E. B. COX & Co., Seedsmen, Ete., corner Rundle Street and East Terrace 
November Number of 
1908 
i The Nugstralian Gardener x 
(A Monthly Journal of Floriculture, Horticulture, Agriculture, and Poultry), 
Illustrations — 
Phlox Drummundi Graudiflora 
Tulips 
Miniature Sunflower 
Globosus Fistulosis Sunflower 
Cactus Sunflower 
Florida Havorite Water Melon 
Grecian Cucumber 
Duke of Albany Cucumber 
The Flannel Flower 
Epriortiat. 
The Vegetable Garden— 
Operations for the Month . 
Vegetable Tallow 
CONTAINS— 
Flower Garden— 
Notes for the Month 
The Flannel Flower 
The Orchard— 
Hints on Planting Fruit Trees 
Spraying for Codlin Moth 
Function of Bees in Fruit Trees 
The Farm— 
Diseases of the Skin 
An Odd Agricultural Implement 3 
Burning-off Grass gree 
Cultivation of Legumes 
Miscellaneous Notes 
The Dairy— 
Feeding Milking Herds 
Cow With Four Calves 
The Young Folks— 
Actions and Words 
Conundrums 
Dreams 
The Poultry Yard— 
Rearing Chickens 
Guinea-Fowls 
Fattening Poultry 
Interesting Notes 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Business Novices 
Wir anp Humour 
&e, &e., &e. 
The Tomato 
EDITORIAL. 
The Season. 
‘Tue long drawn out cold wet winter has 
finished up abruptly after a great splash 
of rain. For the plains nothing could 
have been more timely to suit agricul- 
‘turists. To them it means thousands of 
pounds in addition to an already assured 
good harvest. In common with those 
‘who know something from a practical 
‘point of view of the labour and risk and 
-disappointment of wheat, hay, dairy, and 
sheep farming we congratulate these 
producers most sincerely on their good 
fortune. They deserve all they get, and 
a great deal more. There are some low, 
mean spirited people in the world who 
envy farmers when an abundance of good 
things come their way, end would make 
them share their spoil with others who 
know nothing of hard work morning, ° 
noon, and night, always accompanied by 
anxiety regarding the fickleness of 
changing seasons. Eyen in a night a 
farmer may lose half his harvest by a 
thunderstorm, or fire, or some other un- 
looked for visitation of illluck. So that 
when all things combine to secure him a 
just reward with a good harvest, good 
clip, good feed for his dairy we rejoice 
with him, While, however, the splendid 
late rains served the toiler on the plains 
well, the downpour of rain which 
occurred in the Hills districts to- 
wards the end of October was a 
climax of bad fortune to the already 
too long, cold, and wet winter for the 
vegutable growers, Many a good garden 
full of potatoes and peas were washed 
almost bodily away. Whena grower has 
to sit and listen, or lie in bed awake ‘all 
night counting up the chances of his 
vegetable plots while being subject to a 
flood of water, and rises at daylight to 
find his worst fears realised, the people 
who before envy his good luck do not 
now come forward with practical sym- 
pathy in the way of work and money to 
help him out of his trouble, He simply 
has to bear it and grin, and go to work. 
again if he has time and money before 
the season is gone too late for planting, 
The satisfaction he has is in the fore- 
cast that anything he may have left to 
grow will fetch a good price. Then the 
householder grumbles at having to pay so 
dearly for vegetables, and witha wise 
philosophy remarks that in a country 
like this it is shameful to have such 
exorbitant prices for vegetables, 
While the vegetable growers may have 
lost, however, the orchardist will gain, 
for his trees have had a great start for 
their burden of fruit. We have seen 
some lovely pictures of apple trees in the 
hills this season, and those that are 
bearing will throw immense crops of 
fruit under fair average conditions of 
weather, There has been a great lot of 
planting fruit trees this year, and the 
young stuff will have a splendid start. 
Nurserymen who had larger stocks than 
usual of export varieties of apples were 
sold clean out, and yarieties such as 
Cleopatra were not to be obtained at all. 
This means that a lot of new ground has 
been broken up, and the apple industry 
will soon rise to the proportions it 
should in our hills districts, There are 
thousands of acres of ground there that 
would all grow apples instead of scrub 
and as the interest in this business in- 
creases people will realise that South 
Australia could not only grow the finest 
apples in the world but as many as the 
older countries that are yearly making 
handsome incomes out of them. The 
season so far is propitious for fruit 
growers and we wish them all the good 
fortune they deserve. 
