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Salsify and Srcozonera. 
Salsify and {Scorzonera.—These two 
vegetables require the same treatment. 
Salsify, when well grown, should be crisp 
and white in flesh, like the Parsnip, and 
it requires a deep, rich, and well-pulverised 
soil that has been well manured for some 
other crop the previous year. The seed 
should be sown during April and May, 
in drills drawn 1 foot apart, andit should 
be dropped into them thinly. After the 
plants have appeared above ground they 
should be thinned in the rows at about 9 
inches apart from each other, and the 
ground should be kept 
stirred and thoroughly clean all through 
the following summer. The return of 
this attention will be the production of a 
good crop of long, clean straight roots, 
often as large as a moderate size Surrey 
Although a useful and excellent 
well surface- 
_ Carrot. 
vegetable that has been long known and 
used in this country, it is not much 
cultivated. It is admirable served up to 
table, with white sauce, throughout the 
autumn and winter. Itis one of the 
miost valuable substitutes for the potato 
anda heavy and weighty crop can to 
produced from any kind of soil. <A few 
rows sown in an odd corner will produce 
many a good dish of wholesome food 
throughout the winter. When lifting 
the roots care should be taken not to 
injure then in any way, as they quickly 
bleed, and the loss of flavour to the root is 
the result, Scorzonera isgrown for the 
“ root, asin the case of Salsify, but the 
root has a different appearance, inasmuch 
as it grows longer and more slender than 
Salsify. It is also more apt torun to 
seed. They are both worked in the 
“same way, and the mode of culture recom- 
mended fer Salsify will answer perfectly 
for Scorzonera. 
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“ Australian Gardener” Printing Works, 
Scrymgour’s Buildings, 20 Waymouth 
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Send us along a trial order. 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
News and Notes. 
Ripe strawberries were quoted at 2/6 
per ounce or £2 per pound in England 
when the last mail left. 
If you save your own seed be sure and 
save only the best specimens of each 
kind. Seed selection is a highly impor- 
tant part of successful crop production. 
seevens eee censarces 
Potatoes and other vegetables should 
be covered from the light, They turn 
green and acquire an acid, unpleasant 
taste where the light strikes them for 
any length of time. 
Cee eee eee ree reetens on 
Borse radish is often difficult to get 
rid of in the garden. Dig it out and 
keep digging it out; then sow a crop that 
will smother out what is left of it—such 
a crop as clover, turnips, peas, and 
vetches. 
Soil infested with slugs, wire-worms, 
or grubs should be frequently loosened a 
few inches to give the birds a chance to 
get at these pests. Soot and lime are 
effective remedies against these pests. 
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The large cash returns from the potato 
crop are not only sufficient to pay for 
the manure or fertiliser used in its pro- 
duction, but in addition may be charged 
with a balance of plant food left in the 
ground enough to ensure a heavy yield 
of succeeding crops of the rotation. 
SOs ree eereeseeseesses 
In order to hasten any garden crop to 
maturity mulch the plants with fresh 
droppings from the cow yard by putting 
it in some vessel, and then adding 
enotigh water to make it thin enough to 
pour easily. Make a little cup around 
the plants or a trench alongside the row, 
and pour into this so as to prevent the 
liquid getting right on the plants, 
“* Australian 
6d. 
We post the 
Gardener” direct for 3s. 
per annum, 
. batteries used for bells or te'ephones. 
May, 1910. 
Brisbane’s New Electric 
Clock. 
We are indebted to Mr. Frank Wright, 
of the Central State Electric Coy., £0 
Waymouth Street, Adelaide agents for 
the Synchronome Electral Company, for 
the following particulars anent Brisbane’s 
latest enterprise. The clock is made on 
the synchronome principle, and is actuated 
in conjunction with the other dial through- 
out the building, from the synchronome 
controller, giving electrical impulses every 
half minute. Neither the controller nor 
any of the ordinary dials requires any 
winding whatever, the electral current 
being required obtained from the ordinary 
In 
the case of the post office clock, the hands 
are exposed to the weather, as in most 
turret clocks. The clock has 2 dials 5 ft. 
in diameter. Although the timing is 
given from the controller, the electric 
current neoessary for the dial itself ig 
obtained from the electric light mains, 
but as that could not be utilised to ad- 
vantage operating every half minute, the 
actual movement of the hands is controlled 
by asmall weight, which is wound every 
hour by an electric motor, the winding 
operation taking about 5 to 6 seconds to 
complete. The cost of the total con. 
sumption of current for the twelve months 
amounts to about 5s., thus being consider- 
ably less cost than labour can be obtained 
to wind it once a week. Tho latest in- 
stallation fitted on the synchronome 
system in England is at the new Children’s 
Infirmary, at Carshalton, Surrey. This 
institution consists of no fewer than 45 
separate buildings, and covers an area of 
186 acres. The clock installation consists 
of 140 dials and one controller, the wiring 
being of the simplest kind, one single 
wire being taken in a single series through 
out the whole. The small amount of 
electrical energy required is shown when 
it is mentioned that the whole battery is 
maintained for three years for £5. One 
is bound to admit that electric{ty in the 
service of man must distinguish itself in 
its application to horology. 
