September 1, 1908 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 7 
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HARDY SHRUBS, Trees, Climbers, etc. 
BULBS, HMyacinth, Daffodil, Anemone, Tuberose, 
SEED s ;.. 
Gladiolus. 
getable and Flower. Agricultural, Horticultural Sundries in great variety. 
E. & W. HACKETT, 
Seedsmen, Nurserymen, Be. 
7S Rundle Street, Adelaide. 
Telephone 350 
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THE OLD FAVORITE 
DIAMOND TOB 
Dark Twist, 8s, Ib. Aromatic, 3s. 9d. 
A000, 
“Obtainable at all Stores, or of the Sole Agents— 
W. CORNELL & Co., 55 Rundle Street, Adelaide. | 
White frost from his early potatoes is also 
Up early in the morning, also the one 
Who effectively dust sprays, Thecnckoo 
Slhgs its clodrest when hunting for cater- 
Pillars and birds’ eggs early in the morn- 
Mg. The grower for market who does 
Not get up in the morning loses all the 
Sreatest, pleasures of the open-air country 
ife. as well as his money- ‘ 
A method of destroying ants in a 
Hower-border or shubbery, which is stated 
%0 be effective is as follows:—As it is 
Usually undesirable to remove the plant 
°r plints where the ants’ nest is. the 
troublsome insects may be trapped by 
taking a good-sized garden pot, stop up 
the whole at the bottom, half fill it with 
f8ves, and place its bottom upwards on 
‘the ground close to the plant; then water 
.; 28 plant copiously every day sous to keep 
the ‘sail thoroughly saturated. The ants 
Will soon begin to move their nest to the 
shelter of the pot, which in a fortnight’s _ 
“Me may be taken carefully away, when 
“it will be found to contain the nest. Ants 
40 not feed on the roots of plants as some 
*Tsons imagine, but they do injury by 
preventing the roots from being in close 
contact with the soil. The insects are 
generally found to be after the aphides 
which attack the roots. 
The Americans are most lavish in their 
eXpenditure upon floral decortions. One 
instance nay be given here. A mypgni 
ficent dinner-party was recently given at 
the Hotel Pfister, to Milwaukee friends, 
by Mr J. B. Regan, proprietor of. the 
Hotel Knickerbocker, New York. .The 
table was spread beneath an immense 
umbrella of American Beauty roses and 
daffodils, and had for its centre a minia- 
ture Jake 20ft long, and 3ft wide, spanned f 
by two rustic bridges, and lined along its» 
banks with moss and wat:r-lilies. Duck- 
lings and goslings swam abont in: the 
water, and therein a fountain played. 
Strings of smilax were festooned from the 
corners of the fables to the sides of the 
room, which were banked with palms and 
ferns, among which glowed myriad elec- 
tric lights, 13 
Blanchon, the naturalist, says that 
most floral perfumes are in reality: 
citants, which stimulate and then provoke 
a reaction —that is, 2 weakness equal to 
the quantity of power employed at the 
moment of excitation, Perfumes, in fact, 
act as alcoholic acts. Their chief virtue 
is their antiseptic quality. The bacilli 
of typhoid has been killed in from 12 to 
8: minutes by different essence .. Scent- 
Slving flowers are not as is often stated 
bad in sick rooms. But they shoald be 
chosen in view of their effects on the ner- 
vous system, or of their antiseptic quali- 
ties. Growing flowers are the best. 
Flowers with delicate perfumes act favor- 
ably on the nervous system. 
_ Auew fruit has recently been exhibited 
in Londen. It was obtained by crossing 
the native blackberry with the Logan 
berry. The fruits are deep black in 
colour, from lin. to Ifin. in length, and 
of splendid flavour. It has been named 
the Low Junior Berry. It hag received 
an award of merit, and it is thought this 
novelty will have a great future. 
