520 QUEENSLAND ‘AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Noy., 1899. 
In the outside garden you will find the winter flowering plants, such as 
the many varieties of annuals which made the garden so gay, are going off 
rapidly, We make a point never to leave these after they begin to look shabby. 
A plant on the down grade, too, is a favourite abiding-place for insects. There 
is nothing so effective in a garden during the summer as large masses of 
amaranthus. Last week we sowed, to be ready a little later, balsam, zinnia, 
Gomphrina globosa, summer asters, summer chrysanthemum, calliopsis, 
Drummondii, Amaranthus bicolor, nemopila, anthirrhinum, Gaillardia Lorenzia. 
Seed of many varieties of tropical plants which do not usually come within the 
operations of the ordinary gardener or amateur were also sown. Coffee seeds 
have been gathered and prepared for sowing. 
Plants on yeraudas will require careful attention in the matter of watering 
now. If I were growing veranda plants in Queensland, I should plunge all 
the pots in neat boxes of fine ashes during this very hot weather. The plants 
would flourish better, and there would not be the same need for continual 
watering ; besides, they could be very effectively grouped in this way. 
