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THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
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September 1, 1908 
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FUCHSIA “ PHENOMENAL.” 
The Flower Garden, 
- Notes for the Month. - 
During the month of September plants 
of all kinds made rapid growth, snd the - 
garden becomes beautiful with fresh 
young foliage and numerous flowers. 
Those who have been watching with in- 
terest for their new plants to flower will 
soon be gratified, for during this and the 
following month (October) all the spring 
flowers will have expanded. The ane- 
mones, ranunculses, datfodils, forget me- 
nots, pansies, hyacinths, violets, some 
early roses and many other plants should 
bein bloom One of the most welcome 
of little flowers #s the sweet violet. 
Everyone likes the violet, and very 
properly so, if only for its delicious 
fragrance; but the best kinds are not 
always grown. for there are many va— 
rities of more or less merit, and amongst: 
the best are the doubles, which succeed 
well in cool districts. It is a great mis- 
take to allow violets to grow for years in 
the same spot without taking them up 
sometimes, dividing and replanting after 
the ground has been well dug and 
manured. In some cases it would be- 
advisable to throw away all the old plants 
and obtain healthy new ones. 
Comparatively tender plants, such as 
bouvardias, may be planted, and they 
will soon push ahead and make good 
plants. _ Bouvicias bear very pretty 
flowers indeed, and are easy to grow. 
If the soil should be very dry they will 
need watering or they will probably 
die away. There are many varieties, and 
some of the best are brilliant, bearing 
flowers of a bright red color; Candi- 
dissima, white, one of the most useful of 
bouvardias; Dazzler, scarlet; Elegans 
brilliant scarlet; Hogarthii flore pleno, 
rosy salmon, double-flowered; Humboltii 
corymbiflora, large white sweet-scented 
flower; Laura, pink, Longiflora Glam- 
mea, rose; Maiden’s Blush, a very useful 
one, flowers pale pink; President Gar- 
field, pale peach, donble-flowered ; 
Priory Beauty, rose-colored ; Triomphe 
de Nancy, orange salmon, double-flow- 
ered; Umbellata carnea, blush; Vree- 
landi, white; Jacquinii, scarlet, a most. 
useful but old variety ; President Oleyoe- 
land, deep scarlet, one of the best of the 
bouvardias. 
You should prune back rather hard 
any plant of bouvardias there may be 
growing in the garden. 
At this time plant out pelargoniums or 
other evergreen plants or seedlings which 
may be in stock, but be sure to water 
them well and shade from the sun until 
they become well established. 
Sow seeds of tender annuals and per- 
renials either in the garden or in boxes 
or kerosene tins, or anything that will 
contain soil. so long as it has an opening 
in the bottom to allow of surplus waters 
draining away. Anything planted out 
this month will need a good deal of care 
and attention, if the weather is hot and 
dry, as it often is in September, 
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This is what an English gardener says— 
He who makes most money out of his 
strawberies gathers as soon ag dawn 
breaks, and the man who washes off the 
