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May, 1910. 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
A Wiew of the Ballarat Gardens, Victoria. 
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| Flower Garden: 
Notes for the Month. 
' The cottager should be as busy as a bee 
with his little front garden and also the 
back area, Digging, trenching, remodel- 
ling, hoeing, raking, and manuring makes 
plenty of work this month. The dying 
glories of the summer blooms have now 
to be removed and the litter stowed away 
in the manure pit to make Jeaf mould, and 
if every barrow load of stuff is covered 
with scrapings the stuff to be taken ont 
later, on will do well for top dressing, 
The exhausted stuff from annuals and 
biennials and deciduous trees is thus ro- 
turned again to enrich the exhausted soil: 
The manure pit is a great institution in 
any garden. Put Cowh in some odd 
corner itis made the repository for all 
refuse, and having a place to put ‘stuff 
away conveniently is always an induce- 
ment to keep the garden clean, Dahlias 
and Cannas have exhausted their beauties 
and may, be cut down a little later on to 
facilitate removal after which the ground 
should be turned up and left for a while, 
= Planting Out. — 
Deciduous trees and shrubs may be 
planted out this month, and care should 
be exercised in setting them in places 
whore they’ may be allowed free growth 
without hiding those of humbler aspir- 
ations, but of brighter bloom. It is a 
common experience for gardeners to look 
at some favorite shrub and every time 
wish it had been put in somewhere else. 
A little forethought will prevent this 
provocation, ‘he variegated evergreens 
give a good tint of colouring to the 
guden during tho dull winter months 
such us the golden leayed Oleanders 
Abnutillons, Eleagnus, Coprosma, Euony- 
mous, Pittosporum, Deeringia, a-d for 
deciduons trees the Maples (Hngland and 
Japanese), Pyrus, Berberis, Pruvis pis- 
sardi, and the Rhuses. The Maples, 
however, will only do in the higher al- 
titudes, 
-— Bulbs, — 
We should soon sec the bulbs putting 
up their heads, and all the Narcissus 
tribe will be creating the annual excite- 
ment amongst bulb lovers. Anemones 
Ranunculi, Iris, Liliums, Gladoli, Txias, 
Snowdakes, Lachenallias, Watsonias, 
Tulips, Babianas, Amaryllids all gather 
to make a list quite equal to the suminer 
annuals. Although they will be now 
putting up the first leaves after an ealy 
planting, the bulbs may still be put in for 
later flowering. Perennial Phlox may bo 
divided, We do not think we have seen 
Phlox to better advantage than this 
season, The Adelaide Botanical Gardens 
show was, and is now, simply lovely in 
Phlox, 
