EE. B. COX & Co., Seedsmen, Ete., corner Rundle Street and East Terrace 
December Number of 
1908 
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(A Monthly Journal of Floriculture, Horticulture, Agriculture, and Poultry), 
Illustrations— 
Cineria Hybrida Grandiflora 
Group of Bouvardias 
Newest Hybrids Chrysanthemum 
Blue Water Lily 
Group of Daffodils 
Group of Narcissus 
Giant Auvergne Cabbage 
Brown Spanish Onion 
Canadian Wonder French Bean 
Rollisson’s Telegraph Cucumber 
Large White-ribbed Sea Kale Beet 
Prickly Spinach 
Sandringham Celery 
&e, &e., &. 
EDITORIAL. 
CONTAINS— 
The Vegetable Garden— 
Operations for the Month 
The Rubbish Heap 
Capsicum 
Celery 
Flower Garden— 
Notes for the Month 
Daffodils — 
The Orechard— 
Fruit Buds 
Automobile Walnut Gatherer 
Antiquity of the Apple 
The Prickly Pear 
Notes on Mulching 
The Farmer’s Orchard 
The Farm— 
Diseases of the Skin 
Sheep for Farmers 
Miscellaneous: ltems 
The Dairy— 
Milk and Death 
Cow’s Huge Yield of Milk 
News and Notes 
The Young Folks— 
In the Kitchen Garden 
Conundrums 
Rhymes for Cards and Other Presents 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Wir anv Humour 
The Poultry Yard— 
Diseases of Fowls 
How to Increase Egg Production 
Poultry Brevities 
Business Notices 
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EDITORIAL. 
GaRDENER” for 
“Tur AUSTRALIAN 
December supplies its numerous readers 
with a large amount of practical and 
interesting matter. Special care has 
een taken in compiling the pages 
devoted to instructions for the work to 
be enacted in December, both in the 
vegetable and flower garden. As the dry 
days of summer appear, amateur 
yegetable growers will find it to their 
own particular advantage to note closely 
the order of things if they wish to keep 
the kitchen well supplied with dainty 
foods for hot weather. 
devoted a page to the cultivation. history, 
and various uses of the indispensible 
celery plant. The sun’s scorching heat 
is sure to bring many disappointments 
+o those who endeayour to beautify their 
homes by the cultivation of flowers, but 
while these are always to be reckoned 
with there are flowers that bloom and 
We have also 
thrive under the fiercest rays of the sun 
and revel in heat with proper attention, 
and these are dealt with under the head 
of “* Notes for the Month,” together with 
seasonable illustrations. The flower we 
have specially dealt with in this issue is 
the Daffodil, the most popular of all 
English plants, seeds of which may be 
planted at once. The farmer, dairy- 
man and orchardisi will find that they 
are by no means forgotten in this num- 
ber. The orchard is just now beginning 
to return to the laborers their vwell- 
earned fruit, and the demand for fruit- 
pickers exceeds the supply in the Hills 
districts. ‘The cherry crop this year is 
a large one, and this fruit 
is already being retailed here at one 
penny per lb., which, by-the-way, does 
not speak highly of the grower’s renum- 
eration. In view of Dr. Johnson’s 
questions in the City Council last week 
re pasteurisation of milk in Adelaide, the 
article entitled ‘‘ Milk and Death” will 
be read with interest. Pouliry-keepers 
find food for thought in the suggestions 
on “ How to Increase Egg Production” 
by Mr. Brooks, of Clarendon. 
The increased demand on our space 
and our rapidly increasing circulation has 
caused the “ Australian Gardener’ to 
make phenomenal growth during the last 
twelve months—from 20 to 44 pages; and 
the management are at present consider— 
ing a further enlargement of this journal: 
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