericums patulum, 
Moserianum and calycinum are examples 
in this class; and wherever tried in the 
way indicated they have proved very 
satisfactory. Some of them are nearly 
half creeping, and when under trees 
which shed their leaves on them in 
autumn, they are nearly evergreen, some 
quite so, Then how well the taller grow- 
ing shrub sorts fit in with a lot of shrubs ! 
Their general compact. upright growth 
and their handsome yellow blossoms—all 
have flowers of this color—contrast well 
with the blooms of other shrubs, for not 
many other yellow-flowered shrubs are 
blooming when the hypericums are, in 
midsummer. H. proliftcum has good sized 
yellow flowers, but not as large as those 
of aureum, which are particularly large 
and showy; and even H. densiflorum is 
worthy of a place in collections, for though 
its flowers are small they are quite numer- 
ons, it beiug well named densiflorum. 
The half shrubby sorts of hypericums can 
be increased by division of the plants, as 
they increase by spreading, to some ex- 
tent; but the shrub kinds do not The 
seeds of hypericum are of dust-like ap- 
pearance, so that great care is required 
when attemptiug to grow them from seods, 
but from green cuttings in summer full 
suecess may be looked for. 
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