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  2. How I Keep my Dairy Cool.

    "I most first give you to understand "(writes a New Zealand farmer to the Auckland Weekly Times)" that my dairy is not a grand stone structure, with flagged floor, neither is it built of brick, nor is it dug out of the side of a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 750 words
  3. Plants of New South Wales.

    The plants of this division of the vegetable kingdom have no stamens, pistils, or seeds, and the reproduction is carried on by what are termed spores. The higher orders of these cryptogams, that is such as have true stems inclosing bundles ...

    Article : 2,262 words
  4. Orchards.

    Planting season is now at band, and early planting should be carried out. With apple trees, persons proposing to plant should buy no other than those warranted grafted on blight-proof storks; and as these are now plentiful, there is ...

    Article : 366 words
  5. A Swine Feeding Pen for Corn.

    A convenient corn pen which has been used in a fattening lot for swine is shown in the engraving. It is used for corn fed directly from the field. In the centre of the teed- ing floor four stout forked posts are set at the corners of a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 88 words
  6. HORTICULTURAL ,s-

    It is many years since the autmual months have passed away without the land being well soaked with rain. The showers have only been very slight, and just sufficient to dump the surface of the soil, thereby rendering the ...

    Article : 376 words
  7. Flower Garden.

    It is a pleasurable period in this department, therefore everything should be kept in the most perfect order, and there can scarcely be any excuse why the garden should be deficient of flowers Late-flowering chrysanthemums may ...

    Article : 405 words
  8. Hunter's Hill Horticultural Society.

    The Horticultural Society of Hunter 's Hill held an exhibition of chrysanthemums on Monday evening at the local council-chambers, which was well attended, notwithstanding that the weather was somewhat inclement. A very ...

    Article : 183 words
  9. Asphalting Garden Paths.

    Sir,—Can any of your readers kindly inform me of the best plan to destroy bulbs which accidentally get covered in when old gardens are laid out with asphalt paths? They force the asphalt upwards, and it is a great nuisance ...

    Article : 97 words
  10. Greenhouse, Hothouse, and Bushhouse.

    As a matter of good gardening no glasshouse should be without some form of bearing apparatus, not so much for the purpose of forcing plants as of drying up damp in rainy weather and of assisting the plants on very cold frosty nights. ...

    Article : 395 words
  11. Kitchen Garden.

    As we are virtually launched into the winter, cultivators, no matter where situated, will have to discontinue planting. Kidney beans and crops for seed purposes should be in a fair way towards ripening and preserving for next season's ...

    Article : 772 words
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