E. B. COX & Co., Seedsmen, Etc., corner Rundle Street and East Terraces 
January Number of 
1909 
(A Monthly Journal of Floriculture, Horticulture, Agriculture, and Poultry), 
Illustrations — 
Neapolian Maize 
Petunia 
Gomphocarpus Arborescens 
Variegated Japanese Hops 
Ipomoea Sanguinea 
_ Leedsii—Maggie May Daffodil 
Epriortrat. 
The Vegetable Garden— 
Operations for the Month 
Pomato or Tomato, which ? 
Flower Garden— 
Notes for the Month 
Blue Roses 
Flowers cure Insanity 
Annuals and Biennals 
About Daffodils 
New Cineraria— Matador 
EDITORIAL. 
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Ix common with all others of the com- 
munity, the readers of “The Australian 
Gardener” rejoice at the prospect of 
electric cars in the city of Adelaide and 
suburbs, When the city makes a move 
the country goes with it, and what is good 
for one is good for both. The booming 
of the city is catching on, and the next 
boom will be in land. Already the 
country has had a great rise, and a large 
are. changed hands during the last two 
years at greatly advanced prices. This is 
still going on, and little wonder, too, for 
one season with average luck covers at’ 
least half the purchase money of the 
land. Garden property is a fancy sort of 
holding at present. The prices paid for 
garden land is nearly double what it was 
a few years ago. The value of the land 
has increased according to the purchasing _ 
‘power of consumers. Many consumers 
are in a better position now to buy 
gardeu produce which they would pre- 
viously have done without, 
CONTAINS— 
The Orehard— 
Fruit Tree Stocks 
A Codlin Moth Parasite 
Bee-Culture— 
Advice to Beginners 
The Farm— 
Diseases of the Skin : 
The World’s Biggest Farm 
Interesting Wheat- Growing 
Clipping Horses 
Influence of Fertilizers upon Wheat ~ 
Miscellaneous Items 
The Wheat Harvest 
The Dairy— 
The Cape Tulip 
Testing Dairy Cows 
Flies in the Dairy 
Preservation of Milk 
The garden producer has a very up and 
down market to deal with. In fact one 
of the chief factors in determining the 
market is the weather. November was a 
record month for heat, and December for 
dryness. Nobody realised this more 
fully than the strawberry growers. The 
strawberry season opened up beautifully, 
and the fruit brought to the market in 
the early part of the picking was the 
finest we have seen. The Margarcts 
came on beautifully with fine rich berries 
pushed on by the early Gandy plant, 
which is now set out with the Margarets ~ 
to get early fruit. The two did well 
together, and most of the money this 
season was made out of these two 
varieties. The hot weather came on 
apace and ripened up the Arthurs, but 
beat the pickers, who soon found that 
the absence of an inch of rain meant the 
ripening of fruit before it could develop; 
and so they were cut out of the market, 
The second crop went with tke tail end 
of the first. Tons of strawberries were 
lost this season through the lack of 
rain, 
News and Notes 
The Poultry Yard— 
Diseases of Fowls 
Interesting Statistics 
Preparing Fowls for Show 
Cold Storage of Eges 
Poultry Brevities 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
The Young Folks— 
Marvels of Pond Life 
Conundrums 
Trade Dinners 
From Rags to Regs 
The Penny 
&e, &., &. 
The Lay of the Post Cart 
Wir anp Humour 
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Peas were much in the same position 
as strawberries. The plains crop came 
all in a heap and caused a slump, but a 
sudden rise came because the hills growers 
had no rain to back up the supplies. A 
bad year for peas, except for the favored 
few who can irrigate and keep up a 
rotation of crops. : 
The cherry-growers had a good innings, 
but the fruit was not what it would have 
been had the heat wave hung off a bit. 
The fruit ripened too quickly, before it 
had time to develop into the fine sample 
we so frequently see in the Adelaide 
market. 
Tomato-growers are not heard com- 
plaining because the weather suits them 
nicely, and we now have the luscious 
vegetable on the market at a reasonable 
price. - 
Apples and pears are coming on fast, 
although the exporters are not expecting 
so much that they will not be able to 
handle them comfortably. It is to be 
hoped that the growers will take to heart 
the good advice given from the markets 
abroad, which means that if they are 
going to hold price against the active 
competitors from America they will have 
to do it on quality and grading. Growers 
must realise that the best is the only 
quality worth growing, ; 
The recent rains will do inealoulables 
good to the gardens and orchards, 
