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E. B. COX & Co., Seedsmen, Ete., corner Rundle Street and East Terrace. 
July Number of 
1908 
yw ~ : — a 
ay The Australian Gardener N 
(A Monthly Journal of Floriculture, Horticulture, Agriculture, and Poultry), 
The Vegetable Garden— 
Operations for the Month 
Flower Garden— 
The Abutilon 
The Violet A 
Notes for the Month ~ 
The Orechard— 
- The Pruning Season 
Pruning Fruit Trees 
Eprioriat. 
EDITORIAL. 
“THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER” for this 
month sustains its reputation as a first- 
class publication of interesting instruc- 
tion. The advertising columns are brim 
full of information upon the needs of the 
producer and the consumer. To bring 
these two closer together to their mutual 
advantage is one of the chief objects of 
the publication, and as it succeeds in this 
there is not only satisfaction to the parties 
immediately concerned but algo to “ Tur 
AUSTRALIAN GARDENER” as the medium, 
The articles are carefully chosen for 
accurate and reliable information of a 
seasonable nature. Notes on the flower 
garden will be found usually instructive. 
But above all things the speciality this 
month no doubt is dealing with weeds, 
This is especially the case in new ground 
that has been turned up for the first'time. 
The turning process. suist the weeds 
just nicely, they like it, and grow just 
beautifully. The garden is gone over 
carefully and every bed looks nice for the 
young seedling and bulbs coming on apace 
,and everything feels snug and comfortable 
after the knee-stiffening and back-break- 
ing process of picking out every weed. 
But if neglected for a week just what 
happens is that the youug weeds have 
come again, almost breaking their young 
necks in struggling through the goil to 
face whatever sun and rain there may 
~ be. They love the effort of srowing, and 
if our highly trained and well nursed 
garden beauties had half the vigour of 
_ their despised sisters, the weeds, it is more 
than likely that gardening would be more 
_ popular, the fact being,that flowers could 
CONTAINS— 
The Dairy— 
A Typical Dairy Farm 
New Process of Butter-making 
Intoresting Pars. 
The Farm— 
Value of Ensilage 
German Potato Crop 
Sheep-farming in South Africa 
High Land Values 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
be had without so muchi trouble, which 
argues that the average man and woman 
are rather a lazy lot. An article by Mr 
J.Cronin on the Abutillon, or Chinese 
Lantern, is very interesting. This shrub 
was formerly thought a great deal of and 
is always found in the old established 
gardens, But it seems to have gone ou 
of fashion somewhat, This is rather a 
pity, because the flowers are qnaint and 
pretty, and some of the shrubs shapely. 
As a rule, however, the straggling habit 
of the shrub is against it as a popular 
grower. The varieties mentioned are 
good, and if dealt with according to 
lnstructions in the article, will give pleas- 
ing results. A paragraph upon the violet 
will go straight to the heart of every 
reader, — 
For the farmer the articles upon the 
value of ensilage, sheepfarming in South 
Africa, and high land values will all be 
found opportune. It is just now when 
hay and chaff and bran are 80 high in 
value, and before the green feed gets 
much body into it, that the farmer needs 
to know the true value of a good stock of 
feed. THusilage is the best means of 
storing the overplus of feed when at its 
strongest, and always carries full value 
for the trouble. 
It will be news to a good many people 
that Germany grows more potatoes than 
any other European country. The total 
runs up to 45 million:tons. This produc- 
tion is put into spirit, starch, and pigs, in 
addition to the house consumption. 
An article by Mr P. H. Sutor on a 
typical dairy farm is written in his usual 
free and easy fashion, and contains just 
_theright kind of information from a farm, 
on the spot. Here he tells of the best 
The Poultry Yard— 
Diseases of Fowls : Apoplexy 
Kgg-laying Reeord 
The Young Folks— 
Nature’s Lore 
Marvels of Pond Life 
Wonders of Little Things 
Inventor of the Post Card 
&, &., &e. 
kind of cows to keep, which means that 
any cow that cannot supply two gallons 
for ten months in the year is not worth 
keeping. Then the right kind of feed to 
produce the milk is of prime consideration 
and equal in importance comes the gentle 
handling of the herd the care of shelter, 
and always cleanliness. 2 
For poultry raisers the articles are 
continued on diseases in fowls, and the 
ever popular egglaying competitions have 
a place in the reading matter. 
Now that the orchard crops are 
gathered in there is a little respite from 
the stress of anxious work, but in the 
orchard work is like that of the true 
domestic housewife who is never finished. 
While the weeds are growing in the or- 
chard to be turned in later for green 
manuring, the orchardist is at work with 
his snips, clipping out the wood that 
grows to no profit. In his pruning 
operations his eyes are here, there, and 
everywhere for fruit buds. A long article 
on pruning very properly opens with the: 
advice that the operator shonld have a 
clear conception of what is required and 
what will be the resulting of each cut he 
makes. He should know by the strength _ 
of the acre just what quality of fruit it is 
capable of producing and ripening with- 
out overraxing its strength or running 
risk of damage from over-burdened 
- boughs. 
Our young readers now continue their 
claim upon our space. Having given 
them a taste of something quite as good 
as games, the young folks ure looking 
forward each month to their share in the 
“Gardener.” Here we give them Nature’s 
Soro, the Maryels of Pond Life, and the 
Wonders of Little Things. 
