GRECTAN CUCUMBER. 
Potatoes —A «few may be 
planted. Plant only whole potatoes of a 
Use plenty of rotten horse 
TOWSs 
medium size. 
or cow dung. 
Pumpkins.—Sow some seed in  well- 
manured or rich ground. Plants that 
are progressing should be kept pinched 
back to prevent them rambling too 
much. 
Radish.—Sow a little seed from time 
to time and use the plants as quickly as 
they are ready. Old radishes are almost 
useless and indigestible, and should be 
thrown to the pigs. 
Rhubarb.—Sow a little seed in order 
to raise plants to put out next winter or 
early spring, This is a useful plant to 
_ grow, and no garden should be without 
it. 
Sweet Potatoes thrive best!in a warm 
sandy loam. The tubers will readily 
start into growth if Jaid out in a warm 
bed and covered aboat.an inch or two 
with stable dung kept rathermoist. The 
cuttings, or rovted plants, should be 
planted ont in rows. These rows should 
‘be about four feet apart, and the cuttings 
should be planted one foot apart in the 
rows. When the vines are growing, it 
would be well to raise them occasionally 
to prevent them taking root at the 
joints. 
Spinach._Sow a little seed, but very 
little. 
feet. 
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‘Tomato.—Sow seed in such quantity 
as may be required, and plant out from 
the seed bed if any plants are available. 
Keep large plants tied up to some sup- 
port if possible, and the fruit will then 
ripen better and be less liable to rot. 
Turnips.—S ow a little seed in rows. 
Vegetable marrow.—Sow a little seed 
in the same way as recommended for 
cucumber. 
There is a lot to do at this season be- 
sides the sowing of seeds. Crops when 
crowded must be thinned, and weeds kept 
under, and the surface soil should be 
occasionally stirred.. Peas must be 
staked to prevent injury from wind and 
heavy rain. Slugs and snails must be 
kept well under, or much damage will be 
done to seedling plants. 
Vegetable Tallow. 
The Chinese yegetable tallow tree 
grows in the mountainous parts of the 
province of Hankow. “It is found in 
semi-rocky soil at an attitude of 2,500 
heart-shaped leaves turn a brilliant red 
in the autumn. The seed-pods are seen 
; is 
in abundance on the small branches of <2 
the tree, and contain three seeds about 
the s ze of a coffee bean, greyish-white in 
colour. As the autumn advances the 
pods dry up, exposing a cluster of three 
geeds. When picked they are stemmed 
aud made ready for use. They are 
steamed, and the white exterior of the 
seed, which is the vegetable tallow, is 
thus removed. A small brown seed re- 
mains, which is ground in the Chinese 
mill-stone, boiled, made into cakes, and 
placed in a press, and a light-brown oil 
extracted from the kernal. This oil is 
known as ‘Tze-yiu’ or vegetable tallow- 
seed oil, and is used by the natives as a 
burning oil, and also for adulterating 
more valuable oils. The refuse is used 
asa fertiliser. The tallow is collected, 
melted, and put into large tubs, which 
serve asa mould. Blocks of wood are 
put into each cake, to which ropes are 
attached, and serve as handles. The 
vegetable tallow is used by the Chinese 
The tree is of medium size, and its 
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principally in the manufacture of candles 
it being of greater consistency than the 
other oils used for the purpose, and only 
asmall quantity of the white wax is 
needed. The vegetable tallow industry 
of Hancow is of considerable extent. 
The tallow is said to mix readily, and 
European firms find use for large quan- 
tities in the manufacture of soap and 
candles. It sells in the market at from 
27s 6d to 30s per picul of 1331b., and the 
tallow-seed oil is worth a trifle less. Up. 
to Nevember, 1907, nearly 27,000,000Ib. 
of the tallow was exported fram Han- 
kow. The Stillingia is hardly known about 
Adelaide, very yung. 
Owing to its brilliant scarlet foliage in 
the autumn, it is worthy of « place in 
our gardens, Its flowers are not shuwy, 
except when 
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