EDITORIAL. 
The electric trams are running in Ade- , 
laide. 
world. Adelaide lags behind sometimes, 
but when the Queen City of the South 
does something it 
It is the best system in the 
is generally worth 
doing. She is upto date now in every- 
thing, andina few months the whole 
tram sytem will be working. Visitors 
will come to stay, and wandering through 
the parks will be quite as enjoyable as 
any other sight seeing. 
as gay can be. The Cannas are delight- 
The 
parks are roomy, and the great glaring 
They are as gay 
fully picturesque in their setting. 
colours most suitable, to open landscape 
gardening. ! 
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The March issue of THe AUSTRALIAN 
GARDENER is, as usual, full of information 
for everybody interested in production 
from the garden or the field. For flowers 
the early rains will start the diggers going 
with their little forks and spades in the 
front garden. In our Description of 
Flowers may be noticed a reference to 
Candytuft. It is surprising that this 
showy white bloomer is not grown 
more. No flower gives a greater pro- 
fusion of bloom, and none can be used to 
better _ bordering or 
setting off clumps of gay colouring. 
advantage © for 
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The Vegetable Notes are most useful. 
Any handy sort of a man, or woman 
either, should be able to supply their 
kitchen with at least half the vegetables 
required during the year from a very 
small plot of ground. It is really sur-, 
prising what a lot of stuff can be pro- 
duced on a rod of ground with sunshine, 
water, and manure, ; 
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The Orchard articles are also full of 
interest. Particularly we would call 
attention to the fumigation of nursery 
stock, and we would add also the spraying 
of the same. If the young trees are kept 
clean and healthy from the beginning 
orchardists will be sayed an immense 
amount of disheartening labour after-: 
wards. The germs of disease, whetlier, 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
March 1, 1909 
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animal or vegetable, are carried around 
from nurseries to orchards with the 
utmost facility, and all the efforts that 
are put forward to make the trees grow 
will help forward the development of the 
diseases. The overplus of orchard pro- 
duce is a serious mattertogrowers. There 
is far too much waste. At present the 
position is one of waste to all the stuff 
that cannot be sent to market or the jam 
factory. Our articles on canning 
cry tallising fruit are interesting 
instructive in this connection. 
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and 
Poultry raisers will find the articles on 
Diseases in Fowls, Poisonous Weeds, Old 
Hens, and Preparing White Leghorns for 
Exhibition. 3 
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‘Sundry other articles go to make up a 
full and complete number of Tux Avs- 
TRALIAN GARDENER for March. 
and. 
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Please mention this paper. 
A bright little girl who had successfully 
spelled the word ‘that’? was asked by her 
teacher would remain after the ‘t’ had been 
taken away. 
‘Ihe cups and saucers,’ was the prompt 
reply.* ? we fa 
