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  2. Below the Northern Coast Range.

    The country situated between the Clarence and the Richmond Rivers, and for a distance of nearly seventy miles, calls for no special mention, as it is formed principally of undulating ridges profusely timbered with blue, white, and ...

    Article : 2,140 words
  3. Making Gardens.

    In country districts a great item in this way is the extraction of stumps of gum trees. In many instances the tops have first been felled, leaving the stumps to rot away, with the probability that ere this occurs the ground may be ...

    Article : 182 words
  4. Garden Notes.

    Mr. Wooff writes us that at the end of June, in Orange, he handsome Clianthus Dampieri is still in its prime. Considering that locality to be famous for wintry weather while we are enjoying genial autumn, it ...

    Article : 406 words
  5. Sowing Flower Seeds.

    A correspondent, signing himself "Gardener," asks whether the present is the proper time to sow Flower Seeds? Around Sydney and in all warm parts Flower Seeds may te sown with great advantage, either in nicely prepared ...

    Article : 879 words
  6. Agricultural Items.

    The point system of judging has been extended to oranges in America. A Florida paper called the Sun ami Press gives the points of a winning orange called the Magnum Bonum as under:— "Size, 9; smoothness of skin, 8; ...

    Article : 1,751 words
  7. Horticulture.

    These highly ornamental leaved plants are one of the greatest troubles our Amateur friends have to contend with. To see them in all their glory during last summer, in the carpet bedding arrangements and in the Garden Palace ...

    Article : 367 words
  8. The Apple Blight.

    Some years ago s Mr. Treen, of Victoria, wrote an essay on this subject, and went so far in his researches as to have the bark and wood of blight-proof and non-blight varieties analyzed. The result, if we remember rightly, was that ...

    Article : 207 words
  9. Sour Hay.

    In Professor Wrightson'B report on the agriculture of the Austro-Hungarian empire appears the following passage (in the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society, 1874. No. xx. p. 351):—"The system of making sour hay ...

    Article : 998 words
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