E. B. COX & Co., Seedsmen, Ete., corner Rundle Street and East Terrace. 
June Number of 
1908 
oy The Nusttalian Gardener a 
(A Monthly Journal of Floriculture, Horticulture. Agriculture, and Poultry), 
The Vegetable Garden— 
Operations for the Month 
Flower Garden— 
The Sunflower. 
The Geranium. 
Notes for the Month. 
Raising Plants from Seed. 
EprroriaL, 
EDITORIAL. 
Tne June number of “THe AustRaLIAN 
GARDENER” contains thirty-two pages. 
This success in the publication is beyond 
our expectations, and the generous re- 
sponse of our clients and subscribers to 
enterprise of all concerned is exceedingly 
gratifying. We yeild with great good will 
to the demand upon our space and are 
‘quite prepared to extend the publication 
by an equal number of pages every issue 
to keep pace with the wishes of the public 
demand for a publication so full of prac- 
tical matter to the producer, from a com- 
mercial point of view, and those who read 
for information upon subjects of interest 
in the garden, on the farm, and the dairy. 
This extension of the publication will 
now go on until it stands iu the forefront 
of technical literature and we shall be 
able to present to our readers the cheapest 
and best of its kind in the States. As the 
means for advertising produce, agricul- 
tural requirements, and the thousand and 
one accessories to homes in and around 
the city and in country life there is per- 
haps no better medium, In addition to 
this the buyers and sellers of land for 
farming, gardening, and suburban settling 
will find in the columns of the GARDENER 
information where to go and who to goto 
for the best advice. 
The articles come from the best sources 
and are in all eases absolutely reliable. 
This month the kitchen gardener will 
find just what he wants to know abou t 
vegetable growing, We never could under 
stand why the kitchen in every house that 
has a yard or two of ground to spare 
should not be supplied with fresh vege 
tables. Any man or woman can scatter a 
CONTAINS— 
The Dairy— 
The Kicking Cow. 
After-birth in Cows. 
What a Grade of Buttor Means. 
The Farm — 
Science in Agriculture. 
Giving Medicine to Hoeses. 
Reinforced Concrete Silo. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. | 
few peas and beans about on a bit of 
turned up ground, and they will grow 
into a dish of vegetables that cannot be 
bought from the greengrocer. We do 
not advocate such a means of growing 
vegetables but merely mention it to show 
how easy it is todo For instance, a piece 
of ground 4 or 5 feet long and a foot wide 
will grow enough mustard and cress to 
keep the table supplied with a delicate 
bit of salading for cold meat for weeks. 
How much nicer it is to have a tasty bit 
ef salading of mustard and cress, or 
lettuce, or radishes, than simply dry cold 
meat alone. The trouble is a mere 
nothing but pleasure in the day’s routine, 
and the result is alike gratifying and 
pleasant. This, too, is not only for to-day 
or to-morrow, but can be carried on all 
through the year. Hvery month we pub- 
lish the list of good things to be had for 
the dining table, 
Nobody likes to be without flowers for 
the house both inside and outside, but 
the yreatest satisfaction is always found 
in having some, if not all, of the best. 
Why not. Buy them? Well, yes, some 
people find some pleasure in spending 
money on the purchase of flowers. We 
‘have nothing to say against that, It is 
But we 
good business for the florist. 
have alot to say about the pleasure of 
growing flowers, the best, the prettiest, 
the daintiest, and the freshest flowers for 
the front garden, the side garden,. the © 
back garden, on the fences, over the out- 
houses, all over the house in fact. Every- 
where there should be flowers to gladden 
the heart and please the eye. They cost 
so little and give so much pleasure. Now 
is the time to get the bulbs growing for 
the earliest dawning of spring. Have a | 
succession of them. Put some in every 
geranium in it. 
no recreation in the wide world 
The Orchard— 
Treatment of Orange Trees. 
Arsenate of Lead Spraying. 
The Poultry Yard— ; 
Diseases of Fowls : Chicken-pox, 
Beware of Carbolic Acid, 
The Young Folks— 
The Life Story of the Common Arum, 
&e, &., &e. 
week and flowers will come and keep on 
coming without a break. Thr article on- 
raising plants from seed will tell the gar- 
dener how to do it. The old-time Ger- 
anium has an article all to itself. Was 
there ever a garden anywhere withont a 
But do not be content 
with one or half a dozen. Have a lot, and 
have them all of the best. It is just as 
easy to grow the best as the worst. Any 
nurseryman will tell you that. He will 
also be only too happy to tell you the 
how and when and why. Ask him. He © 
won’t mind in the least, and you will be — 
good friends for ever after. It is his 
business to make friends, to encourage 
them to know things, and it is your 
business to find out things that will — 
make life happier than it is. There is 
so grati- 
fying as gardening. : : 
The young folks are again remembere 
in this issue. We have received many 
‘pleasing references to this column intro- 
duced last month. All children are fond — 
of flowers. and all children should be 
taught to grow them. They never forget 
it, and itis part of a lifelong education 
which gives them perhaps more genuine 
satisfaction than anything else they may 
have learned, eae 
Agriculture is well looked after in this. 
issue, and some interesting information 
may be gleaned from this source. . 
The article on diseases of fowls which 
has found so mnch favor amongst poultry — 
keepers is continued. A warning regard- 
ing the use of carbolic acid is given. 
~The Orchardist has two articles: that 
‘will repay him’ to read, especially the- 
fortunate proprietor of an orangery. > 
The Dairy is also supplied with somo. 
useful information. ; 
