THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
May 1, 1909 
Don’t Read This Unless You Like Musice. 
R, CORRELL, Music Seller. 
Brass Band Instruments & Brass Band Musie. 
SOLE AGENT FOR 
BOOSEY & CO.’s World-famous Brass Band 
Instruments, with Patent Compensating Pistons 
WRITE FOR PRICE LIST. 
Importer of Violins, Piccolos, Mandolins, Guitars, etc, and Brass Band Instruments. 
By importing direct from the very best manufacturers for cash, R, Correll is enabled to sell the best quality Strings, Instru- 
ments, etc., at the lowest possible price consistent with quality. Violins from 10s to £60. Violin Outfits, 25s., 30s.. 35s, 40s. 
and up to £70. Violas from 50s,, Violoncellos from 45s., 
Piccolos 1s., 2s., 2s. 6d., and with Tuning Slide and extra ferrule 3s. 6d., . 
4s, 6d., and 5s. 6d., B-flat Fife 2s. 6d., 3s., 4s, 6d., and 5s. 6d. At the Public Schools’ Contest, First Prize was won by the School 
using Flutes supplied by R. Correll. 
lf you are thinking of forming a Band or an Orchestra, consult R. Correl!, who will be pleased to assist you. Brass Band 
Instruments Repaired. All the latest Songs, Song and Dance Annuals, etc., etc. 
Corner Flinders and Hyde Streets, Adelaide. 
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Lettuce Juice. 
The soporific properties of the garden 
lettuce were known in the earliest ages. 
‘Galen used to eat lettuce in the evening 
as a remedy for wakefulness at night, and 
most people find that it induces sleep. 
Lactucarium is the inspissated juice of 
the garden lettuce, and has the color and, 
in some measure, the taste and odour of 
opium, but no morphia has yet been 
obtained from it, and its narcotic 
principle is therefore undiscovered. lts- 
analysis is said to prove it to contain a 
large proportion of caouichouc, as much - 
as 22 parts in 50. Its medicinal effects. 
are very nearly the same as those of 
opium, but it is undoubtedly much 
milder in its operation, and may conse- 
quently be used in cough and con- 
sumption, and in other cases where 
opium from its stimulating effects cannot 
bo borne — ‘Faulding’s Medical and 
Home Journal,’ 
Lettuce Running to Seed. 
During the late hot weather it has 
been difficult to grow good cabbage- 
hearted lettuce, owing to its tendency in 
the height of summer to run to seed, A 
contemporary says that although this 
mishap cannot be wholly prevented, 
everyone may, by following the practice 
here given, bring about an essential 
improvent in his stock. The chief 
condition is to cultivate only such 
varieties as are found to succeed in the 
district. When the plant begins to form. 
hearts, the finest of these should be 
marked throughout the bed, and as soon_ 
as these marked plants begin to shoot 
they should be pulled up for use, and 
this practice is to be persisted in till only 
so many plants remain in the bed as will 
suffice for affording a crop of seed.. By 
this process of selection, carried on for 
some years, plants may be raised which 
will fully resist the effects of hot 
weather. 
- Received. 
Rumsgy’s Seep Caratoave. — The 
latest catalogue of this huge mail order 
firm is to hand, and contains many 
novelties for the present year. We will 
enumerate a few:—The LHarly Pride 
Tomato, which is claimed to be a beauti- 
ful pink in color (instead of red) and of 
Cauliflower, Brittle Ice Lettuce 
superior favor, a new scarlet Tomato 
named Livingston’s Hummer, Fordhook 
Bush Lima Bean, Epicure Climbing 
Bean, Danish Prize Brussels Sprouts, 
Lucullus Spinach Beet, Dry Weather 
and 
Rumsey’s Giant Round Pod Bean. ~ 
Amongst the novelties in flowers is men: 
tioned a new tace of gigantic “ Orchid 
flowered’ Sweet Peas, seedlings of 
Countess Spencer. The largest in size 
of all Sweet Peas, this distinct type is. 
claimed to be a wonderfully beautiful 
new departure and embraces the most 
exquisite shades of pink, orange, salmon. 
and rose, Of the ‘King Edward’ 
Spencer variety it is said: ‘The enor 
mous flowers come almost uniformly 
wayed, and crinkled to a pronounced 
degree, the standard measures from 14 
inch to 2 inches across by 1} inches deep, 
the wings are 1% inches wide by 1} inches 
high. The standard is a deep red car- 
mine scarlet of glossy effect. ‘he wings 
are also carmine and scarlet, and on the 
reverse side a deep rosy carmine. Stems 
12 to 15 inches long, with four blooms. | 
NS 
Robert Hill, 
Chaff and Grain Merchant, 
64 CURRIE STREET, Adelaide. — 
Bran, Pollard, Oats, Wheat 
Chick Meal, and all kinds of 
Poultry Food ; 
AT LOWEST MARKED RATES. 
Telephone 1250. 
