January 1, 1909 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 9 
IPOMGA SANGUINEA. 
The Ipomoeas are beautiful climbers ; 
covering trellises, fences, &c. 
valuable for 
VARIEGATED JAPANESE HOPS. 
the reception of the bulbs later should 
be prepared soon. In very poor dry 
soils a dressing of cow manure may be 
dug deeply into the beds or patches, and 
a little bone-dust worked through the 
soil nearer the surface, 
Many roses will cast their leaves ab our 
this time of the year, especially if the 
weather is dry. They may be pruned 
back, just as if it were winter or early 
spring, and the plants wiil igasalitee good 
flowers in the autumn. This is a good 
time for budding roses, if it be desired to 
increase the stock of plants, Take buds 
from those it is desired to propagate, and 
insert in a seedling briarstock, Insome 
cases, with Marechal Neil for instance, 
the Banksia can be employed, Tea roses 
judiciously pruned at this season will be 
encouraged to produce better blooms in 
the autumn. Much of this pruning can 
be done when the flowers are cut if care 
is taken always to cut back to a strong 
outside bud. Many plants can be 
induced to bloom continually if they are 
occasionally sheaved over. It is generally 
easy to see when this method wili answer 
-by the fresh growth that is always found 
springing up from the base. Coreopsis 
and antirrhiniums can be thus dealt 
with, ae 
Cuttings can now be taken of yerbenas 
phloxes, antirrhiniums, pentstemons 
lantanas, pelargoniums, petunias, and 
the side shoots of pansies and hollyhocks. 
Choose nice short-pointed wood for 
cuttings. 
Sow Balsam, Calceolaria, Cineraria, 
Sow in July or August in pans in a slight heat, either in a 
hot-bed or greenhouse, and, when strong enough, prick out 
into a cool frame, where they may get hardened and well, 
established for transplanting into their blooming quarters 
in September ; or they may be sown in the open. during 
September and October. 
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Primula, 
Cyclamen, Begonias and 
and Gloxina. 
Carnations and verbenas can be 
layered now to increase them, 
Tf seed vessels are to be saved they 
must be carefully watched as the ripening 
Season approaches, but if a prolonged 
period of bloom is desired the plants 
should be relieved of all dead flowers, 
Remove the dead leayes of bulbs as 
they dry up, but do not cut them of 
whilst they are in a green state. I¢ 
would be well to put in two or three 
sticks around the bulbs to prevent 
them being destroyed when digging up 
the garden. Examine bulbs that aro 
lifted and see they are not damp, or 
they will soon become mouldy and 
injured. 
' Chrysanthemums 
will need good 
“supplies of water, and also weak liquid 
manure. The plants had better be well 
mulched with farmyard manure. 
Small plants—cowslips, daisies, poly- 
anthus, &c.—if allowed to remain in the 
garden fully exposed to the hot sun, will 
probably die, They had better be 
watered, and removed to a cool, shady 
